Subject: [removed] Digest V2001 #238
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 7/25/2001 9:00 PM
To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2001 : Issue 238
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: A&A and Self Service Gasoline     [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  Mary Crosby                           [ ArtsMilitaria@[removed] (Arthur Fun ]
  Jay Novello                           [ ArtsMilitaria@[removed] (Arthur Fun ]
  Johnny Dollar writers                 [ "Ryan Osentowski" <rosentowski@neb. ]
  Re: Morton Downey                     [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  Goldbergs                             [ Howard Gontovnick <howardg@[removed] ]
  Favorite Detective on OTR             [ lawrence albert <albertlarry@yahoo. ]
  Re: DRAGNET book                      [ SanctumOTR@[removed] ]
  Re Mary Crosby                        [ John Henley <jhenley@[removed] ]
  Morton Downey,Sr.                     [ SacChief@[removed] ]
  dragnet                               [ "randy story" <BYGEORGE@[removed]; ]
  The 39 Steps                          [ "Mike Kerezman" <philipmarlowe@eart ]
  The Brothers Crosby                   [ "Brian Johnson" <CHYRONOP@worldnet. ]
  Boston Blackie organist               [ Osborneam@[removed] ]
  "Calling All Cars" Artists Adenda     [ Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed] ]
  Magical Superheroes                   [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
  Sherlock Holmes                       [ "Richard Ward" <ward3829@[removed] ]
  Even if the Shadow knew, he wouldn't  [ neil crowley <og@[removed]; ]
  Re: Magic Island missing episodes!!   [ Jack Harris <jack@[removed] ]
  HAL STONE                             [ "Ian Grieve" <ian@[removed] ]

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    ADMINISTRIVIA:

       Sorry; as many of you noted, I mis-typed the URL in yesterday's
       issue. The correct URL with photos of Harry Bartell from the
       TV series, "The Wild Wild West" is:

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:52:11 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: A&A and Self Service Gasoline
Message-Id: <v0313030ab785363d8e7c@[[removed]]>
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Philip Adams wonders,

I remember hearing an
episode of Amos and Andy and would like to find out the title of the episode
(and maybe locate a copy of the show itself). In it A'n'A are speculating on
what business venture they could go into and one of them proposes opening a
gas station only the other one says that would be too much work.
The first one says they could have the customers do the work and pump their
own gas and of course the response is that the idea was plumb crazy. Who in
their right mind would pay to be able to pump their own gas? Indeed.

The sequence in question occured in Episode 2412, aired on  September 11,
1936. Amos and Andy had been running a filling station about two blocks
from the George Washington Bridge since the spring of that year, and had
taken time off during the summer for a vacation trip to California --
where Andy was very much impressed by the automobile-oriented
self-service culture out West. Upon their return to New York, he proposed
adopting a similar policy at the filling station -- an idea inspired also
by the fact that he very much resented having to lower himself to waiting
on customers. No recording of the episode is known to exist, but the
script for the exchange goes like this:

Andy---We gotta let dese customehs know dat de fillin' station is back
undeh de old management---dey ain't goin' treat me like dey been treatin'
Brotheh Crawford.

Amos---You gotta wait on de customers Andy---you gotta give 'em service.

Andy---No, I got a betteh idea.

Amos---Whut's dat?

Andy---We REduce de price o' gasoline a quarteh of a cent---

Amos---Yeh.

Andy---An' we change de tic-tacs o' de place heah---instead o' us waitin'
on de customehs, let 'em wait on demselfs---we call de place a gasoline
filla-teria.

Amos---A whut?

Andy---A filla-teria--it's like a cafeteria, only 'stead o' gittin' food,
yo' git gasoline an' oil.

Amos---Uh-huh---dat's one o' YO' crazy ideas.

