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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 198
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      12-26 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Cathy and Elliott Lewis               [ "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@sbcgl ]
      'Lost' Alistair Cooke tapes           [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      12-27 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:54:30 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-26 births/deaths

    December 26th births

    12-26-1874 - Leon Rothier - Rheims, France - d. 12-6-1951
    opera singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
    12-26-1891 - Tony Wons - Menasha, WI - d. 7-1-1965
    host: "Tony Wons Scrapbook"; "House by the Side of the Road"; "Camel
    Quarter Hour"
    12-26-1893 - Vladimir Golschmann - Paris, France - d. 3-1-1972
    conductor: New York Philharmonic
    12-26-1900 - Charles Perry - NYC - d. 2-26-1967
    producer, sports announcer: WHN New York
    12-26-1902 - Irene Handl - London, England - d. 11-29-1987
    actor: "Hello Playmates"
    12-26-1905 - Robert Magidoff - d. 2-xx-1970
    NBC newscaster
    12-26-1906 - Ashley Buck - d. 2-6-1980
    writer: "We Are Always Young"
    12-26-1906 - Catherine Turney - Chicago, IL - d. 9-9-1998
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-26-1911 - Hal Bourne - Chicago, IL - d. 2-25-2000
    musical director: "A Date with Judy"
    12-26-1912 - Oscar Saul - NYC - d. 5-23-1994
    writer: "Health for America"
    12-26-1914 - Richard Widmark - Sunrise, MN - d. 3-24-2008
    actor: Neil Davison "Home of the Brave"; Alan Webster "Joyce Jordan,
    [removed]"
    12-26-1914 - Robert Metzler - d. 2-23-1998
    scriptwriter: "Count of Monte Cristo"; "Phillip Marlowe"
    12-26-1921 - Steve Allen - NYC - d. 10-30-2000
    comedian, actor, singer, composer and anything else you might mention:
    "Steve Allen Show"
    12-26-1922 - Harry Choates - Rayne Acadia Parish, LA - d. 7-17-1951
    performer: "Jesse James and His Gang"
    12-26-1924- Jimmy Blaine - Greenville, TX - d. 3-18-1967
    announcer: "Lanny Ross Show"; "Ladies Be Seated"

    December 26th deaths

    01-13-1913 - Jeff Morrow - NYC - d. 12-26-1993
    actor: "Electric Theatre"
    02-14-1894 - Jack Benny - Chicago, IL - d. 12-26-1974
    comedian: "Jack Benny Program"
    04-05-1929 - Nigel Hawthorne - Coventry, England - d. 12-26-2001
    actor: Acted for his college radio station at the University of Cape
    Town
    04-08-1923 - Jimmie Osborne - Winchester, KY - d. 12-26-1958
    singer: "WLS Barn Dance"; "WLW Midwestern Hayride"
    04-09-1905 - Brewster Morgan - d. 12-26-1960
    director: "Columbia Workshop"; "Men Against Death"; "Report to the
    Nation"
    04-21-1921 - Betty Jane Rhodes - Rockford, IL - d. 12-26-2011
    vocalist: "Meet Me at Parky's"; "The Packard Hour"
    05-08-1884 - Harry S Truman - Lamar, MO - d. 12-26-1972
    [removed] president: "Milestones on the Road to Peace"; "World Food Crisis"
    05-17-1895 - Gayelord Hauser - Tubingen, Germany - d. 12-26-1984
    nutritionist: "Look Younger and Live Longer"
    06-03-1942 - Curtis Mayfield - Rosewell, GA - d. 12-26-1999
    soul singer, songwriter: "Voices of Vista"
    07-14-1913 - Gerald R. Ford - Omaha, NE - d. 12-26-2006
    accidental [removed] president: "Meet the Press"
    07-22-1922 - Jason Robards, Jr. - Chicago, IL - d. 12-26-2000
    actor: "Pepper Young's Family"
    07-31-1924 - Garard Green - Madras, India - d. 12-26-2004
    actor: "Sherlock Holmes"
    08-12-1911 - Dr. Olan Downes - West Roxbury, MA - d. 12-26-2001
    musicologist: "Texaco Metropolitan Opera"; "New York Philharmonic"
    08-22-1851 - Daniel Frohman - Sandusky, OH - d. 12-26-1940
    broadway producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-28-1902 - Elsa Lanchester - Lewisham, England - d. 12-26-1986
    actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Everyman's
    Theatre"
    12-10-1910 - Abraham Polonsky - NYC - d. 12-26-1999
    writer: "Mecury Theatre on the Air"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:54:55 -0500
    From: "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Cathy and Elliott Lewis
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    Hi Everybody,

    Does any one know where I can find copies of Cathy and Elliott  Lewis
    recordings with Ray Noble  in 1951 called Happy Holidays and Happy
    Anniversary plus Manhaten Towers?  Take care,

