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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 495

Table Of Contents: 

	 CANADIAN VOICE OF DOOM
	 W9FJL: Mrs. Kalabash
	 Can anyone help?
	 W9FJL: Mrs. Kalabash
	 Voice of Doom
	 Re: Mrs. Calabash
	 Season's Greetings
	 Re: Voice of Doom

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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 01:30:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "John R. Pellatt" <bs206@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: CANADIAN VOICE OF DOOM
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In Canada, of course, the VOICE OF DOOM was CBC newscaster Lorne Greene 
(later Pa Cartwright on BONANZA). His dramatic style and flair brought an 
urgency and doom ladden aura to those wartime broadcasts filled with such 
dire reports. Apparently when he ad libbed a line like "There's a lot of 
news tonight and most of it is good" he was reprimanded by CBC officials 
but greatly appreciated for his humanity by his listeners. His importance 
to CBC Radio wartime news reporting is symbolized in the current CBC 
Museum wartime display at the Broadcast Centre in Toronto. It is Lorne 
Greene's likeness that is on display in the wartime mock up of a studio. 
Very few visitors seem unsurprised to see him there!

John Pellatt (bs206@[removed]) TORONTO

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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 04:40:43 -0500 (EST)
From: tgm@[removed] (Thomas G. McWilliams)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: W9FJL: Mrs. Kalabash
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Dick wrote:
> Was listening to an old Jimmy  Durante Christmas show and cannot remember
> if the identity of Mrs. Kalabash of "Goodnight Mrs. Kalabash-where ever
> you are"  fame was ever identified as being a real person or just a long
> standing gimmick.

No, it wasn't a gimmick. It was a reference to Durante's first wife who
died prematurely. That's all I know. I would be interested if someone
could flesh this story out.

Thomas  (ARS KI4N)

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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 10:30:46 -0500
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Can anyone help?
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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I got this message at my web site. Can anyone help?  Please reply directly
to the writer:

>I am a published author who needs to obtain permission to reprint comedy
>material by George Burns and Abbott and Costello. Can you help me find their
>agencies or who handles their estates? Thank you for anything you can do! My
>address: danlrob@[removed]
>

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Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 18:34:49 EST
From: w9fjl@[removed] (RICHARD S. FISHER)
To: otr-request@[removed]
Subject: W9FJL: Mrs. Kalabash
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Richard S. Fisher
Amateur Radio Station W8AM
2529 Concordgreen Dr.
Cincinnati, Oh. 45244

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From: W9FJL
To: airwaves@[removed]
Subject: Mrs. Kalabash
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 22:55:48 PST
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Was listening to an old Jimmy  Durante Christmas show and cannot remember
if the identity of Mrs. Kalabash of "Goodnight Mrs. Kalabash-where ever
you are"  fame was ever identified as being a real person or just a long
standing gimmick.

Thanks for any help.

Dick

Richard S. Fisher
Amateur Radio Station W8AM
2529 Concordgreen Dr.
Cincinnati, Oh. 45244
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Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 21:45:12 +0000
From: sterling@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Voice of Doom
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You'll probably have Canadians all over the digest like white on rice 
over this one. During the early days of WW 2, when most of the news 
was bad from the battle fronts, the Canadian National News on Radio 
every night was read by Lorne Green.  The sonorous voice reporting 
another battle and more territoy lost, the retreat from Dunkirk, the 
fall of Paris etc etc earned him hte name "The Voice of Doom".  
That's all he had to report.


   10-Q
Dwayne Johns
(aka) Keith Sterling

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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 13:06:38 -0500
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Mrs. Calabash
Message-ID: <961222130637_1620225278@[removed]>

There are many versions of who Mrs. Calabash is. My favorite is that Mrs.
Calabash was Jimmy Durante's late wife.

BILL KNOWLTON: "BLUEGRASS RAMBLE", WCNY-FM, SYRACUSE NY

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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 13:06:50 -0500
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: billj@[removed], flukie@[removed], WettlaufrK@[removed],
        PollyHC@[removed], NGREG0638@[removed] (nona),
        [removed]@[removed], dbazil@.[removed] ([removed]),
        bridy@[removed], [removed]@[removed] (libbydoubler),
        woostenink@[removed], dmacon@[removed], Ralaw49@[removed],
        William_Chick@[removed], 78-l@[removed], bdoubler@[removed],
        mdoubler@[removed], shoe@[removed],
        [removed]@[removed], KNOWLTON@[removed],
        [removed]@[removed], floyd@[removed], REiswerth@[removed],
        zachbear@[removed], [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Season's Greetings
Message-ID: <961222130649_811133518@[removed]>

In thanking God for this wonderful new gift of communication, allowing us to
renew old, cherished friendships and to nurture the ones we've maintained for
so long, I extend to you and yours my best wishes. Merry Christmas and a
Happy new Year! 

BILL KNOWLTON

>From Dec 23rd thru Dec 28th I'm at PollyHC@[removed] (Beautiful Brookmeade
Farm, near Zenia, Ohio)

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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 13:47:47 -0500
From: Michael Carraher <michaelcarraher@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Voice of Doom
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The term "Voice of Doom" would fit many OTR announcers and newscasters.
There is one to whom the term was commonly applied at the time.
In the late 30's and early 40's he was the newscaster on the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation's main newscast, "The National."  His stature
in Canada at the time was not unlike that achieved by Walter Cronkite in
this country during the 60's.  The CBC promoted him as "The Voice of
Canada."
Canada entered World War II in September, 1939 and Canadian forces
suffered heavy losses when Allied forces retreated from the continent of
Europe.  War news was so consistently bad during the early years of the
War -- and an Allied victory was far from certain -- that Canadians
started calling their national newscaster "The Voice of Doom."  The name
stuck with him throughout his career as a Canadian broadcaster.
His name was Lorne Greene (aka Pa Cartwright) and now you know the rest
of the story.



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