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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2018 : Issue 46
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  George Lefferts                       [ Al Hubin <ajhubin@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 12-18 Aug  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  New Johnny Dollar book                [ John Abbott <mraastro@[removed]; ]

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 20:29:38 -0400
From: Al Hubin <ajhubin@[removed];
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Subject:  George Lefferts
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As far as I can tell, George Lefferts is still alive, in Leonia, New Jersey.

Al Hubin

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 20:29:47 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 12-18 August

 From Those Were The Days

8/12

1937   Comedian Red Skelton got his first taste of network radio as he
appeared on the Rudy Vallee Show on NBC.

8/13

1912   St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, PA was granted the first
experimental radio license by the [removed] Department of Commerce.

8/14

1933   WLW in Cincinnati, OH premiered Ma Perkins. Just four months
later, Ma moved to WMAQ in Chicago and was heard over the entire NBC
network. Virginia Payne was 23 years old when she started in the title
role. Ma Perkins operated a lumberyard in Rushville Center. Her children
were Evey, Fay and John (who was killed in the war). One of the other
characters in the show was Shuffle Shober. Virginia Payne played Ma
Perkins for 27 years and 7,065 episodes.

1942   Gary Moore hosted a new program on NBC. The Show Without a Name
was an effort to crack the morning show dominance of Arthur Godfrey
(CBS) and Don McNeil's Breakfast Club (ABC). A prize of $500 ($7,645 in
2017 dollars) was offered to name the show and Someone came up with the
title, Everything Goes.

1945   CBS began the series, Columbia Presents Corwin. Orson Welles did
a special reading about the fall of Japan, titled, Fourteen August.

8/15

1911   Procter & Gamble Company of Cincinnati, OH introduced Crisco
hydrogenated shortening.  (Where would all those shows have been with
Crisco as a sponsor?  And remember, its digestible!  ed)

8/16

1922   WEAF began broadcasting from new studios atop the Western
Electric Building in New York City.

1939   Lights Out, radio's "ultimate horror show," was heard for the
last time on NBC. In 1942, Arch Obler brought the show back to life on
CBS. The show's most familiar trademark, guaranteed to put you under the
covers on a dark night was, "Lights out, everybody!", followed by 12
chimes of a clock.  (On campus there is a clock that strikes the hours
and I will catch myself saying "It-is-later-than-you-think.
Lights-out-every-body" at 10 quite often.  -ed)

Joe

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 20:31:30 -0400
From: John Abbott <mraastro@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  New Johnny Dollar book

     BearManor Media has just released "The Who is Johnny Dollar?" Matter -
SECOND EDITION by John Abbott.

   The second edition of "The Who is Johnny Dollar Matter?" consolidates the
three-volume First Edition into just two volumes. Volume I covers the character
background information, the Charles Russell, Edmund O'Brien, John Lund and the
5-part Bob Bailey programs.  Volume II picks up with the 30-minute Bob Bailey
programs, the Bob Readick and the Mandel Kramer programs. However, nothing has
been deleted from the content. To the contrary, there has been a recent
clarification of the Bob Readick and Mandel Kramer programs  which provides a
level of clarity to the last two years of broadcasts. Volume II also adds a
listing of AFRST/AFN sourced programs and an updated catalog of all known and
missing Yours Truly Johnny Dollar programs.  

   The Second Edition is available in Hard Cover and Paperback versions. See the
BearManor website for ordering details:

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   John C. Abbott 
   

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