    Walden Hughes

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    Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:55:12 -0500
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  'Lost' Alistair Cooke tapes
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    Cheers ! Graeme ( ORCA / UK )

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    Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:55:19 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-27 births/deaths

    December 27th births

    12-27-1879 - Sidney Greenstreet - Sandwich, England - d. 1-18-1954
    actor: Nero Wolfe "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; "Hollywood Star Preview"
    12-27-1891 - Martha Backes Bardill - d. 3-xx-1976
    soprano: KYW Chicago, Illinois
    12-27-1893 - Ann Pennington - Camden, NJ - d. 11-4-1971
    actor: "Good News of 1938"
    12-27-1896 - Arch Ward - Irwin, IL - d. 7-9-1955
    sports journalist: Weekly program of sports news with Harry Wismer
    12-27-1896 - Louis Bromfield - Mansfield, OH - d. 3-18-1956
    author: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    12-27-1898 - Hilda Vaughn - Baltimore, MD - d. 12-28-1957
    actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
    12-27-1900 - Pauline Alpert - d. 4-11-1988
    "Whirlwind Pianist": "Log Cabin Inn"; "Rhythm and Rhyme"
    12-27-1901 - Marlene Dietrich - Berlin, Germany - d. 5-6-1992
    actor: Mlle. Madou, "Cafe Istanbul"
    12-27-1906 - Oscar Levant - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-14-1972
    panelist, pianist: "Information, Please"; "Kraft Music Hall"
    12-27-1910 - Bob Arnold - Asthall, England - d. 8-27-1998
    actor: "In the Cotswolds"; "The Archers"
    12-27-1910 - Harry Saz - d. 6-9-1994
    director: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    12-27-1911 - Anna Russell - London, England - d. 10-18-2006
    opera singer: "The Nutcraker Suite"
    12-27-1914 - Jack Latham - Washington - d. 1-1-1987
    announcer: "The Man Called X"; "Wake Up, America"
    12-27-1916 - Cathy Lewis - Spokane, WA - d. 11-20-1968
    actor: Jane Stacy "My Friend Irma"; Kathryn Milford "Great Gildersleeve"
    12-27-1916 - Johnny Frigo - Chicago, IL - d. 7-4-2007
    violin, bass: "National Barn Dance"
    12-27-1916 - Noel Johnson - Birmingham, England - d. 10-1-1999
    actor: Dick Barton "Dick Barton, Special Agent"; Dan Dare "Dan Dare:
    Pilot of the Future"
    12-27-1924 - Virginia Eiler - d. 1-5-2004
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Let George Do It"; "Yours Truly, Johnny
    Dollar"
    12-27-1941 - Joe Lake - Drasenhofen, Austria
    writer: "Gustav Weindorfer of Tasmania's Cradle Mountain"

    December 27th deaths

    02-19-1902 - Kay Boyle - St. Paul, MN - d. 12-27-1992
    writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
    02-26-1891 - Alan Bridge - Pennsylvania - d. 12-27-1957
    actor: "The Eddie Bracken Show"
    05-11-1921 - Dorothy Warenskjold - San Leandro, CA - d. 12-27-2010
    lyric soprano: "The Railroad Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"; "Candy
    Matson, Yukon2-8209"
    05-16-1915 - Chuck Cabot - d. 12-27-2007
    bandleader: "The Fitch Bandwagon"
    07-04-1888 - Otto Rauhut - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-27-1986
    director: "Otto Rauhut Violin Ensemble" KPO San Francisco, California
    07-22-1908 - Amy Vanderbilt - Staten Island, NY - d. 12-27-1974
    etiquette expert: "Jack Benny Program"
    08-04-1908 - Wally Maher - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-27-1951
    actor: Dan Murray "One Man's Family"; Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero
    Wolfe"
    08-15-1918 - David Baskerville - Freehold, NJ - d. 12-27-1986
    nbc staff composer and conductor: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"
    09-27-1917 - James Andelin - Provo, UT - d. 12-27-2006
    actor: "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; Og, Son of Fire"; "Houseboat Hannah"
    11-05-1914 - Jack McVea - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-27-2000
    saxophonist: "One Night Stand"; "Jubilee"
    11-11-1913 - Jess Oppenheimer - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-27-1988
    writer: "The Jack Benny Program"; The Baby Snooks Show"; My Favorite
    Husband"
    11-11-1930 - Hank Garland - Cowpens, SC - d. 12-27-2004
    guitarist: "Jim Reeves Show"; "Country Music Time"; "Country Style
    [removed]"
    11-22-1899 - Hoagy Carmichael - Bloomington, IN - d. 12-27-1981
    singer, composer: "Hoagy Carmichael Show"; "King's Men"
    12-07-1905 - Leonard Goldenson - Scottsdale, PA - d. 12-27-1999
    owner of the ABC network

    Ron

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