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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 80
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Doc Gamble. [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
Parker Fennelly [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
Bad sign of a prior time [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
3-19 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Marla's [removed] [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:02:12 -0500
From: Rentingnow@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Doc Gamble.
If one thinks about the medical profession both in the 40's and now, there
is a perfectly logical reason why Doc Gamble would stop in to Fibbers house.
Imagine what office and hospital practice would be like in the 30's and
40's. There was no specialists or very few unless one lived in the big
cities.
I grew up in Powell Wyoming in the 40's listening to Mutual on KPOW and
everything else on KGHL in Billings Montana. Every physician was expected
to do
everything from deliver babies, to fix broken bones and remove appendix.
The
only antibiotics were the sulfa drugs. The only drug which could be used
for TB, which at the turn of the century killed 25% of the population. was
Streptomycin. He didn't have very many medicines to really take care of his
patients; no penicillin or tetracycline for the usual illness. No Isoniaside
(INH) or Rifibutin for TB.
Effectively treat hypertension? Forget about it. FDR was a good example.
Now imagine at the end of the day you want an outlet for the frustration.
What better outlook than to stop by and see Fibber, the town crank and weirdo
and exchange insults.
What relief; what joy!
He could say to Fibber what he wanted. He couldn't say to his patients what
he thought, but he could Fibber. Then he could go home if not happy at
least, decompressed. No worry about beating the wife or the kids. No worry
about
drinking too much. Just settle in for supper, unless, of course, he was
called
out again for a house call.
Need relief?
Just stop by 21 Wistful Vista and sling some arrows at Fibber.
But on the other side, Jim Jordan had a significant contact with the medical
profession. Marian had a number of illness and for an extended period, I
think over a year, she was out of the program. The reason I heard on a BBC
program was mental illness. He would have talked to a lot of physicians
during
this time.
Jim Jordan had his frustrations with the medical profession and undoubtedly
enjoyed the exchange of insults as Fibber with Doc Gamble, a fictional
representation of the medical profession.
Larry Moore
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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:51:24 -0500
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Parker Fennelly
A. Joseph Ross commented on Parker Fennelly.
He was one of the Allen's Alley people. "Howdy, Bub!" with the New England
accent. He was also one of the main characters on "Snow Village Sketches."
If radio needed an old-timer with a New England accent, Parker Fennelly was
the one to get! The program ran on and off from 1936 to 1946, on NBC and
Mutual.
Ted Kneebone. OTR website: [removed]
Democrats: [removed]
1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401 / 605-226-3344
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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:12:35 -0500
From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Bad sign of a prior time
I was listening to a recording of an old Tarzan radio show--I believe it was
from the first incarnation of the show, the one from 1932. At one point,
one of the characters refers to an African native as a dumb (insert "n" word
here.) I suppose that was acceptable then, but I don't recall ever hearing
that word used on any other show I've ever heard.
I know later network censorship disallowed lots of words and references--was
that one of them?
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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:18:15 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-19 births/deaths
March 19th births
03-19-1889 - George L. "Doc" Rockwell - Providence, RI - d. 3-3-1978
comedian: "Camel Pleasure Hour"
03-19-1890 - Gayne Whitman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1958
actor, announcer: Frank Chandler "Chandu the Magician"; "Cavalcade of
America"
03-19-1891 - Earl Warren - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-9-1974
governor, supreme court justice: "Living 1948"; "Meet the Press"
03-19-1892 - James Van Fleet - Coytesville, NJ - d. 9-24-1992
4 star army general: "A Tribute to Jack Benny"
03-19-1900 - Frank Chapman - d. 7-xx-1966
singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
03-19-1907 - Kent Smith - NYC - d. 4-23-1985
actor: "NBC University Theatre of the Air";"Radio Reader's Digest"
03-19-1909 - Louis Hayward - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 2-21-1985
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "This
Is My Best"
03-19-1912 - Russ Case - Hamburg, IA - d. 10-10-1964
orchestra leader: "On a Sunday Afternoon"; "Peggy Lee Show"; "Your
Hit Parade"
03-19-1916 - Eric Christmas - London, England - d. 7-22-2000
actor: "CBC Wednesday Night"
03-19-1916 - Irving Wallace - Chicago, IL - d. 6-29-1990
writer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
03-19-1919 - Alfred Apaka - Honolulu, HI - d. 1-30-1960
vocalist: "Hawaii Calls"
03-19-1923 - Gordon Connell - Berkeley, CA
actor: Billy Sherwood "Hawthorne House"
03-19-1923 - Pamela Britton - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-18-1974
actress: "Luncheon at Sardi's"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-19-1927 - Richie Ashburn - Tilden, NE - d. 9-9-1997
baseball hall of famer, sportscaster: "Tops In Sports"; "Philadelphia
Phillies Play by Play"
03-19-1933 - Phyllis Newman - Jersey City, NJ
actress: "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Tonight at 9:30"
05-17-1906 - Carl McIntire - Ypsilanti, MI - d. 03-19-2002
evangelist: "Twentieth Century Reformation Hour"
March 19th deaths
01-16-1895 - Irene Bordoni - Ajaccio, Crosica, France - d. 3-19-1953
singer: "The Coty Playgirl"
04-18-1913 - Al Hodge - Ravenna, OH - d. 3-19-1979
actor: Britt Reid/Green Hornet "Green Hornet"; "Columbia Workshop"
04-25-1887 - Charles E. Fuller - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-19-1968
preacher: "Old Fashioned Revival Hour"; "Heart to Heart"
05-14-1868 - "Big Bill" Thompson - Boston, MA - d. 3-19-1944
mayor of chicago: "The March of Time"
08-28-1900 - Diana Bourbon - NYC - d. 3-19-1978
producer, director: :Double or Nothing"; "Life Begins"
09-01-1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1950
author: Creator of Tarzan
09-09-1908 - Ed Prentiss - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1992
actor: Red Albright/Captain Midnight "Captain Midnight"; Ned Holden
"The Guiding Light"
12-07-1909 - Arch Oboler - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1987
writer: 'Lights Out"; "Adam and Eve skit on Bergen/McCarthy"
12-13-1913 - Jimmy Carroll - NYC - d. 3-19-1972
singer: "Pot O' Gold"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:10:08 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Marla's [removed]
I got word yesterday from Lee Slosberg that his mother has been
released from Park Terrace Care Center and has returned to her
apartment in Forest Hills, NY after approximately 5 months of
rehabilitation for her serious head injury last October.
Marla Slosberg, as most Digesters know, is the daughter of OTR great,
Charlie Cantor. She has been attending the FOTR convention in Newark
for several years, is well known in the vintage radio community and is
a member of the Metropolitan Washington Old Time Radio Club.
Her communication skills have improved remarkably under her physical
therapy and her memory improves daily. She is creating a bulletin
board of all the photos and cards she has received from her OTR friends
in the past several months. Both she and Lee want to express their
sincere thanks for all the support and encouragement she has received
from the members of the radio hobby throughout the country.
I spoke to her today on the telephone and she sounds relatively strong
and confident. At the present time, she will not be using her email and
she would prefer the number of personal phone calls be limited so she
can continue to rest, recover, and rejuvenate her body and spirits.
However, all cards, notes of support, (and photographs of the senders)
are very much appreciated and she looks forward to every one.
Mail can reach her at: 70-20 108th Street, Apt #C, Forest Hills, NY
11375.
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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