Subject: [removed] Digest V2008 #287
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Date: 12/17/2008 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 287
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

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                                     Today's Topics:

      Dinah Shore question                  [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed] ]
      Australian version of the Fat Man     [ Larry Husch <lshusch@[removed]; ]
      12-17 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:26:42 -0500
    From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Dinah Shore question

    I have two copies of Dinah Shore Birds Eye Open House 44-11-16 with guest
    Charles Laughton and I am curious about something.

    My first copy of that program opens with the announcer saying "The
    Dinah Shore Program", which would stand to reason to be the AFRS
    program name. It then goes into the opening song. There is no close ID
    b/c the file cuts off.

    The second copy opens with the announcer saying "Birds Eye Frosted
    Foods Birds Eye Open House starring Dinah Shore with her special guest
    Charles Laughton." It then goes into the opening song. One would assume
    this was the sponsored version, *however* at 28:29 the announcer
    says "This is the Armed Forces Radio Network"

    I have never heard a brand name kept in the name of the program on the
    AFRS and am curious if anyone knows what is the situation with the
    second program. Why 2 different openings? Why a brand name in the title
    of an AFRS program?

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    Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:03:54 -0500
    From: Larry Husch <lshusch@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Australian version of the Fat Man

    In response to Jim Kitchen's inquiry about the Australian version of the
    Fat Man, there is a log on the Australian Old Time Radio site:

    [removed]+man&Submit=++++Click+Here+to+View+Logs++++

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    Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:26:54 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-17 births/deaths

    December 17th births

    12-17-1892 - T. Frederick Candlyn - England - d. 12-16-1964
    pianist: WGY Schenectady, New York
    12-17-1895 - Rudolph Anders - Germany - d. 3-27-1987
    actor: Dr. VanMeter "Space Patrol"
    12-17-1896 - Arthur Fiedler - South Boston, MA - d. 7-10-1979
    conductor: "Robert Merrill with the Boston Pops Orchestra"; "Boston
    Pops"
    12-17-1900 - Katina Paxinou - Piraeus, Greece - d. 2-22-1973
    actor: "Suspense"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    12-17-1900 - Norman Cloutier - Hartford, CT - d. 9-7-1962
    orchestra leader: "Cloutier Calling"; "Cosmopolitan Melodies"
    12-17-1902 - House Jameson - Austin, TX - d. 4-23-1971
    actor: Sam Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Inspector Douglas Renfrew
    "Renfrew of the Mounted"
    12-17-1903 - Erskine Caldwell - Morland, GA - d. 4-11-1987
    playwright: "Information, Please"; "Short Story"
    12-17-1905 - Stella Unger - NYC - d. 2-15-1970
    commentator: "Hecker's Information Bureau"; "Your Hollywood News Girl"
    12-17-1906 - Martin Skiles - d. 5-1-1981
    music: "Mr. Aladdin"
    12-17-1907 - Frank Gill - d. 7-11-1970
    writer, comedian: "Joe E. Brown's Post Toasties Show"
    12-17-1909 - Murray Brody - d. 6-16-2004
    producer: KOH Reno, Nevada
    12-17-1910 - Spade Cooley - Oklahoma Territory - d. 11-23-1969
    western singer: (Rider's of the Purple Sage) "Spade Cooley Show"
    12-17-1911 - Jennie Land - St. Louis, MO
    singer: "Dramas of Youth"; "Musical Grocery Store"
    12-17-1911 - Richard Sale - NYC - d. 3-4-1993
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-17-1913 - Herbert Nelson - Stillwater, MN - d. 7-19-1990
    actor: Ralph Fraser "Dan Harding's Wife"; George Lawlor "Romance of
    Helen Trent"
    12-17-1919 - Edward "Shrimp" Wragge - NYC - d. 12-22-1992
    actor: "Gold Spot Pal"
    12-17-1926 - Patricia Brooks - Chicago, IL
    announcer, scriptwriter: "Weekly Women's Magazine"
    12-17-1927 - Richard Long - Chicago, IL - d. 12-21-1974
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Proudly We Hail"
    12-17-1928 - Julia Meade - Boston, MA
    actor: 'Your Hit Parade"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    12-17-1929 - William Safire - NYC
    producer: "Tex McCrary Show"
    12-17-1930 - Bill Beutel - Cleveland, OH - d. 3-18-2006
    news reporter: "New York 1960"

    December 17th deaths

    01-01-1909 - Dana Andrews - Collins, MS - d. 12-17-1992
    actor: Matt Cevetic "I Was A Communist for the FBI"
    03-01-1914 - Gil Doud - Minnesota - d. 12-17-1957
    writer, director: "Sam Spade"; "Escape"; "One out of Seven"; "Pat
    Novak for Hire"
    04-07-1942 - Joel Dorn - Yeadon, PA - d. 12-17-2007
    disk jockey: WHAT-FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    05-06-1914 - Arline Blackburn - NYC - d. 12-17-1994
    actor: Kitty Kelly "Pretty Kitty Kelly"; Eileen Turner "The O'Neills"
    06-13-1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers - Oxford, England - d. 12-17-1957
    writer: "He That Should Come: A Nativity Play"
    06-18-1901 - Jimmy Dale - The Bronx, NY - d. 12-17-1982
    pianist, arranger: "Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra"
    07-04-1895 - Irving Caesar - NYC - d. 12-17-1996
    lyricist: "Biography In Sound"; "Perspective"
    07-04-1915 - Timmie Rogers - Detroit, MI - d. 12-17-2006
    actor: "Jubilee"
    07-10-1889 - Noble Sissle - Indianapolis, IN - d. 12-17-1975
    songwriter, orchestra leader: "Freedom's People"
    07-11-1892 - Thomas Mitchell - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 12-17-1962
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
    07-18-1910 - Wyn Sayre - Lakeview, IA - d. 12-17-2007
    singer: (Doring Sisters) "Contented Hour"
    08-28-1907 - Sam Levene - NYC - d. 12-17-1980
    comedian: "Fred Allen Show"
    11-14-1894 - James Van Dyk - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-17-1951
    actor: Clyde Houston "Lora Lawton"; Dick Phillips "Rosemary"
    12-29-1938 - Don Chevrier - Toronto, Canada - d. 12-17-2007
    sports announcer: "Cassius Clay vs. George Chauvalo"
    12-31-1921 - Rex Allen - Wilcox, AZ - d. 12-17-1999
    country/western singer: "Country Music Time"; "Country Hoedown"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:12:01 -0500
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
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    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
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