Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #153
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 6/2/2006 10:05 PM

To: [removed]@[removed]

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 153
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      6-2 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      RANDY EIDEMILLER                      [ "David S. Siegel" <otrdsiegel@veriz ]
      Inner Sanctum                         [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Wings On OTR                          [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@j ]
      Farm Broadcasts                       [ "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed]; ]
      Boswell Sisters Show                  [ "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@ya ]
      Will Rogers program on CBS?           [ "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@sbcglob ]
      Superman and Batman                   [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      The Day Superman Confessed            [ Brightstar2761@[removed] ]
      Corris Archer                         [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
      batman                                [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
      Re: "Meet Corliss Archer"             [ Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@sbcgloba ]
      Seabiscuit                            [ "Ron Vanover" <rvanover@[removed] ]
      Gerald Nachman                        [ Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed]; ]
      INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE                   [ "Jim Gordon" <jimgordon88@[removed] ]
      OTR and the Big Black Dial            [ Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@yahoo ]
      Seabiscuit [removed]                 [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Seabiscuit                            [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:59:22 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-2 births/deaths

    June 2nd births

    06-02-1879 - Florence Edney - London, England - d. 11-24-1950
    actor: Aunt Maizie "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
    06-02-1884 - Frank Hummert - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-12-1966
    producer: "Backstage Wife"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
    06-02-1889 - Martha Wentworth - NYC - d. 3-8-1974
    actor: Wintergreen Witch "Cinnamon Bear"; Nancy "Witch's Tale"
    06-02-1900 - Charles Tazewell - d. 6-26-1972
    writer: "The Columbia Workshop"; "Tom Mix"; "Mayor of the Town"
    06-02-1901 - Lou Shoobe - d. 7-14-1989
    bassist: "The Saturday Night Swing Club"
    06-02-1902 - Jimmie Lunceford - Fulton, MO - d. 7-12-1947
    bandeader: "Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra"
    06-02-1904 - Johnny Weissmuller - Windber, PA - d. 1-20-1984
    actor: Movie Tarzan and Jungle Jim
    06-02-1908 - Ben Grauer - Staten Island, NY - d. 5-31-1977
    announcer, emcee: "Walter Winchell"; "Information, Please"; "Boston
    Symphony"
    06-02-1909 - June MacCloy - Sturgis, MI - d. 5-5-2005
    vocalist: "Griff Williams and Jimmy Walsh and Their Orchestra"
    06-02-1909 - Martin Ashe - Bradford, IL - d. 4-15-1991
    actor: "Grand Central Station"
    06-02-1913 - Burt Farber - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-27-2005
    orchestra leader: "Curtain Time"
    06-02-1914 - Nicholas Saunders - Kiev, Russia
    actor: Sergeant Ross "Martin Kane, Private Eye"
    06-02-1915 - Walter Tetley - NYC - d. 9-4-1975
    actor: Julius Abbruzio "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"; LeRoy Forrester
    "Great Gildersleeve"
    06-02-1920 - Toni Gilman - Chicago, IL
    actor: (Sister of Lucy Gilman) "Young Widder Brown"
    06-02-1922 - Gill Stratton, Jr. - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: "Billy Webster "Those Websters"; Jimmy "Life with Luigi";
    Freddie "My Little Margie"
    06-02-1941 - Stacy Keach, Jr. - Savannah, GA
    actor, narrator: "Twilight Zone"
    06-02-1942 - Marie Cheatham - Oklahoma
    actor" "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    June 2nd deaths
    01-24-1915 - Evie Juster - d. 6-2-1988
    actor: "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"; "Our Gal Sunday"
    02-11-1908 - Philip Dunne - NYC - d. 6-2-1992
    screenwriter, director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-18-1894 - Andres Segovia - Linares, Spain - d. 6-2-1987
    classical guitarist: "The Magic Key"; "Theatre [removed]"; "Concert Hall"
    03-05-1908 - Rex Harrison - Huyton, England - d. 6-2-1990
    actor: Rex Saunders "Private Files of Rex Saunders"
    03-13-1910 - Sammy Kaye - Lakewood, OH - d. 6-2-1987
    bandleader: (Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye) "Sunday Serenade"
    05-04-1886 - Earl Lee - Topeka, KS - d. 6-2-1955
    actor: Fred Thompson "One Man's Family"
    05-11-1899 - Forrest Lewis - Knightstown, IN - d. 6-2-1977
    actor: Richard Q. Peavey "Great Gildersleeve"; Roy Delfeeno "Vic and
    Sade"
    05-29-1883 - Dr. Allan R. Defoe - Canada - d. 6-2-1943
    delivered the Dionne quintuplets: monthly reports on the quints progress
    06-03-1917 - Leo Gorcey - NYC - d. 6-2-1969
    actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
    06-13-1905 - Doc Cheatham - Nashville, TN - d. 6-2-1997
    jazz trumpeter: "Benny Goodman and His Sextet/Orchestra"; "Benny
    Goodman Quintet"
    06-19-1903 - Lou Gehrig - NYC - d. 6-2-1941
    baseball iron man: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-12-1886 - Jean Hersholt - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 6-2-1956
    actor: Dr. Paul Christian "Dr. Christian"
    07-25-1900 - Al Pearce - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-2-1961
    comedian: Elmer Blurt "Here Comes Elmer"; "Al Pearce Show"
    08-13-1907 - Mabel Todd - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-2-1977
    vocalist: "The Al Pearce Show"; "Your Hollywood Parade"
    11-02-1908 - Bunny Berrigan - Hilbert, WI - d. 6-2-1942
    bandleader: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Tim and Irene"
    11-16-1889 - George S. Kaufman - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-2-1961
    panelist: "Information, Please"; "This Is Broadway"; "Who Said That?"
    11-18-1908 - Imogene Coca - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-2-2001
    comedienne: "Big Show"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Felix Holt - d. 6-2-1954
    writer: "Challenge of the Yukon"; "Cimarron Tavern"; "The One Ranger"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Home state of John Hiestand
    Madison, Wisconsin