This episode actually led to a turning point in "Amos 'n' Andy" -- the
formal dissolution of Amos and Andy's business partnership, when Amos
realized that Andy simply wasn't cut out for this type of work, bought
out his share in the business and fired him. This led to a brief but
bitter breach in their friendship, and while they eventually made their
peace, Amos and Andy never were formal business partners again. This
transition sowed the seeds for the "Kingfish and Andy" business ventures
that would be the hallmark of the show in its 1940s-1950s sitcom version.

And, in fact, in 1936 it *was* a crazy idea, since at that time
self-service gasoline was illegal in most states -- ostensibly due to the
fire hazard, but in fact due to political lobbying by oil company
interests. These laws endured in many states into the 1970s.

Elizabeth
(I had sent this post once before, but it apparently got lost in the
transition between [removed])

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:52:25 -0400
From: ArtsMilitaria@[removed] (Arthur Funk)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Mary Crosby
Message-Id: <v0313030bb785365493c0@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Bill Wilson is rumored to have implied in an OTR Digest post that Mary
Crosby who grew up to shoot J R Ewing was Bob Crosby's daughter.  Now,
Bob may have had a daughter named Mary.  I do not know.  But I do know
that Mary Frances Crosby who played Kristin Shepard, the sister of Sue
Ellen, who shot J R was none other than the daughter of der Bingle and
his last wife Kathy Grant.  Bob was THAT Mary Crosby's *uncle*.  I guess
it's obvious I don't spend *all* my time listening to OTR.

Regards to all,
Art Funk

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:53:43 -0400
From: ArtsMilitaria@[removed] (Arthur Funk)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jay Novello
Message-Id: <v0313030cb785366196ca@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Since my favorite mystery/adventure program is Rocky Jordan, I've
listened to Mr. Novello's voice many times in his portrayal of Cairo
police Captain Sam Sabayo.  He has one of those distinctive voices that
is detectible regardless of the accent or dialect he is using.  Now,
thanks to Conrad Binyon's kindness, I have put a face with the name.  I
immediately recognized the face as one I'd seen numerous times on TV
before I discovered the Adventures of Rocky Jordan.  An amazing thing,
this OTR Digest!

Regards to all,
Art Funk

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:53:44 -0400
From: "Ryan Osentowski" <rosentowski@[removed];
To: "old time radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Johnny Dollar writers
Message-Id: <v0313030db78536799ca0@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

I was pleasantly surprised to find a couple of posts responding to this
thread.  One other obvious thing I forgot to mention was Bob Bailey.  Bailey
was, in my opinion, the only man who could play Johnny Dollar.  Mandel
Kramer came close, but Bailey really had it.  When Daweson was writing a
script, Bailey delivered his lines in a clipped, no-nonsense fashion that
reminds me a lot of a business man.  On the other hand, Bailey also was very
good at delivering the humorous lines in the character that Johnstone and
Crutchfield created.  He has a bit of a grin in his voice that makes me grin
right along with him.
Next time, I will talk about Gunsmoke writing.
RyanO


"Life is an unrelenting comedy.  Therein, lies the tragedy of it."
Dean Koontz

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:53:19 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Morton Downey
Message-Id: <v0313030eb7853688a00f@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Donna Halper wonders,

I was curious as to what the general perception of him was-- I
mean, we today know his controversial talk show host son (who recently
died); but I was wondering, out of the many Irish singers on radio during
the Golden Age of radio, was he one of the most popular?  Also, in
Dunning's book, it lists the shows Downey did on the network, but there is
a gap from about 1940 to 1943.  I know he made some movies around that
time, but did he stop performing on radio for a couple of years?

Downey's window of large-scale popularity was actually rather brief --
his popularity peaked between 1930 and 1933, and it was downhill from
there on. He had been a popular cabaret star in the twenties, and in 1929
made what has to rank as one of the most excruciatingly bad movies ever
made, a "mammy film" entitled "Mother's Boy." As relentlessly as the
critics panned it, this droopy little picture was a commercial success --
and helped pave the way for Downey's success in radio.

