Subject: [removed] Digest V01 #83
From: <[removed]@[removed]>
Date: 3/13/2001 12:53 PM

To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                          The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                             Volume 01 : Issue 83
                       A Part of the [removed]!
                               ISSN: 1533-9289

                               Today's Topics:

     New edition of The Great Radio Heroe ["Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@]
     Re: Mysteries in the Air             ["G. S. Cole" <gscole@[removed];]
     The Gentler Gender                   ["Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@]
     Costello's Daughter                  ["Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@]
     FM and TV                            ["Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@]
     Old Recording - Wilbur Sweatman      ["Kevin Pearson" <ktrek@[removed]]
     Re: "Of Mikes and Men"               [Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed]]
     RE: December Bride                   [Jack Harris <jack@[removed]]
     Re: December Bride                   ["Gerald D. Wright" <gdwright@atdial]
     Mary's lines                         [JackBenny@[removed]                  ]
     December Bride                       ["Richard Pratz" <[removed]@home]
     selected shorts                      [leonardfass@[removed] (Leonard Fass]
     FRED FLINTSTONE IN OTR???            ["David Phaneuf" <dphaneuf@[removed]]
     Re: radio dials & other delights     [MoondanceFF@[removed]                ]
     Re: OTR women!                       [MoondanceFF@[removed]                ]
     Jack Benny theme                     ["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed].]
     Of Brides and Badges                 [KENPILETIC@[removed]                 ]
     Re: Old Recording (Wilbur Sweatman)  [GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@]
     MacDonald Carey                      [ChibiBarako <cvc@[removed];           ]
     NY POST TO PUT ALL ARCHIVES ON LINE! [GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@]
     Batman                               [Steven Napier <otrfan@[removed]]
     Re: Wilbur Sweatman                  [Jshnay1@[removed]                    ]
     Jeapordy catagory                    [K <khowdy@[removed];              ]
     Staring at the radio                 [George Aust <austhaus1@[removed]]

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    Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:36:24 -0500
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  New edition of The Great Radio Heroes

    Stephen Jansen noted,

> >     I posted a few days ago about the new release of the book "The Great

    Radio Heroes" by Jim Harmon.  This is the revised edition, however, I do
    not have the original 1967 copy to compare this to.  <snip> 18 Chapters
    featuring  I Love A Mystery, Gangbusters, The Shadow, scary shows, comic
    book heroes, Tom Mix, Radio Premiums, Detectives, Newsmen, soap opera
    heroes, Lone Ranger, Sgt Preston, Green Hornet, Capt Midnight, Jack
    Armstrong, comedy heroes, american indian
    heroes, and more mysteries by Morse. <<

    The original was/is 15 chapters, featuring I Love A Mystery, Carleton E
    Morse, The Shadow, Inner Sanctum (and others), comic book heroes, Tom
    Mix, Radio Premiums, Detectives, Newsmen, soap operas, The Lone Ranger,
    Sgt. Preston, Green Hornet, Aviators, Jack Armstrong, and an Afterword.
    No photos.  No index.   It was/is 263 pages long.  However, without
    knowing book size, word count per page, and the like, I've no idea
    whether he dropped items to make space for the new stuff, etc.  Also, the
    "Captain Midnight" chapter could be much the same as the old aviators
    chapter, titled, "Aces of the Airwaves," which started with Captain
    Midnight, but also included others (Hop Harrigan, Sky King, etc.).

    I intend to get a copy eventually, but I haven't seen it yet.
    Regrettably,  this truncates anything much I can say on the new version,
    but in the light of the threads on "accuracy in books," I can say
    something about the original that _might_ extend to the revised edition.
    The original is a wonderful nostalgia trip, but it didn't appear to be
    written as a scholarly text.  I took it to be intended to introduce the
    old radio days to newcomers and stir fond memories among older readers.
    I've read my first edition many times, and even when I find something
    that doesn't track with any research or memory I've got, it doesn't stop
    me from enjoying the book.  However, I accept it as nostalgia, not as a
    primary reference.

