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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 56
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      4-8 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Unit 99                               [ "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@ ]

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    Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:26:13 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-8 births/deaths

    April 8th births

    04-08-1881 - Arthur B. Allen - Gowanda, NY - d. 8-25-1947
    actor: "Snow Village Sketches"; "Kate Smith Show"; Stebbens Boys"
    04-08-1882 - Lulu McConnell - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-9-1962
    comedian: "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
    04-08-1887 - Walter Connolly - Cincinnati, OH - d. 5-28-1940
    actor: Charlie Chan "Charlie Chan"
    04-08-1888 - Thornton Fisher - Cincinnati, OH - d. 8-13-1975
    sports reporter: "The Briggs Sports Review"
    04-08-1889 - Adrian Boult - Chester, England - d. 2-23-1983
    writer: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "Casebook of Gregory Hood"; "Sherlock
    Holmes"
    04-08-1896 - Yip Harburg - NYC - d. 3-5-1981
    lyricist: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
    04-08-1900 - Bert "Mad Russian" Gordon - NYC - d. 11-30-1974
    comedian: "Eddie Cantor Show"; Yasha "Duffy's Tavern"
    04-08-1905 - Ilka Chase - NYC - d. 2-15-1978
    panelist, hostess, actor: "Leave It to the Girls"; "Luncheon at the
    Waldorf"
    04-08-1906 - Max Afford - Parkside, Australia - d. 11-2-1954
    writer: "Murder's Not for Middle Age"
    04-08-1908 - Tito Guizar - Guadalajara, Mexico - d. 12-25-1999
    vocalist: (Isham Jones Band) "Duffy's Tavern"; "Hollywood Showcase"
    04-08-1911 - Ichiro Fujiyama - Tokyo, Japan - d. 7-21-1993
    enka singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"
    04-08-1912 - Sonja Henie - Kristiania, Norway - d. 10-12-1969
    skater, actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Bill Ster's Colgate Sports
    Newsreel"; "Shell Show"
    04-08-1915 - Carlyle Austin - d. 10-30-1985
    sportscaster: KEVR Seattle, Washington
    04-08-1915 - Fred Flowerday - d. 4-6-1989
    director: "The Lone Ranger"; "The Green Hornet"; "Challenge of the
    Yukon"
    04-08-1915 - R. Norwood Smith - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-24-1999
    singer: "Norwood Smith Sings"
    04-08-1916 - Carl Cotner - Indiana - d. 11-14-1986
    steel guitar: "Gene Aurty's Melody Ranch"
    04-08-1919 - Virginia O'Brien - Los Angles, CA - d. 1-23-2001
    actor: "Blue Ribbon Town"
    04-08-1921 - Franco Corelli - Ancona, Italy - d. 10-29-2003
    operatic tenor: "Gala Performance"
    04-08-1922 - Carmen McRae - NYC - d. 11-10-1994
    jazz singer: "Woolworth Hour"; "Newport Jazz Festival"
    04-08-1923 - Jimmie Osborne - Winchester, KY - d. 12-26-1958
    singer: "WLS Barn Dance"; "WLW Midwestern Hayride"
    04-08-1928 - Eric Porter - London, England - d. 5-15-1995
    actor: "Landscape"
    04-08-1930 - Dorothy Tutin - London, England - d. 8-6-2001
    actor: "Before the Party"
    04-08-1931 - John Bartholomew Tucker
    host (communicator) "Monitor"
    04-08-1937 - Bernelda Wheeler - Saskatchewan, Canada - d. 9-11-2005
    worked as a disc jockey in Churchill, Manitoba
    04-08-1941 - Peggy Lennon - Los Angeles, CA
    singer: (The Lennon Sisters) "Music on Deck"; "Voices of Vista";
    "Guest Star"

    April 8th deaths

    01-02-1920 - Charles Douglass - Mexico - d. 4-8-2003
    radio engineer for the CBS radio network
    01-21-1914 - George A. Putnam - Middletown, NY - d. 4-8-1975
    announcer: "Can You Top This?"; "Vic and Sade"; "Portia Faces Life"
    01-28-1914 - Nelson Olmstead - Minnesota - d. 4-8-1992
    actor: Joe Huston "Bachelor's Children"
    02-12-1893 - Omar Bradley - Clark, MO - d. 4-8-1981
    general of the army: "What Are We Fighting For?"; "[removed] Campaign"
    02-27-1897 - Marian Anderson - South Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-8-1993
    singer: "Ford Evening Sunday Hour"; "Telephone Hour"; "New World A'
    Coming"
    03-08-1909 - Claire Trevor - NYC - d. 4-8-2000
    actor: Lorelei Kilbourne " Big Town", Theresa Travers "Results, Inc."
    03-24-1906 - Julian Funt - d. 4-8-1980
    writer: "Young Doctor Malone"
    03-25-1926 - Paul Leder - Springfield, MA - d. 4-8-1996
    singer: "Molly Goldberg Show"
    05-02-1897 - J. Fred Coots - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-8-1985
    composer, pianist: "Ray Shield's Revue"
    05-03-1874 - Louis Dean - Wilmington, DE - d. 4-8-1933
    announcer: "Stoopnagle and Budd"
    05-04-1924 - Gene Klaven - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-8-2004
    new york morning personalty: "Klaven and Finch"; "Klaven in the Morning"
    06-11-1918 - Jane Bryan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-8-2009
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"
    06-13-1920 - Ben Johnson - Pawnee, OK - d. 4-8-1996
    actor: "Francis Burke for Attorney General"
    08-30-1879 - Fritzi Scheff - Vienna, Austria - d. 4-8-1954
    prima donna: "Lavender and Old Lace"; "The Philco Hour"
    12-19-1894 - Ford Frick - Wawaka, IN - d. 4-8-1978
    baseball comissioner: "Baseball: An Action History"; "Play Ball";
    "Tribute to Babe Ruth"
    12-20-1928 - Donald Adams - Bristol, England - d. 4-8-1996
    opera singer: BBC Repertory Company

    Ron
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    Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 12:57:58 -0400
    From: "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
    To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Unit 99

    Mackenzie has very little info. Ep #841 dates from Sept., 1957.

    joe salerno

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