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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2017 : Issue 22
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      April Issue RADIO RECALL              [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      The Big Story                         [ Zane <intraverse@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 20:10:23 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  April Issue RADIO RECALL

    The April 2017 issue of RADIO RECALL in full-color went out to PDF
    subscribers on April 1st.  The B & W hard copy will be mailed to other
    subscribers in the next few weeks. The issue leads off with the headlined
    article on the cessation of Imagination Theatre, the Washington State based
    OTR umbrella created by Jim French. In this piece, Stewart Wright, a
    long-time affiliate of this syndicated weekly series, delineates the history
    of it and the reasons for its planned retirement.

    The history of radio's sound effects stretches all the way back to Greek
    theater and then evolved through Elizabethan stage, American vaudeville, and
    the silent film era. This second main article features Ora Nichols, the woman
    who created the craft of radio sound effects, joined CBS in 1928 and then
    recruited and trained the sound effects personnel for its network shows. The
    piece also covers animal voices, sounds of babies, and why radio's sound
    effects personnel were NOT Foley artists.

    Our third major article is Part II of the Joe Palooka broadcasting story.
    Herein, Karl Schadow describes the famous fictional boxer's radio appearances
    in the 1940s, including both syndicated versions and the attempts to get it
    on Mutual Broadcasting System. Also covered is the modest 26 episode version
    in the 1950s on television.

    No April issue would be complete with some April Foolishness so three short
    pieces fill that requirement. Mark Anderson authors an account of the MWOTRC
    members going to Dayton, Ohio to participate in a semi-pro baseball game
    while Andy Marx pens a tribute to the Vienna, VA History Players launching a
    new musical highlighting the 1815 Congress of Vienna Treaty. The third piece
    attempts to establish that Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians originally
    consisted of a native son of Transylvania, Gus Lumbago, Jr. and his Lilting
    Lumbagos,.

    All this, plus Letters to the Editor and complete details on all upcoming OTR
    events. The retiring editor of RADIO RECALL, having churned out 141
    consecutive issues over 23 plus years, says farewell to his faithful
    subscribers in one-page memory summary. His place will be taken by popular
    OTR author and historian, Martin Grams, Jr., whose first edition will be
    released in June.

    To read past issues of RADIO RECALL, or to get information on joining MWOTRC,
    point your mouse at www. mwotrc. com

    Jack French
    (Retiring Editor)

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    Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 20:17:14 -0400
    From: Zane <intraverse@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Big Story

>      4/2

>      1947   The Big Story was first heard on NBC. It stayed on the air for
>      eight years.

      "The Big Story" was one of the greatest radio docudrama series. It also
    translated fabulously to TV, from September 16, 1949 until sometime in 1958.
    Richard Strauss' EIN HELDENLEBEN music was a masterfully selected theme for
    the heroic feel of the radio and Emmy-nominated television series. My high
    school debate teacher was the first wife of the late Ed Neumeier, who also
    taught at the school (San Bernardino High), and he was always rightly so
    proud of the NBC award:

      "Edward J. Neumeier, journalist, teacher and school administrator, died
    August 25, 2010, of lung disease complications. He was 86. As a young
    reporter in Eureka, Neumeier received several awards, including one from the
    California Newspapers Association when a double murderer confessed and
    surrendered to him. His scoop was the basis of a TV episode on "The Big
    Story." As a journalism teacher and administrator, he was associated with the
    Tamalpais Union High School District for more than 20 years. Active in the
    1960s in the Marin Council for Civic Affairs, he served on the Juvenile
    Justice Commission and did volunteer legal work for San Quentin inmates.
    After retirement, Neumeier and his wife, the former Gloria Wyeth Melbostad,
    lived and taught overseas for many years. They taught in Africa, China and
    Vietnam and, after the Soviet Union collapsed, in the newly independent
    countries of Estonia, Lithuania and Czechoslovakia, where they worked with
    the Soros Foundation Civic Education project. More recently, they taught at
    the American University in Kosovo. One of twelve children, Ed Neumeier was
    born and raised in Van Nuys, California. He served in the Army Air Forces in
    Italy during World War II, worked briefly for US Intelligence service in Asia
    and later graduated from Eastern Washington College, receving his law degree
    from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, CA. His survivors, besides his
    wife, include one brother and four sisters, his son, Edward Vann Neumeier
    also a writer, of Los Angeles, CA, two daughters, Lisa Barkalow of Carmel and
    Shelley Neumeier of Farley, NY, and six grandchildren. Memorial services to
    be held at a later date." Published in Marin Independent Journal on August
    28, 2010

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      With dedicated, factual and courageous journalism now under political
    siege, this exemplary story series should be revived for both radio and
    television. Such true and intrepid accounts are always relevant and inspiring
    to all of us.

     Zane

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