Subject: [removed] Digest V2003 #140
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 4/3/2003 9:17 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2003 : Issue 140
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Who Wears The Trousers / Jim and Mar  [ Tom Kleinschmidt <otr1962@[removed] ]
      Light Bulb                            [ Derek Tague <derek@[removed]; ]
      Elizabeth McLeod's Important Find     [ "John Eccles, Jr." <jeccles@earthli ]
      Great New MP3CD Player                [ ilamfan@[removed] ]
      Ralph Bellamy, James Stewart & Lou M  [ Howard Blue <khovard@[removed]; ]
      Re: important find                    [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      RE: Important New Find                [ [removed]@[removed] ]
      Elizabeth & April 1st                 [ Roger Lorette <roger@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:53:43 -0500
    From: Tom Kleinschmidt <otr1962@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Who Wears The Trousers / Jim and Marian
     Jordan

    I wanted to thank Phil Watson and others who mentioned
    the BBC4 radio series "Who Wears The Trousers", and
    their note that the episodes could be heard on the
    BBC4 web site. Fortunately I just got a cable modem a
    few days ago and can actually listen to the shows(I
    tried with Dial-up and just couldnít get it to work).
    I do want to ask if anyone knows why the shows on the
    web site are incomplete. The first two were 28 minutes
    each, but both cut off before the actual end of the
    show, although it sounded like the show was wrapping
    up anyway and  I probably didn't miss too much, I was
    just curious why they do this?
    Also I wanted to ask if anyone else had listened to
    the current show about Jim and Marian Jordan? There
    were several revelations and some suspicions confirmed
    by relatives of the couple, I believe a niece and a
    grandchild. They didn't mention alcoholism as a reason
    for Marian's long absence from the show(which has been
    rumored), but rather a total nervous and physical
    breakdown. They also mention her being one of the
    first people to receive shock therapy treatments in an
    asylum she was treated in and even a suicide attempt
    on an airplane that I've never heard discussed before.
    I know this topic was discussed on the Digest a year
    or so back and I was just wondering if these were
    among the "well known", but not discussed reasons for
    her absence at the time. We know that celebrities
    private lives were protected more back in those days,
    but still after all these years I would have thought
    that some of the information might have come out as it
    so often does.

    Tom

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    Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:54:01 -0500
    From: Derek Tague <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Light Bulb

    Q: How many OTR enthusiasts does it take to screw in a light bulb?
    A: As many as the "theatre of imagination"  will allow.

    As Jean Shepherd used to close his short-lived 1970s PBS TV-show:
    "Think clean thoughts!"

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:54:09 -0500
    From: "John Eccles, Jr." <jeccles@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Elizabeth McLeod's Important Find

    To say that Elizabeth's McLeod announcement in Issue #137 was important is a
    vast understatement.  It may be the most significant discovery of mateial
    previously thought lost in the last 30 years.  The 15 minute Amos 'n Andy
    shows alone make it a major find, but adding material with Paul Whiteman,
    Will Rogers, & The Detective Story Hour mark this as the find of the
    century.  My jaw dropped reading her announcement and I want to congratulate
    her for all she has done and continues to do for this great hobby.  I will
    mark my calendar for April 2004 and await the first release of some of this
    material.  Again, congratulations to Elizabeth.

    John Eccles

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    Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:56:23 -0500
    From: ilamfan@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed] (OTR Bulletin Board)
    Subject:  Great New MP3CD Player

    Don't know if my last message got sent, or just disappeared, so I'm trying
    again.  Sorry if you read this post a second time.

         I just got the BEST deal on a brand new mp3 cd portable.  It's called the
    Digitech CDM230, I got it at my local J C Penney Outlet store.  Regular price
    is $[removed], sale price is $[removed] only April 2-7.
         Never heard of the brand before, but I figured I'd give it a try: Hey,
    it's only 20 bucks!  I didn't expect much at all, but check THIS out!