    To take an example I'm very familiar with, in the "Aces of the Airwaves"
    chapter, Jim Harmon writes in his first version that in the Big Little
    Book adaptation of the radio show, Chuck Ramsay, Joyce Ryan, and Major
    Barry Steele were the prisoners of The Barracuda.  Troops were coming to
    get them from their cell during the middle of the night, but as they were
    approaching, and a tower clock was stroking 12, the sound of an airplane
    could be heard.  Then he writes,

            "'Captain Midnight!' the three members of the Secret Squadron
    yelled out together.
            "Yes, high above in the black sky, it was the _Sky King_, the
    plane of Captain Midnight."

    However, in the book he cites, the actual incident was, after the drone
    of a number of low-flying planes was first heard,

            "'Listen! Listen!' Chick cried
            Seven -- eight
            "'What's that?' Colonel Goto asked, with a tremor of rage in his
    voice.
            "Nine -- ten --
            "'It's Captain Midnight!' Major Steele said, incredulously.
            "Eleven -- twelve --
            "'Captain MIDNIGHT!' cried Joyce and Chuck.
            "The Barracuda turned and motioned for Colonel Goto to leave."

    Now, notwithstanding that it was a Better Little Book rather than a Big
    Little Book, there was no mention of Captain Midnight's airplane, either
    in the book or in the radio show it was derived from.  As noted, the
    drone in the program and book was from more than one plane -- actually,
    quite a number of them.  For that matter, the aircraft Captain Midnight
    had been flying at the beginning of the book and program adventure was a
    multi-place amphibian that had been shot down by The Barracuda's pilots
    after an ambush.  The aircraft Captain Midnight was flying was one loaned
    by Chinese forces headed by a Major Sun.  Additionally, Major Steele was
    Captain Midnight's superior, but was not a member of the Secret Squadron.

    Normally, I wouldn't nitpick, but I did here to bring out the point that
    at least the initial offering from Jim Harmon should in no means be taken
    as a legitimate reference book.  Have the errors of the first version
    been corrected in the second?  I won't know until I get my hands on a
    copy.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:10:10 -0500
    From: "G. S. Cole" <gscole@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Mysteries in the Air

    Does anybody know anything about a program called MYSTERIES IN THE AIR
    now running on our local public radio station?

    This seems to be a modern reworking of CRIME  CLASSICS.  The scripts are
    by by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. Narrated by David Warner with a
    touch of sardonic humor.

    I would guess this series was recorded about a decade ago. There is a
    live audience as evidenced by occasional bursts of laughter.

    George S. Cole

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    Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:10:07 -0500
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Gentler Gender

    Lois Culver, commenting on Elizabeth E.'s observation about "no women" in
    OTR asks,

> >     What am I, chopped liver?<<

    No.  Mrs. Straight Arrow.

    The gentler gender is well represented in the hobby.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:09:58 -0500
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Costello's Daughter

    Duane Kielstrup notes,

> >     Scheduled for a live interview is Chris Costello, Lou Costello's

    daughter, on Tuesday night, March 13, at 10:40 Eastern on Yesterday USA
    at [removed]. <<

    Chris Costello is the author of Lou's On First, her biography of her
    father.  It's a book worth a read; I own a copy.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:09:56 -0500
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  FM and TV

    Bill Harris notes, to people receiving TV audio on their FM radios,

> >     You are actually listening to the fundamental frequency of the sound

    carrier on [removed] MHz for channel 6. A harmonic is a multiple of the
    fundamental frequency, the second harmonic would be on [removed] [removed];<

    The FM band lies between Channel 6 and Channel 7.  Some radios made
    outside the [removed] have a wider frequency range wider than domestic.  With
    some radios, you may be able to hear both channel 6 and channel 7 sound,
    though two adjacent TV channels are rare,

