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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 192
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      12-15 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 16-22 Dec  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      12-16 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      12-17 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Two Questions                         [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:56:52 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-15 births/deaths

    December 15th births

    12-15-1873 - Harry Humphrey - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-1-1947
    actor: Old Ranger "Death Valley Days"; Horace "Ma and Pa"
    12-15-1883 - Marion S. Barney - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-xx-1968
    actor: "Red Davis"; "Gangbusters"; "We, The People"
    12-15-1888 - Maxwell Anderson - Atlantic, PA - d. 2-28-1959
    writer: "Free Company"; "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "O'Neill Cycle"
    12-15-1891 - A. P. Carter - Poor Valley, VA - d. 11-7-1960
    singer: (Carter Family) "Grand Ole Opry"
    12-15-1896 - Betty Smith - NYC - d. 1-17-1972
    author: "Studio One"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    12-15-1901 - Gail Bonney - Columbus, OH - d. 12-7-1984
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Joan Davis Time"; "NBC University Theatre"
    12-15-1904 - George Lessner - d. 5-12-1997
    composer: "The Nightingale and the  Rose"
    12-15-1907 - Bob Hawk - Creston, IA - d. 7-4-1989
    quizmaster: "Take It or Leave It"; "Thanks to the Yanks"; "Bob Hawk
    Show"
    12-15-1914 - Bob Tallman - Colorado - d. 9-10-1995
    writer: "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen", "Cavalcade of America"
    12-15-1915 - Margaret Hayes - Baltimore, MD - d. 1-26-1977
    actor: "Silver Theatre"
    12-15-1916 - Buddy Cole - Irving, IL - d. 11-5-1964
    musician: (Buddy Cole Trio) "Ginny Simms Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"
    12-15-1916 - Richard Powell - Cincinnati, OH - d. 10-20-1996
    script writer: "Topper"; "Dick Powell Show"
    12-15-1917 - Raymond Morgan - Utah - d. 1-18-1975
    announcer: "Chandu, the Magician"; "Murder at Midnight"
    12-15-1918 - Jeff Chandler - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-17-1961
    actor: Michael Shayne, "Michael Shayne, Detective"; Philip Boynton,
    "Our Miss Brooks"
    12-15-1921 - Bea Lilly - Clear Creek, VA - d. 9-18-2005
    guitar: "Old Farm Hour Show", "Molly O'Day"
    12-15-1924 - Dorothy Gregory - d. 2-28-1942
    actor: Jill Jones "Kitty Keene, Incorporated"; "Scattergood Baines"
    12-15-1925 - Alfred Bradley - London, England - d. 4-1-1991
    read and selected scripts for the BBC