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:35:34 -0400
    From: "David S. Siegel" <otrdsiegel@[removed];
    To: OTR DIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RANDY  EIDEMILLER

         If, like myself, you happen to be an old friend of otr collector Randy
    Eidemiller and have not been able to reach him by phone or mail in recent
    weeks, you may want to know that Randy's health has been impaired due to
    what doctors believe, may have been one or more mini strokes.

       He is currently residing at The Pacifica Royale (15022 Pacific Street /
    room 205  Mid Way City CA 92655 ) and, while he is no longer able to maintain
    a
    trading capacity, he would still be quite pleased to hear from any of his
    old otr friends.

    Dave Siegel

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:36:34 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Inner Sanctum

    [removed] King apparently has some advertisements that state INNER SANCTUM
    MYSTERIES (rather than INNER SANCTUM MYSTERY).

    I stand corrected.  Apparently there were some ads in newspapers that said
    otherwise.

    I will stand firm that the title of the program is INNER SANCTUM MYSTERY
    since the actual radio episodes state this, and the scritps themselves.  I
    am aware that advetisements were generally made by the advertising agency so
    this may have been the cause of the other spelling in the newspapers.

    Thank you Mr. King for your scans, I appreciate them.  I can now go to bed
    knowing that I have learned something new every day and today is no
    exception.
    Cheers!

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:37:31 -0400
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Wings On OTR

    Jim Harmon, speaking of the remake of the Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen,
    notes,

>     In the remake, Speed is to fly an atomic powered jet that will go twice
>     the speed of sound.  Things do not go well, and Speed has to bail out,
>     letting the ship crash.   Later, Jimmie examines the crash site and
>     finds, in about 1949, a suspicious bit of "wing fabric".    Wing fabric
>     from a modern jet plane?   I don't think so.  That would harken back to
>     the days of wood and canvas planes from the first World War, the 1920s,
>     and into the 1930s.