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:09:53 -0500
    From: "Kevin Pearson" <ktrek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Old Recording - Wilbur Sweatman

    David I found the following below about Sweatman. It appears the "Original
    Jazz Band has only two recorded songs:
    "Ev'rybody's Crazy 'Bout The Doggone Blues, But I'm Happy" and also
    "Regretful Blues" both recorded in March of 1918. He was band leader in 6
    other bands as well. Hope this helps!
    Kevin
    Wilbur Sweatman's musical career reads like the history of African Americans
    in popular music. He got his professional start in a circus band, then moved
    on to minstrel shows and vaudeville. He led a successful syncopated
    orchestra based in Chicago early in the century and made the first recording
    of Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1903. In the years before World War I,
    Wilbur Sweatman lead at the Big Grand Theatre in Chicago (31st Street and
    State). He moved to New York in 1913 and was one of the first African
    Americans to join ASCAP in 1917. After the success of Original Dixieland
    Jass Band, Sweatman jumped on the jazz bandwagon and released dozens of
    records in the Teens and 1920s the most famous being "Down Home Rag". He is
    remembered less as a jazz musician and more as a great showman. He was
    famous for playing at first two then three clarinets at once. Duke Ellington
    Sonny Greer, Otto Hardwick, and Coleman Hawkins all played in his orchestra
    early in their careers. In the 1930s he was active in music publishing and
    was the executor of Scott Joplin's estate. Unfortunately after Sweatman's
    death in 1961, Joplin's estate fell into disarray and many unpublished and
    original manuscripts were lost. In the 1940s he led a trio at Paddells Club
    in New York and continued to play live into the 1950s.

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    Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:09:49 -0500
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: "Of Mikes and Men"

    Tom Thomas wonders,

>     I'm curious whether anyone is familiar with
>     this book, and if it is accurate, or whether it's only loosely based on
>     radio of that period.  The radio station is KUKU in Portland, Oregon.  That
>     name, and a description of the station manager beating the phone company out
>     of installation and connection charges by stringing cable through the sewer
>     for a remote broadcast make me wonder.  Is it intended to be more
>     entertainment - which it definitely is - or is it factual.  I'm having
>     trouble with the cable story, but I've learned of many strange things
>     before.

    This is an interesting book-- while not a historic treatise, it does
    present a reasonable portrayal of small-time radio circa 1930. But there
    was no station KUKU -- these calls were, in fact, used by humorist
    Raymond Knight on his satirical "KUKU Hour" program on NBC during the
    early thirties.  Woodfin has changed the name of the station -- and
    perhaps other details -- to protect the innocent. However, she has left
    certain clues that make it possible to deduce where she really worked.

    Woodfin's "KUKU" had been part of the "Golden West Network" but was not
    affiliated with any of the major networks. This rules out KOIN (a CBS
    affiliate), and KGW and KEX (NBC affiliates.)  "Golden West" is clearly
    not the KMPC/KSFO "Golden West Network" of the 1940s and later --
    instead, it can be deduced that the network was actually the original
    American Broadcasting Company, a Seattle-based regional network which
    existed from 1927 thru 1930. It is mentioned that "Golden West" was in
    deep financial trouble in 1930, and eventually folded -- precisely
    fitting what actually happened to the 1920s ABC.

    Woodfin was still working at the station in question in 1951, according
    to her biography on the dust-jacket flap of the book. By examining
    various listings of Portland stations and comparing them with the factual
    nuggets Woodfin offers, it appears that station KWJJ was in fact the
    station described in the book -- a station which was when I last checked
    still alive and well at 1080 on the AM dial. KWJJ had been an affiliate
    of the ill-fated west coast ABC in the late twenties, and is the only
    Portland station to fit all of the various other clues offered by
    Woodfin.