Downey's popularity peaked in 1931-32, when he was featured on the Camel
Quarter Hour - an early evening series which combined his vocals with
Tony Wons' poetry readings. This was a combination geared to a
conservative, middle-aged, small-town audience, and that's precisely who
it reached -- Downey was by all indications far more popular among rural
listeners than he ever was among the urban audience.

This type of program fell out of fashion by the mid-thirties, and Downey
was strictly a second echelon performer for the rest of his career --
surpassed in popularity by tenors with classical training like James
Melton, or tenors who could also do comedy like Frank Parker (a tradition
carried on in later years by such performers as Kenny Baker and Dennis
Day.) Alongside these performers, Downey's style was badly dated, and by
the late thirties he was a has-been.

His radio career resumed in the forties due entirely to his friendship
with Robert Woodruff, the president of the Coca-Cola Company. Downey and
Woodruff were extremely close friends, and Downey's long tenure under
Coke sponsorship in the forties was wholly the result of Woodruff's
personal patronage. He was essentially a nostalgia act by this point, and
his prime audience was the same as that of Singing Sam and Wayne King.

Downey's association with Coke made him a multi-millionaire -- he was
paid largely in stock, and he ended up owning a chain of bottling plants
that spanned much of the Western Hemisphere -- and after he retired from
performing, he spent the rest of his life as a Coke PR ambassador. Downey
was also a close friend of Joseph P. Kennedy, a relationship that went
back to the 1920s, and it was in fact on Kennedy's advice that Downey
took most of his Coke salary in stock. The Downey family at one time
owned a Hyannisport compound adjacent to the Kennedy enclave.

Downey Jr. claimed that his childhood was not a pleasant one, and Jr.'s
abrasive and obnoxious 1980s talk-show persona was -- by his own account
-- a calculated attempt to shatter the memory of Downey Sr.'s
squeaky-clean public image.

Elizabeth

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:53:15 -0400
From: Howard Gontovnick <howardg@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Goldbergs
Message-Id: <v0313030fb7853690a1e1@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

   I am new to the list and would like to ask a question -
could some suggest a source for an old time radio show called
the Goldbergs?

   My sincere thanks for any help on this matter.

Howard Gontovnick

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:56:55 -0400
From: lawrence albert <albertlarry@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Favorite Detective on OTR
Message-Id: <v03130310b78536d9b333@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Kenneth Clark ask people to name their favorite OTR
detective, well with out any question I say that mine
is the great one himself SHERLOCK HOLMES." I have
heard audio Holmes adventures fom all over the English
speaking world, both OTR and new, and they almost
never fail to hold my attention. The exception is the
version done on the CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATRE. This
has to be the worst Holmes adaptations ever done.
However, that aside, Holmes and Watson are a breed
apart from all other radio detectives, they don't get
hit on the head every week, they don't talk to
themselves, they don't sing at the end of the show and
they don't try to out Chandler,Chandler (Raymond). At
their best all is done through deductive reasoning.
>From the golden age to today a good Sherlock Holmes
radio drama is better than a good many of the radio
detectives that have graced the air waves.
 Larry Albert

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:56:57 -0400
From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: DRAGNET book
Message-Id: <v03130311b78536e8b6c8@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

In a message dated 7/24/01 10:04:56 AM, Michael J. Hayde writes:

Goodness, one can barely tune in "Dragnet" *without* seeing Mr. Bartell!
(Okay, that's not true, but he IS in a lot of them!)  He plays Father Rojas
in both the 1953 & 1967 versions of "The Dragnet Christmas Story" about the
stolen baby Jesus statue.  The 1953 version can be viewed online at
[removed].  He's also in the 1954 "Dragnet" feature.  Or you
can check his TV and Film credits at [removed]; just enter "Harry
Bartell" into its search engine.  Or (shameless plug here) you can pick up a
copy of "My Name's Friday" at the bookstore and turn to pages 75 and 87 to
see photos of Mr. Bartell (full-face and profile, respectively) from the
1950's.

