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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 207
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      The night the earth stood still       [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      10-29 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:35:09 -0400
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The night the earth stood still

    I continue to be amazed at how prolific the posts become regarding WOTW
    every October.  Has there ever been another single broadcast to generate
    this kind of response?  It seems we are reading stuff we read in the digest
    in the 1990s, only in far greater volume now.  That's quaint, since more and
    more of us have passed from the scene in the last 20 years.

    I'll add to the discussion anyway, having refrained until now during these
    WOTW posts.  I do believe the funniest thing I ever read in print was Steve
    Allen's account of what happened to him, his mother and aunt on that fateful
    night (10/30/38).  I encountered it in "Bigger Than a Breadbox" in 1967
    (Doubleday, released that year).  But I'm told he repeated it in several
    subsequent texts.  If you haven't read it in a while and need a huge
    chuckle, it will surely bring you a belly-laugh.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:35:15 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-29 births/deaths

    October 29th births

    10-29-1873 - Walter C. Kelly - Mineville, NY - d. 1-6-1939
    actor: (The Virginia Judge) "The Eveready Hour"
    10-29-1880 - Gleason L. Archer - Great Pond, ME - d. 6-28-1966
    lecturer: "Laws That Safeguard Society"
    10-29-1883 - William K. Wells - NYC - d. 4-17-1956
    writer: "Under Arrest"
    10-29-1889 - Anna Case - Clinton, NJ - d. 1-7-1984
    singer/actor: WJZ New York City
    10-29-1891 - Fanny Brice - NYC - d. 5-29-1951
    comedian: Baby Snooks Higgins, "Baby Snooks"
    10-29-1894 - Jack Pearl - NYC - d. 12-25-1982
    comedian: Baron Munchausen "Baron and the Bee, Jack and Cliff, Jack
    Pearl Show"
    10-29-1897 - Hope Emerson - Hawarden, IA - d. 4-24-1960
    actor: Henrietta Topper "Advs. of Topper"; Elsie the Cow "Happy Island"
    10-29-1901 - Akim Tamiroff - Baku, Russia - d. 9-17-1972
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-29-1902 - Lillian Lee - d. 5-18-1987
    actor: (Wife of Jack Kirkwood) "Jack Kirkwood Show"; "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    10-29-1903 - Olive Pell - Kalgoorlie, Australia - d. 1-xx-2002
    writer: "Then Came the Day They Came"
    10-29-1905 - Herbert Lateau - d. 3-xx-1984
    producer: "The National Farm and Home Hour"
    10-29-1908 - Robert K. Adams - d. 2-13-1981
    actor: "Dr. Susan"; Hilltop House"; Your Family and Mine"
    10-29-1908 - Ruth Russell - Peoria, IL
    actor: Nancy Donovan "Just Plain Bill"; Kathy "Our Gal Sunday"
    10-29-1909 - Virginia Clark - Peoria, IL
    actor: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"
    10-29-1910 - Lew Parker - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-27-1972
    actor: John Bickerson "The Bickersons" "Mennen Shave Time with Lew
    Parker"
    10-29-1916 - Hadda Brooks - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-21-2002
    pianist: "Jubilee"
    10-29-1921 - Bill Mauldin - Mountain Park, NM - d. 1-22-2003
    cartoonist: "Command Performance"; "Armed Forces V-J Program"
    10-29-1921 - Ed Kemmer - Reading, PA - d. 11-9-2004
    actor: Buzz Corey "Space Patrol"
    10-29-1922 - Neal Hefti - Hastings, NE - d. 10-11-2008
    composer, et al: "Woody Herman Show"; "Manhattan Melodies"
    10-29-1925 - Geraldine Brooks - NYC - d. 6-19-1977
    actor: "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Voice of the Army"
    10-29-1925 - Paul Daneman - London, England - d. 4-28-2001
    actor: "The Hobbit"
    10-29-1925 - Robert Hardy - Cheltenham, England
    actor, writer: "The Leopard and the Lillies"
    10-29-1933 - Douglas Cameron - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
    presenter: "Today"; "double act"

    October 29th deaths

    01-14-1923 - Shirley (Ione) Cowell - Tulsa, OK - d. 10-29-1997
    singer: "The Shirley Cowell Show"
    02-18-1890 - Adolphe Menjou - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-29-1963
    host: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    02-18-1917 - Jack Slattery - Missouri - d. 10-29-1979
    announcer: "House Party"; "You Bet Your Life"
    02-29-1888 - Tess Sheehan - Ann Arbor, MI - d. 10-29-1972
    actor: Dorrie Warren "Wendy Warren and the News"
    03-08-1909 - Anthony Donato - Prague, NE - d. 10-29-1990
    composer: "Surprise Serenade"
    03-12-1905 - Milton Merlin - California - d. 10-29-1996
    writer: "The Halls of Ivy"; "The Man Called X"; "Presenting Charles
    Boyer"
    03-xx-1896 - Billy Artzt - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-29-1949
    orchestra leader: "Blondie"; "Myrt and Marge"; "Shirley Temple Time"
    04-08-1921 - Franco Corelli - Ancona, Italy - d. 10-29-2003
    operatic tenor: "Gala Performance"
    04-12-1907 - Hubert Fincher - Waldo, AR - d. 10-29-1979
    country music: "Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance"
    05-16-1913 - Woody Herman - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-29-1987
    bandleader: (The Thundering Herd) "Wildroot Show"
    06-07-1897 - Mann Holiner - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-29-1958
    producer, director: "Baby Snooks Show"; "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Jubilee"
    06-14-1908 - John Scott Trotter - Charlotte, NC - d. 10-29-1975
    conductor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
    07-03-1919 - Fred Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 10-29-1992
    bass: "Maddox Family Band"
    07-04-1885 - Louis B. Mayer - Minsk, Byelorussia, Russian Empire - d.
    10-29-1957
    film executive: "Good News of 1938/39"; "Songs By Sinatra"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    07-06-1894 - Myra Marsh - Maine - d. 10-29-1964
    actor: Dora Foster "A Date with Judy"; Mother "My Friend Irma"
    07-13-1946 - Robert Caswell - Rockhampton, Australia - d. 10-29-2006
    writer: "Little Lunches"; "The Phone Friend"
    07-29-1924 - Lloyd Bochner - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-29-2005
    actor: "The Chase"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-20-1908 - Al Lopez - Tampa, FL - d. 10-29-2005
    baseball hall of fame: "Greatest Sports Thrills"; "Tops In Sports"
    10-23-1922 - Ewell Blackwell - Fresno, CA - d. 10-29-1996
    baseball pitcher: "Babe Didrickson Zaharius Sports Show"
    12-14-1912 - Morey Amsterdam - Chicago, IL - d. 10-29-1996
    comedian: "Morey Amsterdan Show"

    Ron

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