    I really got a kick out of this book. When I first read it,in the
    mid-eighties, I was working at a dying 1000-watt AM station, and my
    situation was eerily similar to that which Woodfin describes. On more
    than one occasion, I too was paid in barter -- once I was told to go into
    the production studio and help myself to an Akai reel-to-reel tape
    recorder, because there was no money to pay me. On another occasion, I
    stood by waiting for the station owner to convince his mother to sign her
    social security check over to him in order to cover my salary. And there
    was another incident in which a deputy sherrif took the owner away in
    handcuffs on several charges of negotiating worthless instruments, after
    we of the station staff decided that we had finally had enough. Toward
    the end, one of our salesmen -- who had a second job as a professional
    gravedigger -- took to carrying a revolver, figuring force might be
    necessary to ensure that he would be the first to get paid each week. So
    while some of the incidents described by Woodfin appear farfetched, I can
    testify from experience that there are few things on earth that are
    cheesier than a struggling smalltime radio station -- and it has ever
    been so. Nothing Woodfin describes is too exaggerated for me to believe.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:09:47 -0500
    From: Jack Harris <jack@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RE: December Bride

    I am afraid Frosty you will have to eat the [removed];G>....The show was on
    CBS from 6/8/52 to 5/27/53.  Starring Hal March and Spring
    Byington.  Byington of course went on to star in the tv series from 10/4/54
    to 9/24/59.  According to Hickerson there are 4 radio shows available.  I
    too remember the tv show and would love to see them aired [removed]

    Jack

    for dive videos, computers and astronomy
    visit [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:09:45 -0500
    From: "Gerald D. Wright" <gdwright@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: December Bride

    Yes, December Bride was on the radio from June 8, 1952 to Sept. 6, 1953,
    originally as a summer replacement in the Jack Benny time slot. It
    starred Spring Byington as Lily Ruskin, Doris Singleton as Ruth Henshaw,
    Hal March as Matt Henshaw, and Hans Conried as Pete Porter. The show
    made it's first appearance on television in 1954. -- Source: John
    Dunning's On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio.

    Gerry Wright
    ZoneZebra Productions
    San Francisco

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    Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:09:43 -0500
    From: JackBenny@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mary's lines

    It is true that Mary was recording at least some of her appearances from
    home.  I recently heard a show where you could pretty clearly hear that
    Mary's voice was in a different "environment" (flatter sound, less echo).
    The laughs were still good, and the editing was quite impressive, maintaining
    the proper timing.  However, I took note that the writers seemed to be
    crafting her lines with the consciousness of her absence.  She seemed to have
    fewer, shorter lines and fewer overall jokes.

    There are two versions of the 5/22/55 show circulating, one with an actress
    portraying Mary and one with Mary's voice inserted.  Joan may have filled in
    sometimes (I've also heard that Jack's secretary would read them from time to
    time), but it doesn't sound like her in that final show.

    --Laura Leff
    President, IJBFC
    [removed]

    [removed]  By the way, I'm a woman in OTR as well.  Just ask my husband.

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    Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:09:40 -0500
    From: "Richard Pratz" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: "OTR (Plain Text Only)" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  December Bride

    Frosty asked if December Bride was on radio. How do you like your crow,
    medium or well done? I can see everyone racing to their Dunning encyclopedia
    now!! I'll try to keep it short, but if Frosty can obtain Dunning's "On The
    AIr" the Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio, he'll find it all spelled out in
    detail on page 196. As much as I don't like copying from Dunning and merely
    passing it [removed]'ll just paraphrase;  The radio sitcom aired in '52 and
    '53 and was, at one point, a summer replacement show for Jack Benny. As
    later on TV, Lily Ruskin was played by Spring Byington. The radio show also
    featured Doris Singleton, Hal March, Hans Conreid, John Brown & Alan Reed.
    I like Dunning's quote - "On a smaller scale, December Bride did for
    mothers-in-law what Eve Arden did for schoolteachers in Our Miss Brooks:
    made them human."