Allow me to second the "shameless plug" for Michael J. Hayde's MY NAME'S
FRIDAY.  The just-published book deserves a place on every DRAGNET fan's
bookshelf.  Included are logs of the radio series and the two network TV
series and lots of interesting information including the identity of the
actor Webb wanted to cast as Sergeant Friday in the original DRAGNET
television series (since Webb really wanted to concentrate his efforts behind
the camera).  Who was it?  You'll just have to pick up Mr. Hayde's excellent
book to find out.  (The answer's on page 41.) --ANTHONY TOLLIN

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:57:00 -0400
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re Mary Crosby
Message-Id: <v03130312b7853716c19b@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

I don't as a rule like to pick nits (very much), but
Bill in GA said
As to Bob Crosby, he was indeed Bing's brother.  And in the episode in which
he is solicited by Jack to replace Phil Harris, his young daughter Mary is
heard.  Of course, Mary grew up to shoot [removed] Ewing!!!

If I'm reading this right, Bill's saying that Mary (the one who
shot JR) is Bob Crosby's daughter.
Nope, she's the daughter of Bing Crosby and his second wife, Kathryn Grant.

John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:57:02 -0400
From: SacChief@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Morton Downey,Sr.
Message-Id: <v03130313b785371fc3b0@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

I know that Morton Downey Sr was still active in the early and mid 1950's, as
I heard him perform in a USO show at Ft Gordon, GA during the Korean War.
bob keldgord

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:57:05 -0400
From: "randy story" <BYGEORGE@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  dragnet
Message-Id: <v03130314b7853730c798@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

hi, kids(and hal):)
as a new fan of DRAGNET, i was wondering if anyone can tell me about the
recent jack webb book on the shelves. just opinions, comments, etc. and
availability. also, what about the book on jack webb from a few years
back(JUST THE FACTS, M'AM was the title i [removed] be wrong).
and i am also looking for a good(relatively [removed] am but a poor
public school teacher) source of infrmation on GUNSMOKE and other otr
programs. is there a website out there that focuses on such books or
cd-roms?
let me know, please.
thanks, kids(and hal)!
randy story
west plains, mo
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my vote for HERO of otr is forever THE LONE RANGER!!!!!

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:57:07 -0400
From: "Mike Kerezman" <philipmarlowe@[removed];
To: "OTR DIGEST" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The 39 Steps
Message-Id: <v03130315b785373ac9ea@[[removed]]>
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I just finished reading the classic novel THE 39 STEPS (1915) by John
Buchan. It was such a wonderful, fast read that I managed to get hold of
some adaptations of it from the Golden Age of Radio. I was able to find the
30 minute version on SUSPENSE from 1952 starring Herbert Marshall and the
1938 Orson Welles production on the Mercury Theater. I am always amazed at
how well Mr. Welles remained faithful to classic books he presented. Without
taking anything away from SUSPENSE, MR. Welles' version is incredible
accurate to book in particular the final scene which literally follows the
original dialogue. The story is somewhat remiscent of the story "ROGUE MALE"
(Based on the 1939 Novel by Geoffrey Houisehold) which was also done on
SUSPENSE which also starred Herbert Marshall.

Mike Kerezman
Macomb, Oklahoma

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:57:13 -0400
From: "Brian Johnson" <CHYRONOP@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Brothers Crosby
Message-Id: <v03130316b7853753cfc4@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

It was probably never easy to be in the shadow of the man who was America's
(and maybe the world's) most popular entertainer for most of a quarter of a
century. Bing Crosby had four brothers and two sisters who did just that.
(Everett 1896-1966, Larry 1895-1975, Ted 1900-73, Bob 1913-93,
Catherine1904-72 and Mary Rose 1906-90.)

