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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2019 : Issue 46
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Red Skelton and fraternal organisati  [ Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 22-28 Sep  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Wartime BBC                           [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      Colgate Comedy Hour                   [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      H. V. Kaltenborn                      [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      Whither collecting?                   [ Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@yahoo. ]

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    Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:26:18 -0400
    From: Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Red Skelton and fraternal organisations
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    Since Red Skelton throughout the 1960s maintained that the dim-witted cartoon
    moose Bullwinkle was a direct steal of his country bumpkin Clem
    Kadiddlehopper character to the point where Skelton threatened litigation,
    perhaps Red belonged to the local Moose Lodge.
    Yours in the ether,
    Derek Tague

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    Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:26:27 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 22-28 September

     From Those Were The Days -

    9/22

    1943   Singer Kate Smith finished her War Bond radio appeal. For 13
    continuous hours Smith had stayed on the air, collecting a whopping $39
    million dollars in bond pledges.  ($57,2756,495 in 2018 dollars.)

    1957   The CBS Radio Workshop was silenced after 18 months of what the
    critics said was "ingenious radio programming."

    9/24

    1942   Glenn Miller ended his Moonlight Serenade series on CBS. It was
    time for Miller to go to war. The show had aired three times a week for
    Chesterfield Cigarettes.

    9/25

    1933 - America's favorite cowboy, Tom Mix, was heard for the first time
    on NBC. The Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters continued on the air until
    June 1950.

    9/27

    1933   NBC debuted Waltz Time, featuring the orchestra of Abe Lymon. The
    program continued on the network until 1948.

    1938   Thanks for the Memory was heard for the first time on The Bob
    Hope Show on the NBC Red network.

    9/28

    1936   Bachelor's Children debuted on CBS (at 9:45 [removed]) in addition to
    its schedule on the Mutual Network (at 10:15 [removed]). The show's theme
    song, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, opened the 15 minute, critically
    acclaimed, daily serial. Bachelor's Children became very popular because
    of its natural dialogue which made folks think they were hearing a real
    event. Bachelor's Children ... brought to you by Old Dutch Cleanser,
    Palmolive Peet Soap, Colgate Toothpaste and Wonder Bread.

    1939   The final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard. The star
    of the show, Rudy Vallee, wrapped things up after a decade of
    entertaining radio before moving on to other sponsors.

    Joe

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    Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:27:24 -0400
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Wartime BBC
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    Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:14:20 -0400

>     Hi. I thought this might be of interest:
>     BBC's secret World War Two activities revealed

    Was there supposed to be a URL with this?  Or some direction on
    how/where to access the article?

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed] . 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 . Newton, MA 02459
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    Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:27:57 -0400
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Colgate Comedy Hour
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>     1950 - ... In addition to Cantor, other hosts of the "Colgate
>     Comedy Hour" included: Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope, Gordon
>     MacRae and Jimmy Durante.

    And frequently Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed] . 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 . Newton, MA 02459
    [removed] . [removed] . [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:28:48 -0400
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  H. V. Kaltenborn
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>     1938   [removed] Kaltenborn made broadcasting history by covering a crisis in
>     Czechoslovakia for CBS beginning on this day. Kaltenborn was so devoted
>     to his work that he slept in the studio for 18 days while bringing
>     updates to his appreciative audience.

    He was before my time, but apparently he was the Walter Cronkite of his
    day.  It is said that the Chicago Tribune called him on the afternoon of
    election day in 1948 and ran their famous "Dewey Defeats Truman"
    headline after being assured by Kaltenborn that Dewey was going to win.

    I say he was before my time, but he really wasn't.  According to
    Wikipedia, he left full-time broadcasting in 1953, but I was 8 years old
    in 1953 and have no memory of hearing his name when my parents listened
    to the news on the radio.  Wikipedia also says he participated in NBC's
    television coverage of the political conventions in 1956, which I did
    watch, but I don't remember him. It also says that he appeared as
    himself in three films, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Babe Ruth
    Story, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.  I've seen all three of those
    movies and don't remember him, probably because when I saw them, I
    didn't know who he was.  If I ever see those movies again, I'll have to
    pay attention.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed] . 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 . Newton, MA 02459
    [removed] . [removed] . [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:06:56 -0400
    From: Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Whither collecting?

    I've been wondering lately about the status of active OTR collecting in the
    internet age. I was never a real collector (though I did "amass" several
    hundred shows at one time-a pittance compared to serious collectors).
    Still, with so much OTR available instantly from either sites like OTR
    Streamer or "stations" like OTR Antioch, is the desire to collect dimmed?
    Are there still serious researchers scouting for new discoveries? In other
    words, from your point of view, how's the "hobby" (for want of a better
    term) doing?

    Alan

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