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    Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:20:13 -0500
    From: leonardfass@[removed] (Leonard Fass)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  selected shorts

    heard in [removed] on sat at 8:00 pm on kqed-fm

    keep on keeping on
    [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:49:16 -0500
    From: "David Phaneuf" <dphaneuf@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  FRED FLINTSTONE IN OTR???

    Been listening to some Life of Riley tapes and the voice of one of the
    actors sounds an awful lot like the voice of Fred Flintstone.  I've not been
    able to catch the name of the actor, who plays a variety of parts: Riley's
    father-in-law in one episode, the father of Junior's girlfriend in another,
    and <I think> his boss at the plant in another.

    Anyone know if this is the same actor, what his name is, and what other
    acting he did?   It seems to me I've heard that voice in several other OTR
    programs, though I don't recall which ones.

    Dave Phaneuf

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:00:28 -0500
    From: MoondanceFF@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: radio dials & other delights

    In a message dated 3/12/01 12:56:32 PM, Stephen K. writes:

    << Umm ... the dials in out house glowed steadily, if they glowed at all. >>

    See? On no other e-group would we be having this gentle discussion on this
    subject! Thanks for the wry smiles. Now, of course I knew someone would
    comment that the glowing dial didn't generally "flicker", but ours did. We
    were in Fairbanks, Alaska, circa1952, in the dead of a long 60-below winter
    (shades of Sam McGee!) with no sunlight all day, the huskies were howling at
    the aurora borealis flashing overhead, which phenomenon probably caused the
    fading in & out of the electricity & the radio signal from "Outside", as we
    called the lower 48.

    Cheers!--Elizabeth E.

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:00:30 -0500
    From: MoondanceFF@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: OTR women!

    In a message dated 3/12/01 12:56:32 PM, Lois writes:

    << What am I, chopped liver? >>

    I hear a New Yorker amongst us! Hooray! Greetings, Lois, Diane & Mary Anne!

    --EE ;o)

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:00:32 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Benny theme

>     Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 01:09:40 -0500
>     From: JackBenny@[removed]

>     During the interview itself, he said that the opening theme of the
>     program was "Hooray for Hollywood".  ... He stood by his statement,
>     noting that he had heard it hundreds of times.

    Of course he had.  "Hooray for Hollywood" was the closing theme.  "Love in
    Bloom" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy" was the opening theme.  But, so far as I
    can tell, this was only true with the Lucky Strike shows.  They had a
    different opening before that.

    The memory is the second thing to go.  I forget what the first is.

     A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                        [removed]
     15 Court Square                     lawyer@[removed]
     Boston, MA 02108-2503      [removed]~lawyer/

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:00:34 -0500
    From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Of Brides and Badges

    Hi Gang -                         Monday - March 12, 2001 - 10:40 PM cst

    In issue 82, Froty Povick wonders whether DECEMBER BRIDE
    was on radio before it was on Television.

    According to Dunning, DECEMBER BRIDE was on radio from
    June 8, 1952 through September 6, 1954.   Not knowing when it
    was on TV, I can only state that it may have been on radio before,
    after, or during the time it was on television.  In any event, it was
    definitely a radio program as well as a TV program.

    In the same issue, MoondanceFF mentions "aural memories".
    Sometimes the memories are not remembered correctly.

    For example:
    I heard the famous line:  "Badges?  We don't need any stinking
    badges!" repeated on radio many times, long before I finally saw
    a videotape of "Treasure of the Sierra Madre".  I'm not much of a
    movie-goer - but that line has been made famous in audio history,
    even without the picture.

    Unfortunately, the actual line was: "Badges?  We ain't got no badges.
    We don't need no badges.  I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges."
    (1:08 into the tape).    So much for aural "memories".