Everett, of course, became almost as legendary as Bing's manager, the butt
of an endless string of 10% jokes on the radio. Ted wrote an a terribly
flawed and inaccurate biography of brother Bing in 1937 and repeated many of
the mistakes again in a second try in 1946. I believe he worked in the
publicity department of Bing Crosby Enterprises.

In 1931, band leader Anson Weeks offered 18-year-old Bob a job singing with
his orchestra, hoping he was a least half as good as his brother. Later, Bob
was chosen to front his own orchestra even though he couldn't play an
instrument or read music. (He was chosen by the members of a disbanded
orchestra as way of staying together.  He was so bad at keeping time that
the members of his first ensemble of Bobcats took away his baton! The
orchestra still exists. [removed]

Eventually Bob found himself in radio, first with the Andrews Sisters and
later with Jack Benny as Phil Harris' successor. He had a very successful
daytime TV program for CBS from 1953-57 and did a primetime summer show on
NBC in 1958.

As Hal Erickson noted, "At one point, Crosby observed in 1958, 'it got so
bad that whenever someone asked me what my occupation was, I used to answer
automatically 'Bing Crosby's brother.' " (ALL MOVIE GUIDE)

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:57:16 -0400
From: Osborneam@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Boston Blackie organist
Message-Id: <v03130317b785375fd29f@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Hal Stone replied to Greg Przywara:
<<I'm not sure who the organist was for "Boston Blackie",>>

The Boston Blackie  organist was Charlie Paul, who was married to either
Jeannie Harrison or Jan Miner (am still looking for confirmation which!)

Arlene Osborne

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:57:18 -0400
From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "Calling All Cars" Artists Adenda
Message-Id: <v03130318b7853768d4bd@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

I have a few more left after these two "Calling
All Cars" players.  I keep looking for more.

Most recent are:


[removed]

and

[removed]

CAB
--
conradab@[removed] (Conrad A. Binyon)
   From the Home of the Stars who loved Ranches and Farms
     Encino, California.

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:57:31 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Magical Superheroes
Message-Id: <v03130319b785376fd666@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Kenneth Clarke, speaking of superheroes (as opposed to "super" heroes)
asks,

As far super heroes go (those with special powers), the only ones hich
automatically spring to mind are "The Shadow" (invisibility) "Superman"
(super strength, among others), "Chandu" (didn't he use a magic crystal
somehow?), among others.

Chandu was a magician in the technical sense ([removed], had thaumaturgical
powers rather than being an illusionist).  He had a crystal ball, which
he used to contact his yogi teacher, engage in a little clairvoyance,
etc.  He also could cast various spells, usually by invoking "the power
of the Three Times Three," whatever that was.  At one point, he apported
some planted evidence before the police could find it.  Another time, he
filled an area with smoke to convince some baddies that their building
was on fire, and so forth.  He didn't use the "magic crystal" [ball] for
any of this.

The short-lived Mandrake the Magician show was also based on the hero
being a magician.  Before performing one of his feats, Mandrake [in the
radio show] would cry, "Invoco legem magicarum," which, translated out of
the Latin, meant, "I invoke the Laws of Magic."  In the comic strip that
the OTR show derived from, Mandrake "gestured hypnotically," implying
that rather than producing real magical acts, he hypnotized people into
believing he had.  However, even being able to perform that level of
hypnotism would have been a super power.

Having not heard Blackstone, the Magic Detective, I don't know whether he
acted as a magician or an illusionist.  that would make a difference.

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:59:23 -0400
From: "Richard  Ward" <ward3829@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Sherlock Holmes
Message-Id: <v0313031ab78537c8eb81@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Mr. Bartell, can you identify the following 2 recurring
actors in the Holmes broadcasts?