    Well, during World War II, the Chance Vought OS2U World War II
    observation aircraft had wings with fabric aft of the wing's spar, though
    it did have a metal leading [removed]  I have heard that some of the early
    F4U fighters used the same approach, so "wing fabric," though rare, was
    not unheard of in the 1940s and after.

    For a Mach 2 "atomic powered jet," though, it might be stretching a
    point.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:37:50 -0400
    From: "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Farm Broadcasts
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         There was a gentleman by the name of Ed Johnson, who operated a
    mini-network of 75 stations out of Columbus, Ohio called "Agri-Broadcasting
    Network" , which delivered farm news and stock prices to stations in Ohio,
    West Virginia and [removed] was on even before this at WHBC AM 1480 in Canton
    Ohio generally between 5:45-5:50 each morning 5 days a week.  He definitely
    had a "Farm Broadcaster's" [removed] passed on in 2001

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:36:55 -0400
    From: "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Boswell Sisters Show

    I'm in love with the Boswell Sisters.  I think they deserve much wider recognition than the
    Andrews Sisters.   Sure the Andrews are fun, but the Bozzies were genuine jazz artists and
    originators, creating incredible arrangements with their soulful voices to make masterpieces out
    of primitive material.  Most of their songs were recorded long before most of the great jazz
    standards were even written, yet the Bozzies sound sophisticated and thrilling even when
    performing wretched old chestnuts like "Yes Sir That's My Baby" or "Darktown Strutters Ball".
    And when they do get a decent piece of material like "42nd Street" they elevate it to the sublime.

    Radiogoldindex shows that the Boswell Sisters had their own show in 1930 and 1931.  Does anyone on
    this list have any of those shows?

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 00:42:37 -0400
    From: "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Will Rogers program on CBS?

    Hi!  I may have asked this question a few years ago, but I seem to have lost
    or deleted the particular answer I'm seeking.

    There's a photo of Will Rogers standing in front of a carbon microphone, and
    on the mic, the call letters "KHJ" appear, along with "Columbia Broadcasting
    System."
    The picture, which is in one of my books on old time radio, is also seen at
    the Smithsonian in Washington, [removed] as part of an exhibit on radio.  The
    picture appears to be from around 1930 or so, and KHJ was an early CBS
    affiliate in Los Angeles from between 1929 and 1936.

    Out of curiosity, was Will Rogers on a CBS program around that time that
    would have originated from Los Angeles, or was this photo possibly posed
    when Rogers appeared at KHJ to take part in a local broadcast not heard on
    the CBS network?  I know that not many coast-to-coast shows on radio were
    done from [removed] until the late-1930s, so I was hoping to find out
    if this was an exception, in which Will Rogers' progam on CBS was aired from
    the [removed] studios of KHJ.

    Jim Hilliker
    Monterey, CA

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 07:55:36 -0400
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Superman and Batman

>     Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 08:54:08 -0400
>     From: "Barbara Harmon" <jimharmonotr@[removed];

>     Now Batman knows Kent's secret, but they decide that Robin is too
>     young to be trusted with this information.  So far as I know, the
>     Boy Wonder was never let in on Kent's secret.

>     Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:44:11 -0400
>     From: "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed];

>     [removed] the mystery still lingers as to whether or not Robin was
>     ever let in on the secret of Superman's [removed]

    That's the radio version.  In the comic books, there have been at
    least two different stories of how Superman and Batman learned each
    others' identities.  In the early 1950s or late 1940s version,
    Superman and Batman happened to be aboard a ship and, when an
    emergency occurred, both managed to be changing in the same boiler
    room or something.  By the time I began reading Worlds Finest Comics
    (which always carried a story of Superman and Batman together in one
    adventure) in the early 1950s, it was clear that Robin knew, too.