    See you in Cincinnati -- Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois
    kenpiletic@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:23:26 -0500
    From: GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Old Recording (Wilbur Sweatman)

         Wilbur Sweatman was an East Coast Afro-American
    bandleader in the late 'teens and early 1920s.
         He's not very highly regarded by most jazz
    musicologists - their loss, I think. I believe
    Sweatman led a truly great band, but it was more
    ragtime than true jazz.
         The young Edward "Duke" Ellington worked for
    Sweatman in the early 1920s.
         Oh, and this - as part of his stage show,
    Sweatman used to play two clarinets at once!

         George Wagner (who has trouble using two hands at
    once)
         GWAGNEROLDTIMERADIO@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:51:29 -0500
    From: ChibiBarako <cvc@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  MacDonald Carey

    I've heard several references (including his autobiography) of MacDonald
    Carey's radio career.  From one of the earlier posts I gather he was on
    Stella Dallas at one point.  Does anybody know what other productions he
    was in -- preferably recurring rather than one-offs? (It might even be
    enough to convince me to learn how to download sound files ...)

    (Of course, I know him best as the voice of the sands through the
    hourglass ... ;-)

    Cynthia

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 01:07:07 -0500
    From: GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  NY POST TO PUT ALL ARCHIVES ON LINE!

         Radio historians will want to note that the NEW
    YORK POST will soon put ALL of its archives on line -
    clear back to the founding in 1801!
         Just enter "Two Centuries of NY Post Archives to
    Hit the Web" into Google or Yahoo, and it should bring
    up a complete article on this development.

         George Wagner
         GWAGNEROLDTIMERADIO@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:28:55 -0500
    From: Steven Napier <otrfan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Batman

    Lots of great information here. This is my first post and I hope its just text
    now so it gets through.
    My favorite comic growing up was Batman. I know Batman was in the Superman
    show a couple times but I want to know if there was ever a Batman series where
    he was on his own.

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:28:53 -0500
    From: Jshnay1@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Wilbur Sweatman

    It's not really OTR, but Wilbur Sweatman was a clarinetist and band leader
    for nearly four decades. In 1906 the band made a cylinder recording of
    "Maple leaf Rag" for the Metropolitan Music Store in Minneapolis. His later
    recording history dates from 1916 to 1935. Most of those disks were made for
    Columbia. If those were Victor pressings, they were made on April 29, 1930,
    the only date he recorded for RCA.

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:28:51 -0500
    From: K <khowdy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jeapordy catagory

    I like quiz shows, while watching Jeapordy the other night, I thought of a
    OTR category for the show.  Radio Ands ( old radio shows that have "and"
    in the title   Amos and ---,  ---- and Molly, Lum and ---, --- and Albert,
    Myrt and ---).  Perhaps the readers could come up with some others, or
    perhaps some other OTR categorys.

    Keith

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    Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:47:36 -0500
    From: George Aust <austhaus1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Staring at the radio

    For the past couple of years I have been reading various posts regarding
    how people  used to look at the radio while they listened. Based on my
    own experiences I don't think that there is any great mystery involved
    nor do I think that it has much to do with lighted dials, green tuning
    eyes, or the glow from lighted tubes. I think it strictly had to do with
    the content of what one was listening to.
    If you were listening to a light music program or say Lum and Abner or
    Duffy's Tavern you probably did not look at the radio at all, but
    continued on with your homework or work on a model airplane while you
    enjoyed the programs. But if you were listening to something that really
    involved you in some way chances are that you would stare at the radio
    at as a point of concentration (after all thats where the sound is
    coming from) It might be a mystery show, or War of the Worlds, or a news
    report that really grabbed you and you needed to concentrate on what was
    being said. I can't imagine, for example, listening to a report on the
    Pearl Harbor attack coming over the air while you continued with your
    knitting. You'd look at the radio!
    By the way, we have a fire in the fireplace in our family room most
    nights during the winter and I seldom look at it. Just enjoy its warmth.
    Of course it's a gas log. Maybe it it were a would fire burning we'd
    stare at it I don't know.
    By the way My wife and I got a big laugh out of Laura Leff's glider
    story,but I don't know whether to believe it or not.

    George Aust

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