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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 127
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      8-7 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Orson Welles show?                    [ "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@jun ]
      GREAT PLAIN RADIO HISTORY SYMPOSIUM   [ Steven Smethers <smethers@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:14:50 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-7 births/deaths

    August 7th births

    08-07-1883 - Reinald Werrenrath - NYC - d. 9-12-1953
    baritone: "Old Company Program"
    08-07-1884 - Billie Burke - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-14-1970
    comedian: "Billie Burke Show"; Mrs. Featherstone "Gay Mrs. Featherstone"
    08-07-1902 - Charles Cornell - Budapest, Hungary - d. 12-3-1993
    composer: "Boston Blackie"; "Date with Judy"
    08-07-1903 - Hilda Hopkins Burke - d. 4-6-1978
    soprano: WBAL Baltimore, Maryland
    08-07-1904 - Dr. Ralph Bunche - Detroit, MI - d. 12-7-1971
    activist: "The Big Show"
    08-07-1904 - Herbert Colin Rice - Guilford, England - d. 5-27-1991
    creator, writer, producer: "Bobby Benson"
    08-07-1906 - Ernestine Wade - Mississippi - d. 4-14-1983
    actor: Sapphire Stevens "Amos 'n' Andy"
    08-07-1907 - Alexander Turner - London, England - d. xx-xx-1993
    writer: "Coat of Arms"
    08-07-1908 - Dave Bacal - NYC - d. 9-12-1986
    staff organist for CBS
    08-07-1908 - Kathleen Fitz - d. 4-22-1998
    actor: Judy Price "Dr. Christian"; Portia Brent "Brenthouse"
    08-07-1909 - Sheldon Stark - NYC - d. 2-6-1997
    writer: "The Columbia Workshop"; "Straight Arrow"
    08-07-1910 - Freddie Slack - Westby, WI - d. 8-10-1965
    pianist, bandleader: "Kraft Music Hall"
    08-07-1911 - Nicholas Ray - Galesville, WI - d. 6-16-1979
    director: Free lance
    08-07-1913 - George Van Eps - Plainfield, NJ - d. 11-29-1998
    guitarist: "Pete Kelly's Blues"; "Guest Star"; "Just Jazz"
    08-07-1914 - Clifford Thorsness - d. 6-14-2002
    sound effects: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Edgar Bergen/Charlie
    McCarthy Show"
    08-07-1914 - June Travis - Chicago, IL - d. 4-14-2008
    actor: Stormy Curtis/Wilson "Girl Alone"; Bernice Farraday "Arnold
    Grimm's Daughter"
    08-07-1920 - Mel Diamond - NYC - d. 4-5-2002
    comedy writer: Kate Smith, Milton Berle, Bob Hope and Mickey Rooney
    08-07-1921 - Poni (Jane) Adams - San Antonio, TX
    contestant escort: "Darts  for Dough"
    08-07-1921 - Warren Covington - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-24-1999
    orchestra leader: "Warren Covington and His Orchestra"
    08-07-1926 - Stan Freberg - Los Angeles, CA
    comedian: "That's Rich"; "Stan Freberg Show"
    08-07-1927 - Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer - Paris, IL - d. 1-21-1959
    actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
    08-07-1942 - Garrison Keillor - Anoka, MN
    vocalist, storyteller: "A Prarie Home Companion"