    December 15th deaths

    01-04-1918 - Palmer Thompson - Patterson, NY - d. 12-15-1969
    writer: "David Harding, Counterspy"
    01-14-1899 - Carlos P. Romulo - Camiling, Tarlac, Philippines - d.
    12-15-1985
    diplomat: "Information Please"
    01-15-1913 - Stephen Courtleigh - NYC - d. 12-15-1967
    actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"
    01-18-1915 - Bob Mosher - d. 12-15-1972
    writer: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Henry Morgan Show"; "Harry Von Zell Show"
    01-24-1918 - Oral Roberts - near Ada, OK - d. 12-15-2009
    evengelist: "Healing Waters"
    01-28-1910 - Arnold Moss - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-15-1989
    actor: Philip Cameron "Against the Storm"; Reed Bannister "Big Sister"
    02-15-1919 - Frank Behrens - Sheboygan, WI - d. 12-15-1986
    actor: Billie "Billie the Brownie"; Jack Armstrong "Jack Armstrong"
    03-01-1904 - Glenn Miller - Clarinda, IA - d. 12-15-1944
    bandleader: "Moonlight Serenade"; "USO Matinee"
    03-26-1912 - Al Sloey - d. 12-15-1975
    singer: (Riders of the Purple Sage) "Roy Rogers Show"; "Hollywood Barn
    Dance"
    05-02-1918 - Frank Milano - d. 12-15-1962
    animal sounds: "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders"
    05-03-1907 - Edgar Lustgarten - Manchester, England - d. 12-15-1978
    author: "The Burden Mystery"
    05-21-1904 - Thomas "Fats" Waller - NYC - d. 12-15-1943
    pianist, singer: "Columbia Variety Hour"; "Saturday Night Swing Club"
    06-03-1904 - Jan Peerce - NYC - d. 12-15-1984
    singer: "Music Hall of the Air"; "A & P Gypsies"; "Golden Treasury of
    Song"
    07-01-1899 - Charles Laughton - Scarborough, England - d. 12-15-1962
    actor: "Three Ring Time"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
    07-18-1903 - Chill Wills - Seagoville, TX - d. 12-15-1978
    actor: "Armed Forces Radio Theatre"; "Dinner Bell Round-Up Time"
    07-26-1922 - Blake Edwards - Tulsa, OK - d. 12-15-2010
    writer: "Lineup"; "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"
    08-03-1902 - Irma Glen - Chicago, IL - d. 12-15-1982
    organist: "Irma Glen Lovable Music"; "Vic and Sade"
    09-11-1895 - Harry Tobias - NYC - d. 12-15-1994
    songwriter: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    09-20-1917 - Joe King - Birmingham, AL - d. 12-15-2009
    announcer: "Songs By Morton Downey"; "Walk A Mile"
    09-25-1911 - Lew Davies - Ashland, KY - d. 12-15-1968
    composer: "The Cancer Quack"
    10-09-1913 - John Guedel - Portland, IN - d. 12-15-2001
    producer: "You Bet Your Life"; "People Are Funny"; "Pillsbury House
    Party"
    10-13-1885 - Harry Hershfield - Cedar Rapids, IA - d. 12-15-1974
    comedian: "Stop Me If You Heard This One"; "Can You Top This?"
    11-03-1918 - Bob Feller - Van Meter, IA - d. 12-15-2010
    baseball great: "The Jack Benny Program"
    11-11-1915 - William Proxmire - Lake Forest, IL - d. 12-15-2005
    [removed] senator: "Meet the Press"
    12-02-1910 - Sidney Marshall - d. 12-15-1977
    writer: "Man Called X"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    12-05-1901 - Walt Disney - Chicago, IL - d. 12-15-1966
    actor: Mickey Mouse "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
    12-18-1895 - Harry Kogen - Chicago, IL - d. 12-15-1985
    violinist: "The Bobby Doyle Show"; "The Breakfast Club"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:57:20 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 16-22 December

     From Those Were The Days

    12/16

    1949   After a decade on radio, Captain Midnight was heard for the final
    time. Put your secret Code-O-Graph badges away now, kids.

    12/17

    1936   Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen kidded around with his pal, Charlie
    McCarthy (who was a bit wooden, we [removed]), for the first time on
    radio. The two debuted on The Rudy Vallee Show on NBC. Soon, Bergen
    became one of radio's hottest properties, and was called Vallee's
    greatest talent discovery.

    12/19

    1932    the British Broadcasting Corporation began transmitting overseas
    with its Empire Service to Australia.

    12/22

    1920   WEAF, in New York City, aired the first broadcast of a prize
    fight from ringside. The fight was broadcast from Madison Square Garden
    where Joe Lynch defeated Peter Herman to retain the bantamweight title.
    Bantamweights top the scales at 118 pounds. Just think, either of those
    boxers could have been mistaken for the microphone stand.

    1922   WEAF once again proved to be the pillar of radio promotion. This
    time they broadcast radio's first double wedding ceremony. Four thousand
    spectators watched as the two couples exchanged vows at Grand Central
    Palace. The broadcast was made in conjunction with the American Radio
    Exposition. The couples each got $100; a hefty sum in 1922 ($1326 in
    2011 dollars).

       Joe

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    Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:57:28 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-16 births/deaths

