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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 497

Table Of Contents: 

	 Introduction
	 Bold Venture
	 DISTINCTIVE VOICES
	 George Bailey, The Shadow and Elmer Fudd -Wrandalf Wradcliff
	 Shades of [removed]
	 IN THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 12:52:41 -0500
From: AIC4Radio2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Introduction
Message-ID: <961223124058_1289354468@[removed]>

Well, I wanted to comment on the recent reincarnation of the Mrs. Calabash
question, but I realized that I had not yet introduced myself to the group.
 So, here [removed]

My name is Barbara Cook, and I am the Customer Service Manager for Adventures
in Cassettes.  I have been reading the OTR Digest over Sue Hamilton's
shoulder for the last two years, so I feel like I know many of you already.
 Actually, I do know a few of you from my attendance at the FOTR Conventions
these last 3 years.  Hi all.

As the "baby" of AIC, (now at 31 years) I did not have a vast knowledge of
OTR when I began this job. That is to say, I remembered the CBS Radio Mystery
Theater, and knew who Abbott & Costello were. But that was six years and
many, many tapes [removed] 

My favorite OTR series are: Escape, Voyage of the Scarlet Queen, Phil
Harris/Alice Faye, Jack Benny and The Whistler,and anything with Elliot
Lewis. It's actually my job to listen to tapes, what could be better!?

AIC recently put me online to help out Sue Hamilton with the e-mail load.  I
now receive all the catalog requests, online orders, and customer inquiries
for AIC and our web site at my address: AIC4Radio2@[removed]  Sue Hamilton can
still be e-mailed personally at the AIC4Radio@[removed] address.

*****************

Now, on to Mrs. [removed] The latest issue of 'Reminisce' magazine (Jan-Feb
1997) has a one page article devoted to answering the question of Mrs.
Calabash's identity.  Summed up, it states that she was the owner of a small
restaurant in Calabash, North Carolina.  Apparently, Durante appreciated her
fine service and told her he would make her famous.  [removed] if anyone
would like to see the complete article, I would be happy to fax or mail a
copy of it to you, just let me know by e-mail. 

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a definitive answer to these questions once
in awhile?

Barbara Cook
Adventures in Cassettes
website:  [removed]
e-mail:    AIC4Radio2@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 17:05:47 -0500
From: JRayb71827@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Bold Venture
Message-ID: <961223140122_169648006@[removed]>

   Forgive me for not remembering who talked with Lauren Bacall and found she
had one (I think) copy of "Bold Venture."  With the holiday period, I may
have missed whether anyone responded but, just in case, the folks at
Adventures In Cassettes are showing 24 programs of "Bold Venture" in their
catalog.  Each six-tape collection (12 shows) is listed at $[removed] and the
order numbers are AB070 and AB108. The AIC phone is 1-800-328-0108.  I hope
word gets to "Sailor Duval" so she can get copies.
   Thanks for all the OTR Digest input from all of you and particularly for
the personal E-mail concerning my OTR newsletter and other topics.  Merry
Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, etc.  May 1997 be a blockbuster
year for all of you.
          John Rayburn

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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 14:53:19 -0800
From: BURT WILSON <futurecon@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: DISTINCTIVE VOICES
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i would add to Dick Lupoff's list of "distinctive" news voices that of
Martin Agronsky, the old leftist, and Sam Hays.  I'm not sure Sam Hays
was nationwide, but he was sure all over California.  I remember meeting
Sam Hays one day in the late 30's when he was making an appearance at a
local grocery store (remember them?) which consisted, of all things, of
him frying up sausages!  His sponsor's product!  Had to be very
demeaning.

...sing, Dennis.

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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 16:43:10 -0600
From: [removed]@[removed] (Donald Dortmund)
To: [removed]@[removed] 
Subject: George Bailey, The Shadow and Elmer Fudd -Wrandalf Wradcliff
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  I just heard the Lux radio version of 
  "It's A Wonderful Life" with Bill Johnstone as Mr. Bailey, 
  
  and also The Screen Directors Playhouse version of
  "It's A Wonderful Life" with Arthur Q, Brian as Clarence the angel.
  
  so if we put them both together we get something like [removed]
  
   
  Mr Bailey: George, I KNOW WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND!
  
  George: You ah , DO?.How, how do you [removed]
  
  Mr Bailey: (sinister laugh)
  
  ================================================
   
  Clarence:Oh you raskely human, you, ahahahahaha, so do you want to 'liv' 
  ahahahahaha, ?
  
   
  
  

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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 19:36:27 -0500
From: Andrew Rodriguez <nasty@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Shades of [removed]
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  I would like to thank both John R. Pellatt and Anthony Tollin for their
inputs into "Orson" and who did what before the show aired. I only have a
few episodes and so I work from a sparse expertise. I thought that "Orson"
might have something to do with the story "The Silent avenger" because of
the high moral tone expressed in it's story. The wrap up towards the end of
the story sounded so much like "Welles" had written it. But [removed] Thanks
for the [removed]
    Happy [removed]

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 04:01:27 EST
From: Thomas Heathwood <theathwo@[removed]>
To: <otr@[removed]>
Subject: IN THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Dear Readers/Participants:

In the Christmas Spirit, may we all unite this year around a dear friend
who has lost "everything" and has no place to turn but to his friends.

A donation to Bill Pfeiffer and his Mom will be appreciated beyond our
capacity to understand and fathom the depth of sadness that Bill and his
mother must feel this year.

At Christmas, we are taught, a miracle ocurred 2000 years ago. May we
create a modern-day miracle by offering whatever we can to help these
folks back to some kind of life?  We can never restore all the treasured
items they lost, and the history that was lost with them. We can,
however, give them some meaningful material "things" to help them to
continue living, even in the aftermath of disaster.

I ask that every one of us give to Bill and mother's well-being in the
name of the Christmas Spirit, and that are help will be sufficient to at
least put them back on the road to recovery and rehabilitation.  Please
join me, won't you, in an old-fashioned Christmas that symbolizes man's
caring for man.  It's especially hard for many of us to give a lot at this
time of the year, but give what you can. It's two human lives with whom we
have a personal connection! Never forget Bill's never-ending generosity in
giving us the OTR DIGEST, and funding it single-handed to keep what we all
love and enjoy alive.  Now we MUST pay him back. Give as much as you can.

Send your contributions to BILL PFEIFFER, PO BOX 8746, Springfield, MO
[removed] be sure to send Bill and his mother a Christmas note of
cheer!!
<<TOM HEATHWOOD/HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE/YESTERDAY-USA SATELLITE RADIO
  NETWORK/SUPERSTATION>> PO BOX 16/BOSTON/MA/02167 FAX: (617)965-9984

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