    In the 1980s, DC Comics revamped their continuity, and Superman and
    Batman were, for a time, hostile to each other.  Apparently Batman
    learned of Superman's identity through his detective abilities.
    Superman tried the X-ray vision trick, but Batman had lined his mask
    with lead.  I don't recall how Superman learned Batman's identity,
    but eventually he did.

    I'll have to go back and have a listen, but I think in the radio
    story about Big George Latimer, the corrupt political boss, getting
    back at Superman with kryptonite in an auditorium full of people.
    both Bruce and Dick are there, and I think there's some indication
    that Dick knew Superman's identity, but I'm not sure.

    In the comic books in the 1960s, Dick Grayson went away to college
    and, by sometime in the early 80s, was on his own and working with
    the Titans.  Meanwhile, Batman found another boy to befriend, and
    eventually DIck Grayson decided to adopt a new persona as "Nighwing,"
    and the new boy became Robin.  I don't know if he ever learned
    Superman's identity.  The new Robin was eventually killed off, and
    there's been at least one more Robin since.

    When Lois and Clark got married on the TV show back sometime in the
    1990s, they also got married in the comic books the same week.  In
    the comic book version, Lois is out apartment-hunting and can't find
    anything decent in the tight Metropolis housing market.  When she
    finally finds a place she likes, there's a waiting list.

    Later, Superman is out doing his usual thing, and he comes across
    Batman.  Batman says that Clark and Lois should enjoy their honeymoon
    because he has arranged for other superheros to cover Metropolis for
    a couple of weeks, telling them only that Superman is on a secret
    mission.  And, he and Lois got that apartment -- Bruce Wayne owns the
    building.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     15 Court Square, Suite 210                 Fax [removed]
    Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 07:56:03 -0400
    From: Brightstar2761@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Day Superman Confessed

    Well it took a bit of doing but I finally found out when Clark Kent
    confessed he was Superman to Bruce Wayne.  At the end of the December 6
    1945 episode, Clark drives over to Wayne's house, because he needs Batman &
    Robin's help in locating the two remaining pieces of Kryptonite.  Wayne
    essentially asks Kent If you want Batman why come to me?  This episode ends
    with Jackson Beck asking "Will Clark Kent Reveal his most closely guarded
    secret???".  And it's on the Friday, December 7 1945 episode Clark Kent
    confesses to Bruce Wayne that he is Superman

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 07:56:23 -0400
    From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Corris Archer

    Hi Everybody

    the question was ask in the last OTR digest how long did Meet Corliss Archer
    run?  I believe the first show is in the SPERDVAC archive.  Janet Waldo did
    not play the lead from the beginning.  I enjoy the series and we do not have
    to many of them around.  Janet  has emailed me that she is very surprise how
    few shows exist from that run.  I think it ran from 1942 to 12-25-53.  I
    have not check with Dunning book for the dates of the series.  Janet Waldo
    play the lead for most of the run, and she is one of my favorite people of
    this hobby.  She is very, very, very warm, and she is looking for copies of
    shows that she worked on during the Golden Days of radio.  Take care,

    Walden Hughes

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 07:56:42 -0400
    From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  batman

    Hi Everybody,

    I believe the first time Robin appeared on Superman was 3-1-45.  He did not
    know who was Superman, and he was looking for help to find his pal.  I have
    heard most of the run, and I have not recall that Robin ever knew who was
    superman.  Take care,

    Walden Hughes

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 07:57:20 -0400
    From: Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: "Meet Corliss Archer"

    At 9:59 PM -0400 6/1/06, Kenneth Clarke wrote:

>           I've heard several people here mention a radio series called "Meet
>     Corliss
>     Archer".

    I hadn't heard of the radio series either, but I've seen a few episodes of
    the TV version. Here in the Kalamazoo area, channel 64 sometimes runs old
    TV shows (Lone Ranger, Lassie, Life with Elizabeth (?) (with a very young
    Betty White), and Meet Corliss Archer. I'd also be interested in hearing
    about either version.
    --
    Steve Salaba

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 08:35:51 -0400
    From: "Ron Vanover" <rvanover@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Seabiscuit

    Jack French asked:

>     He is trying to put together a tribute to the great racing horse,
>     Seabiscuit, and is trying to locate any audio copies of his famous
>     races, many of which were aired on network radio, usually live.