(1) He was the drunken slob who lost his bet and his life
while stretching down to kiss the Blarney Stone; he was also
the occult investigator in the case of the headless monk; he
also played Holmes' rich friend who visited on xmas eve and
wanted Holmes to dress up like Santa Claus to catch a thief;
I believe he was the ship's doctor (and later was pushed to
his death) as Holmes and Watson sailed the Indian Ocean; he
played the targeted cousin in a despicable plot against his
life in the Guy Fawkes episode

(2) This man played Mycroft Holmes a couple of times; I
believe he spoke French as Holmes and Watson watched the
circus in Paris; he also spoke French in the Riviera casino
where the insanely jealous casino owner killed two men
because he was in love with an American woman.

If you could tell me the names of these men and anything
about them I would greatly appreciate it.

Richard T. Ward
Canton, Ohio
________________________________________________
Don't E-Mail, ZipMail! [removed]

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:59:40 -0400
From: neil crowley <og@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Even if the Shadow knew, he wouldn't say
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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:52:12 -0400
From: "Henry R. Moreno" <henry@[removed];

"Blue coal" is anthracite sprayed with a supension of finely divided
ultramarine or "Celestial Blue" in water, followed by partial or complete
drying (footnote 15)
...
Did the Shadow know this?

I think the Shadow only claimed expert knowledge of "the evil that lurks in
the hearts of men". Coal has its share of evil but it's not in its technology.

Like most of us the Shadow defined evil by the standards of his times. As
with us some evil is customarily ignored. (Tobacco executives are good
family men and prominently charitable; merchants of death - not us.) While
the Shadow was ever ready to rescue the impetuous Margo Lane (hey, another
stupid sidekick) and intrepid in facing down supervillains, he never seemed
to notice the little lies and deceptions of the sponsor. It's hard to
question your master's voice.

I guess that proves Lamont didn't spend his childhood in a Pennsylvania
coal town. (Few of the children who did ever made it to the big city - they
usually found their first private room in the local boneyard.) Or could the
Shadow have been the mutant offspring of a mine owner? The view from the
big house on the hill is never the same as the view from the hovel near the
pits.

I always thought Fitgerald was wrong about the rich being different but
maybe not - he knew more of the vermin than I ever will.

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:59:47 -0400
From: Jack Harris <jack@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Magic Island missing episodes!!
Message-Id: <v0313031cb78537d2edbf@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

I was the culprit that posted the Magic Island in five chapters at a time.
(funny how it has shown up in the strangest places) This is the way I have
them on tape. (five chapters per side) When I was ripping them I merely let
the tape play to the end instead of stopping it every 15 minutes.  Then
laziness got the best of me and I didn't seperate and post them as
individual chapters.  There is a gap between them of course.

I too have had them for a number of years on reel to reel and this is the
way I obtained them.  I however didn't notice anything fishy so I guess I
need to listen to them again. Ian has my original post I believe so
whatever he finds out should fix my problem and maybe the rest since this
seems to go way back.  I hope I [removed]:>)

Jack

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 23:00:06 -0400
From: "Ian Grieve" <ian@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  HAL STONE
Message-Id: <v0313031db78537dff0c1@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Hal, you take all the fun out of it when you post your own corrections.
Seriously though, I enjoy your comments on the Digest and do look forward to
reading 'THE BOOK'.  I regret that the time difference doesn't allow me to
join in for the chats due to work committments, but I am sure they are
entertaining.

If you are thinking of doing a 'BOOK TOUR' keep us in mind, though you may
need a guide just to make sure you reach the right country :) New Zealanders
are good with Fish and Chups, Australians of course don't have accents,
everybody else does.  Using an ICBM against a country whose dollar isn't
worth a dollar anymore is overkill, just buy us up with your loose change
and kick us out.  With regard to Viagra, Australian nurses have found a
great use for it and the elderly men are all given Viagra in nursing homes
each night.  It stops them rolling out of bed :)

I very much regret that there are not more Archie otr episodes available, I
am up to 30+ of them now, but they are hard to come by.

Ian Grieve
Hal Stone and Archie fan

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