    Plays cds and mp3 cds
    Plays low-bitrate (32/22 typical OTR)
    Plays hi-bitrate (up to 256 kbts)
    40-second buffer on cds
    120-second buffer on mp3s (long battery life!)
    Scrolls song title
    Reads ID3 tags
    Navigates folders, not just tracks
    +10 track button
    5 EQ settings
    Bass Boost
    Internal battery charge
    Even has pretty good headphones!

         Some "drawbacks":
    No backlight - need daylight/room light to see display
    No resume feature - when power is turned off, cd starts from beginning
    No folder titles, just numbers
    No AC adapter
    Poorly translated manual, but MUCH better than most.  Pretty easy to decipher,
    you won't need your ROA decoder badge.

         I've been a big RioVolt fan, it's the Cadillac of mp3 players for OTR
    fans.  I think that mine cost $160 when it came out 2 years ago.  But this
    DIGITECH CDM230 hits most of the same high points that the Volt did, and at
    only $20!  Even without the sale, $50 is a great price for this great unit!
         RUN, don't walk, to the store near you with these on sale!
         I have no association with this company at all, I just had to let
    everyone
    in on this superb player.  If anyone out there has been comtemplating getting
    an mp3 portable, but been put off by the big prices (still up around $150-200
    for the best ones!), give this one a try!
         I'm still doing testing, but it looks great so far!  Any questions,
    please
    feel free to email me.

    Stephen Jansen (ilamfan@[removed])

    --
    Old Time Radio never dies - it
    just changes formats!

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    Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:55:31 -0500
    From: Howard Blue <khovard@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Ralph Bellamy, James Stewart & Lou Merrill:
     Where are their papers?

>     >From time to time, I'm identifying the locations of the papers of

    various OTR writers and actors:

    Ralph Bellamy's papers are in the phenomenal special collections library
    at Boston University.

    The whereabouts of James Stewart's papers are a mystery to me. After
    Stewart's death, I was in brief contact with his attorney. But I was
    unable to find out the answers to my question.

    Lou Merrill's papers are in the SPERDVAC library in Los Angeles.

    FOR INFORMATION ABOUT HOW YOUR PUBLIC OR COLLEGE LIBRARY CAN OBTAIN A
    COPY AT A DISCOUNT, PLEASE CONTACT ME OFF-LINE

    WORDS AT WAR (Scarecrow Press, Dec. 2002)  is now in the libraries at the
    Naval Academy, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell,  Erie Community College,
    USC, Wake Forest University, Bethany (MN) Lutheran College & more than
    100 other libraries around the country. But most public and university
    libraries don't have it  yet.

    Howard Blue
    Khovard@[removed]
    [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:53:52 -0500
    From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: important find

    Wow Elizabeth, that news is sensational.  I gasped at much of what you
    described (the 1927 Rose Bowl, CBS' inaugural broadcast, the "Detective Story
    Hour" narrated by the Shadow) even *before* you mentioned "the most important
    find in this collection."   Then my jaw hit the floor.  Did I understand this
    correctly--*all* of the "Amos 'N' Andy" shows from 11/29 to 3/32?  Wow, this
    is a major dig in broadcast and cultural archaelogy. I look forward to all of
    these.

    And by the way you couldn't have picked a better group for the transfers, the
    First Generation Archives.   I recently joined just under the wire to get
    that "Little Orphan Annie" special and I must say, those 1936-37 broadcasts
    are outstanding.  I can't wait to hear this other material get the same
    treatment.

    Dixon

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    Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 00:06:14 -0500
    From: [removed]@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RE: Important New Find

    WOW, way to go Elizabeth!
    Congratulations!
    Jim
    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:14:22 -0500
    From: Roger Lorette <roger@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Elizabeth & April 1st

    [removed]!

    Being a person who loves a good joke, I sat with a growing smile as I read
    the your message "fessing up" to your April Fools message.  I, like most
    others was taken in hook, line and sinker.  I'm impressed that there were a
    couple who saw though the smoke.

    Anthony Tollin was probably right in thinking you had entirely too much time
    on your [removed] I thought you used it very well!

    It was a classic!

    Roger Lorette

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