    There are at least five races that were circulated a couple of years ago.
    They are all small and I would be happy to share them by email if provided
    an address in the Digest.

    Ron

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:01:19 -0400
    From: Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Gerald Nachman

    Is Gerald Nachman on this list, or does anyone have his email
    address? Please email me off list.

    Thanks,
    Jordan R. Young

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:01:45 -0400
    From: "Jim Gordon" <jimgordon88@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE

    Hello

    Can any readers cast some light onto the background of the above show? It
    contents are well described by it's title. The series consists of short
    dramatisations of  supernatural or mysterious events, which, supposedly,
    happened. It is commonly available, as a complete series of 80 episodes,
    from many OTR dealers.

    It's background is a mystery as there are no closing [removed] on
    the internet has indicated that one Ken Nordine, a veteran Jazz musician and
    " media personality " was involved with the series. Also, despite the fact
    that the style of the show is very much OTR and I originally thought dated
    from the 40's or early 50's, there is one episode that mentions the moon
    landing of 1969.

    Was ' Incredible But True ' made for broadcast radio or some other medium?
    I wonder if some reader could clear up this particular mystery with some
    information about the programme.

    Thank you

    Jim Gordon
    Dundee
    Scotland

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 14:26:31 -0400
    From: Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR and the Big Black Dial

    I'm sure some works have probably explored this, but
    it would be interesting to explore the impact of
    different (pre-1950) radios on people's listening
    experience.  For example, when I hear people
    reminiscing, a lot of the time it's Zenith and the
    green tuning eye (which would be on the '38-40 models)
     The Big Black Dial seems to have been the most
    memorable.  In newer movies   about vintage periods,
    it's most likely to be a Zenith.  One hardly ever sees
    an RCA or Philco, etc.

    Of 6 pre-1942 consoles I have, I have 2 Zeniths, one
    '38 9-S-262, and a '41 7-S-557.  Collectibility drops
    off sharply after the 1940 model year, but I could see
    why the earlier models made such an impression on
    people.  It had a lot of great features, such as what
    collectors term the "shutter-dial", more accurately
    called "the robot dial", in which each band,
    shortwave, police, AM flippped its dial when you set
    the switch, so only one was showing at a time.

    As not to clutter up the Digest if this gets a lot of
    responses, please feel free to email me with any
    reminisces of what radio you listened to in the OTR
    era.  You can probably even find the model number at
    [removed] under archives.

    (Btw, there's very little demand for post 1940
    consoles, so that's a cheap way to get started if you
    want to go the vintage route).  Ironically, it's the
    cheapie radios from back then, the catalins, that go
    for the most nowadays!

    Trav

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:23:03 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Seabiscuit [removed]

    Thanks to Digesters Michael Berger, Ken Stockinger, and Jim Widner who
    furnished leads in locating five different races of Seabiscuit in audio
    form.

    Ed Walker is very grateful for the speedy assistance.  He will be
    airing a "Seabiscuit special" this fall as part of his three hour
    program, "The Big Broadcast" which airs every Sunday night on WAMU-FM,
    [removed] on your dial,  from the American University studios in Washington,
    DC.

    Ed was so taken with the Talking Books version of the history of
    Seabiscuit (which was made into a recent film) that he wanted to pay
    tribute to this horse on his radio show.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 23:58:03 -0400
    From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Seabiscuit

    About the time of the SEABISCUIT movie PBS did a doucmentary on the
    legendary horse. There was "furthur information" on the PBS website at the
    time, which included streaming audio of 4 or 5 radio calls of races in which
    Seabiscuit ran.  I listened to them, but didn't record them.  So they're out
    there and someone must have them.

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