    August 7th deaths

    01-05-1902 - Eve Sully - NYC - d. 8-7-1990
    comedian: appeared with husband Jesse Block on radio
    01-18-1892 - Oliver Hardy - Harlem, GA - d. 8-7-1957
    comedian: "Ruth Lyons Show"
    01-28-1900 - Mahlon Merrick - Farmington, IA - d. 8-7-1969
    music: "Jack Benny Program"; "Skippy Hollywood Theatre"
    01-28-1914 - Tom Neal - Evanston, IL - d. 8-7-1972
    actor: "I Am An American"; "The Unexpected"
    02-09-1901 - Walter Preston - Quincy, IL - d. 8-7-1982
    singer: "Philco Hour"
    03-07-1905 - Ruth Freed Akst - Vancouver, Canada - d. 8-7-1989
    composer/violinist lead singing and instrumental trio on radio
    03-07-1937 - Anne Kristen - Scotland - d. 8-7-1996
    actor: "Carver"
    03-10-1903 - Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke - Davenport, IA - d.
    8-7-1931
    jazz musician: "Band Remotes"
    03-16-1885 - Rev. Dr. William L. Stidger - Moundsville, WV - d. 8-7-1949
    pastor: "Getting the Most Out of Life"
    04-13-1889 - Herbert Yardley - Washington, IN - d. 8-7-1958
    writer: "Stories of the Black Chambers"
    05-18-1894 - Raymond Paige - Wausau, WI - d. 8-7-1965
    conductor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Musical Americana"; "Stage Door Canteen"
    05-30-1912 - Jerry D. Lewis - d. 8-7-1996
    writer: "This Is Your FBI"
    06-09-1912 - Ingolf Dahl - Hamburg, Germany - d. 8-7-1970
    conductor, pianist
    06-11-1920 - Robert Hutton - Kingston, NY - d. 8-7-1994
    actor: "Proudly We Hail"; "NBC University Theatre"
    07-15-1900 - Helen Shields - Champaign, IL - d. 8-7-1963
    actor: Linda Dale "I Love Linda Dale"; Sylvia Meadows "Amanda of
    Honeymoon Hill"
    07-25-1917 - Arthur Alsberg - NYC - d. 8-7-2004
    wrote comedy routines for Milton Berle and Danny Kaye
    07-27-1920 - Henry "Homer" Haynes - d. 8-7-1971
    comedian: (Homer and Jethro) "WLS National Barn Dance"
    07-29-1938 - Peter Jennings - Toronto, Canada - d. 8-7-2005
    news broadcaster: "When Conventions Were Conventions"
    08-16-1888 - Howard Marsh - Bluffton, IN - d. 8-7-1969
    singer: "Buick Presents"; "Evening in Paris"; "Frigidaire Program"
    08-25-1931 - Hal Fishman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-7-2007
    television news anchor: Got start on campus radio at Cornell
    09-14-1918 - Bill Hanrahan - d. 8-7-1996
    newscaster, announcer: "Inheritance"
    10-05-1913 - Lois January - Fort Worth, TX - d. 8-7-2006
    actor: "County Fair"
    10-20-1922 - John Anderson - Clayton, IL - d. 8-7-1992
    actor: William Clark "Horizons West"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:14:59 -0400
    From: "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Orson Welles show?

    Someone asked this question on the Cincinnati OTR board:

    "I am trying to track down a tribute to radio and free speech that aired just
    before or during World War II.  The narrator was Orson Welles, and a frequent
    refrain was, "Do you hear me,
    America?"  It describes the microphone as the soapbox where "anyone with a
    worthwhile message" can speak his/her piece.  There is a brief speech by
    Quincy Howe, who was then president of the ACLU.

    I had a cassette of this at one time, as the B side to a MERCURY THEATER
    episode (and I probably bought it at a convention in years past), but it
    seems to be gone.  Anybody know the title of it, or have a recording of it?"

    Thanks for any help!

    ---Dan Hughes

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    Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 17:02:59 -0400
    From: Steven Smethers <smethers@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  GREAT PLAIN RADIO HISTORY SYMPOSIUM

             Relive the days when sports announcers "re-created" baseball games!
    This year's Great Plains Radio History Symposium will focus on the days when
    stations aired dramatizations of ballgames. Legendary sports broadcaster Tom
    Hedrick is one of few living sports announcers who produced baseball
    re-creations, and his featured session will focus on this lost production art
    form.

             The symposium will be held on Friday, October 12, at the Campus
    Holiday Inn at Kansas State University.

             Another featured speaker will be Bill Miller, whose career as an
    announcer and programmer spans six decades, and who hosts a syndicated music
    program on over 80 affiliated stations.

    	 The annual Richard Ward Fatherley Luncheon will honor affiliates of
    The Bill Miller Show and honor Hutchinson broadcaster Cliff Shank with the
    Huck Boyd Community Service in Journalism Award, an annual honor bestowed by
    the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media.

    	 Tickets for the symposium presentations are $15 and may be purchased
    online at [removed] or at the door.  Reservations for the Fatherley
    Luncheon must be made by October 5 online or by sending a check to the A. Q.
    Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications, 105 Kedzie Hall, Kansas
    State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66502.

    	 The symposium is sponsored by the A. Q. Miller School of Journalism
    and Mass Communications, the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media
    and the K-State Center for Engagement and Community Development.

    J. Steven Smethers, [removed]
    Associate Director for Undergraduate Studies

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