    December 16th births

    12-16-1889 - Kurt Kupfer - d. 3-20-1974
    actor: the kindly Joseph Steinbloch "Romance of Helen Trent"
    12-16-1890 - Jane Morgan - North Platte, NE - d. 1-1-1972
    actor: Mary Lane "Aunt Mary"; Mrs. Margaret Davis "Our Miss Brooks"
    12-16-1892 - Cameron Prud'homme - Auburn, CA - d. 11-27-1967
    actor: Governor Bradley "Little Herman"; David Harum "David Harum"
    12-16-1895 - Andy Razaf - Washington, D. C. - d. 2-3-1973
    lyricist: "Music for Millions"
    12-16-1898 - Lud Gluskin - NYC - d. 10-13-1989
    conductor: "Hollywood Showcase"; "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Advs. of Sam Spade"
    12-16-1899 - Noel Coward - Teddington, Middlesex, England - d. 3-26-1973
    actor, playwright: "Stagestruck"
    12-16-1900 - Jesse Block - NYC - d. 3-22-1983
    comedian: appeared with wife Eve Sully on radio
    12-16-1907 - Albert Gore, Sr. - Granville, TN - d. 12-5-1998
    [removed] senator tennessee: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    12-16-1907 - Barbara Kent - Gadsby, Alberta, Canada - d. 10-13-2011
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-16-1911 - Howard Reilly - d. 11-28-1991
    producer: "The Fred Allen Show"
    12-16-1912 - "Kokomo" Crocker - Tennessee - d. 11-xx-1972
    accordian: "The Swift Jewel Cowboys"
    12-16-1913 - Verlye Mills - St. John, KS - d. 10-2-1983
    harpist: "The Hour of Charm"; "Your Hit Parade"
    12-16-1917 - Arthur C. Clarke - Minehead, England - d. 3-19-2008
    science fiction writer: "The Long John Nebel Show"
    12-16-1918 - Murray Kempton - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-5-1997
    commentator: "Spectrum"
    12-16-1918 - Paul Talbot - d. 7-6-2005
    actor: "It Happened to Me"; "Let's Playwright"
    12-16-1921 - Grace Keagy - Youngstown, OH - d. 10-4-2009
    actor: "A Private Space"
    12-16-1929 - Nicholas Courtney - Cairo, Egypt - d. 2-22-2011
    actor: "Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula"
    12-16-1946 - Robert Urich - Toronto, OH - d. 4-16-2002
    salesman: WGN Chicago, Illinois

    December 16th deaths

    01-02-1888 - Tito Schipa - Lecce, Italy - d. 12-16-1965
    operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"; "La Rosa Concerts"
    01-25-1874 - Somerset Maughan - Paris, France - d. 12-16-1965
    writer: " Somerset Maughan Theatre"
    02-02-1923 - Haleloke Kahuaolapus - Hilo, Hawaii Territory - d.
    12-16-2004
    singer: "Hawaii Calls"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
    02-08-1917 - Robert Dryden - d. 12-16-2003
    actor: Doctor West "We Love and Learn"; Sergeant Maggio "Call the
    Police"
    03-03-1919 - Enzo Stuarti - Rome, Italy - d. 12-16-2005
    operatic singer: "Stars for Defense"
    03-07-1906 - Edward Mabley - Binghampton, NY - d. 12-16-1984
    writer: "The American School of the Air"
    03-10-1882 - Lewis J. Valentine - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-16-1946
    nyc police commissioner: "Gangbusters"
    04-21-1891 - Will Donaldson - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-16-1954
    composer, arranger, musician: "The Wonder Bakers Orchestra"
    05-08-1908 - Cecil Broadhurst - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 12-16-1981
    actor, singer, writer: "The Vanishing Island"
    05-12-1910 - Jack Jenney - Mason City, IA - d. 12-16-1945
    trombonist: "The Saturday Night Swing Club"
    07-14-1928 - George "Cousin Josh" Rose - Huntsville, AL - d. 12-16-2006
    country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    07-23-1895 - Aileen Pringle - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-16-1989
    actor: Anne Hill "Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne"
    07-29-1895 - Bill Corum - Speed, MO - d. 12-16-1958
    boxing color man: "Gillettes's Cavalcade of Sports"
    07-29-1906 - Thelma Todd - Lawrence, MA - d. 12-16-1935
    comedian: Series with Zasu Pitts
    08-02-1886 - Cesare Sodero - Naples, Italy - d. 12-16-1947
    conductor: Series of condensed operas on WEAF New York
    09-19-1879 - Louis Joseph Vance - NYC - d. 12-16-1933
    writer: "The Lone Wolf"
    10-19-1925 - Eddie Layton - d. 12-16-2004
    organist: New York Yankees and many radio programs
    11-05-1948 - Ruth Welting - Memphis, TN - d. 12-16-1999
    coloratura soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
    11-20-1910 - Ralph Muzzillo - d. 12-16-1985
    trombone: (Benny Goodman's Orchestra) "Let's Dance"
    11-23-1930 - Bob Easton - Milwaukee, WI - d. 12-16-2011
    actor: Magnus Proudfoot "Gunsmoke"; Quiz Kids"; "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    12-17-1892 - T. Frederick Candlyn - England - d. 12-16-1964
    pianist: WGY Schenectady, New York

