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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2016 : Issue 24
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      WOTW and Travel From Mars             [ skallisjr@[removed] ]
      Answer for Dick Backus <rbackus22@ao  [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]

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    Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 20:13:06 -0400
    From: skallisjr@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  WOTW and Travel From Mars

    The discussion of time compression seems to be focusing in on the time
    involved from when the explosions were first sighted on Mars until the
    time the Martian cylinder landed at Grovers Mills, NJ.  A point being
    that the spacecraft were described as projectiles, and with even current
    technology, most of an interplanetary mission has the spacecraft
    coasting, using purely ballistic influences.
    Avoiding an in-depth discussion of orbital mechanics, which would bore
    most to tears, such an event would take a long time: the path using a
    minimum expenditure of energy, called a Hohmann orbit, would take roughly
    9 months Mars to Earth or vice versa.  When H. G. Wells wrote the
    original story, a "Space Gun" seemed the only way to go between planets,
    and that was adapted for the Mercury Theater production.
    The only part of the WOTW broadcast that "scared America" was the section
    that took place after the "landing," and according to what I've heard(I
    was alive, but not yet listening to radio back then) and read, those who
    got scared tuned in late to the show, for the most part.
    For a show presented as occurring in real time, WOTW probably had the
    most significant time compression.  Other shows, for the most part, had
    any time bridge explained by a bridge, usually narration.

    Stephen A., Jr.

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    Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 20:14:34 -0400
    From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
    To: Old-Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Answer for Dick Backus <rbackus22@[removed]; ]

    Hi: I read about your wondering about Cathy & Elliot Lewis. You I
    believe had the right idea but the wrong name of the program. I think
    you want "On Stage" It was their program from 1/1/53 until 9/30/54 and
    there were 78 programs. Using  the DUNNING  BOOK [OLD EDITION 1976 ]
    PAGE 446, AND THE 1998 EDITION PAGE 512.
    Eliot Lewis had a busy career appearing in 1172 programs and Cathy on
    423 . I guess he had a good income.

    Hope I've been of help,
    Frank McGurn
    McHenry, Illinois 60050

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