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:57:36 -0500
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
    may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
    Radio Theatre," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
    Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Charlie St George's "Make Believe
    Ballroom Time" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."  Streamed in
    high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    MAIL CALL
    Episode 179 1-23-46
    MC: Jackie Coogan
    Announcer: Ben Alexander
    Features: Hoagy Carmichael, Honey Drippers, Maxie Rosenblum, Martha
    Tilton, The Smart Set

    THE ADVENTURES OF ANNIE OAKLEY AND TAGG
    Audition Show 10-09-51 "Poisoning At Whistling Spring"
    Director: William M. Birch
    Announcer: Charles Lyon
    ABC Sustained

    SUSPENSE
    Episode 340 5-12-49 "The Light Switch"
    Stars: Claire Trevor
    CBS Autolight

    MUSIC DEPRECIATION
    Episode 24 4-22-45 Guests: The Smart Set, Robert Armstrong
    Stars: Frank De Vol Orchestra, Les Paul Trio
    Announcer: Tony La Frano
    Commentary: Rubin Gaines
    MUTUAL DON LEE/KHJ Sustaining
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    *Christmas Special*

    CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
    "The Happy Prince"    (1945)
    stars: Bing Crosby and Orson Welles.

    A NEW YEAR'S WISH
    from Franklyn MacCormick (1948)

    CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
    "Lullaby Of Christmas" (1949)
    stars: Gregory Peck.

    "A CHRISTMAS CAROL"
    (1947) stars: Lionel Barrymore
    an alternative version to the 1939 version.

    THE LONE RANGER
    12/24/48 ABC "Christmas For Sandy"
    Stars: Brace Beemer and Johgn Todd with Fred Foy.
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    *Christmas Special*

    BURNS AND ALLEN
    from 12/23/40 Christmas Show. Artie Shaw is the orchestra leader. This
    is a show which featured George and Gracie. They supposedly were not
    married on the program. It is a bit different than the later shows which
    usually took place at the Burns home.

    BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD
    from 12/25/39 Episode (26) Scrooge.

    IT'S TIME TO SMILE
    Eddie Cantor from 12/17/41 with Boris Karloff.

    NICK CARTER
    from 12/25/43 Episode (037) Nick Carter's Christmas Adventure.
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    CLASSICS & CURIOS

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 58

    CLASSICS & CURIOS: DREAMS & MOMENTS TO REMEMBER

    Christmas and the New Year bring to mind very special memories and
    special dreams. Songs, of course, usually play a part to make them
    special, and on this edition of Classics & Curios we'll listen to some
    wonderful songs that take us back to wonderful moments that remain
    precious in our memory. Those songs added unique joy and feeling to our
    lives long ago and can do so again just listening to them now.

    The Four Lads start us on our dream and memory journey with their great
    "Moments to Remember," and joining the journey are performers like Perry
    Como, Andy Griffith, the Four Freshmen, the Pied Pipers, Doris Day and
    Les Brown, and ("pretty") Kitty Kallen.

    Along the way, Woody Herman shares the touching "A Soldier's Dream" (on
    the battlefield), Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters sing "I Can Dream,
    Can't I?" from Bing's radio show, and Bob Hope and Shirley Ross do
    "Thanks for the Memory" from their film "The Big Broadcast of 1938."
    Other songs include "Graduation Day," "My Dreams Are Getting Better All
    the Time," "A Dreamer's Holiday," "Dream," "Happy Talk," "When You Wish
    Upon a Star," and "Precious Memories."

    The Stattler Brothers give us a fun memory quiz as they ask "Do You
    Remember These?" They want to know if you recall things like Captain
    Midnight, Howdy Doody, Dixie Cup tops, sock hops, lemonade stands, white
    bucks, peddle pushers, fender skirts, Cracker Jack prizes, "He's a real
    gone cat," and "Only the Shadow knows." If you do remember those, you're
    about my age -- or a "keenager," as Frankie Laine called us."

    Finally, we end our journey with clips from the Guy Lombardo Show. Guy
    introduces his brothers and a classic Lombardo medley which here
    includes the songs "Shine on Harvest Moon," "Button Up Your Overcoat,"
    "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby," "My Gal Sal," and
    "Everywhere You Go. New Years Eve isn't quite here, but the band
    performs the Lombardo signature song "Auld Lang Syne."

    Kitty Kallen closes the show to fadeout with a reprise of "Happy Talk"
    from the broadway musical "South Pacific." Truly 'tis a season of happy
    talk with a time for remembering and for making new memories and
    dreaming new dreams. German poet Goethe wrote, "Dream no small dreams,
    for they have no power to move the hearts of men." Let us dream of a
    world with hearts transformed by the Christ of Christmas.
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    Make Believe Ballroom Time

    Episode 5

    In December 1946 Tommy Dorsey was one of eight big band leaders who shut
    down their bands for good. They believed the big band era had come to a
    close. Two tears later, Tommy Dorsey began a come-back aimed at "the
    kids of America who deserved a chance to dance to the big bands again".
    This program starts with the Dorsey band of 1946 with Tommy broadcasting
    from Los Angeles with his special [removed] Ellington. The program
    goes on to 1953 with the Dorsey band "alive and well" in New York City
    broadcasting from The Stattler Hotel on NBC. You'll find all this with
    facts about Tommy and stats about the year [removed] you know the
    microwave oven was introduced at that time? Check us out on " It's Make
    Believe Ballroom Time"
    ====================================

    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

          Jerry Haendiges

          Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
          The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
          Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
    the Net

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    Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:46:49 -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
    12-17-1909 - Odile Pope - Mobile, AL - d. 5-1-2009
    singer: (Pope Sisters) NBC Radio
    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"
    12-17-1919 - Virginia Dwyer - Omaha, NB - d. 8-20-2012
    actor: "Adventures of Ellery Queen";" Cavalcade of America"; "Crime
    Club"
    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 - 9-27-2009
    producer: "Tex McCrary Show"
    12-17-1930 - Bill Beutel - Cleveland, OH - d. 3-18-2006
    news reporter: "New York 1960"
    12-17-1943 - Christopher Cazenove - Winchester, England - d. 4-7-2010
    actor: "My Fate Cries Out"

    December 17th deaths

    01-01-1909 - Dana Andrews - Collins, MS - d. 12-17-1992
    actor: Matt Cevetic "I Was A Communist for the FBI"
    01-16-1922 - Lina Romay - NYC - d. 12-17-2010
    latin singer: "The Bing Crosby Show"; "The Dick Haymes Show"
    03-01-1914 - Gil Doud - Minnesota - d. 12-17-1957
    writer, director: "Sam Spade"; "Escape"; "One out of Seven"; "Pat
    Novak for Hire"
    03-02-1919 - Jennifer Jones - Tulsa, OK - d. 12-17-2009
    actor: "Radio Hall of Fame"
    03-17-1914 - Sammy Baugh - Temple, TX - d. 12-17-2008
    football great: "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"
    04-01-1909 - Fiddlin' Hank Warren - Mount Airy, NC - d. 12-17-1997
    country, bluegrass: "Briarhoppers"
    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"
    12-03-1905 - Rosaline Greene - Hempstead, NY - d. 12-17-1987
    host, singer: "The Hour of Charm"; "Show Boat
    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: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:46:56 -0500
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Two Questions

    Folks;

       Have two questions for you, one public and one more private:

       1) Which Holiday programs are your favorites, the ones you have to listen
    to each year around this time? I don't want to get into a discussion of the
    "best," since one person's best will be another person's worst, but what
    shows are your personal favorites? Please respond directly to the Digest with
    these answers, since others might not have heard those shows you really enjoy.

       2) SummersTime returns to the Radio Once More airwaves on New Year's Eve,
    and while Kate and I are putting together our upcoming shows, we wondered
    what you'd like to hear us run on the program? Any shows you don't normally
    hear that you'd like us to feature? Maybe a favorite you want to share with
    other listeners? Those should probably be sent to me privately, or to both
    Kate and me at summerstime@[removed] - while posting to the Digest would
    be ok, these are probably more personal emails.

             Charlie

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