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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 108


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 [removed] Digest V96 #107
	 Straight Arrow
	 Re: Henry and Harry ????
	 OTR local broadcasts
	 Radio @ 100 Years
	 Radio History Sources
	 RE: Henry and Harry ????
	 Henry Morgan / Harry Morgan
	 Captain Midnight
	 Diets/Henry-Harry Morgan
	 Henry Morgan one more time
	 Arthur Godfrey
	 Bobby Benson
	 Judge Hooker's health fads & etc
	 Re: Henry and Harry????

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 96 11:20:53 EST
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To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: [removed] Digest V96 #107
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:22:36 -0800 (PST)
From: roy547@[removed] (Roy Trumbull)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Straight Arrow
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I had forgotten all about Straight Arrow. Frankly, from
my readings of newspaper accounts and stories of settlers,
dressing up as an Indian would only have led to an early
grave. Our reinvention of history ignores that fact that
the Indians and settlers were really hard at it in some
parts. 
Injustice on both fronts is hardly served by a pleasant
fiction a hundred years later. But, I did listen to SA
when I was a kid.

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 96 09:24:14 PST
From: dmturne@[removed] (Dave Turner)
To: [removed]![removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Henry and Harry ????
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Harry Morgan (Col Potter on MASH) began his career as Henry Morgan.
He changed his name to Harry sometime in the late 1940s (or early 1950s)
because of the popular radio star named Henry Morgan. Checking the film
credits listed in "The Film Encyclopedia" for Harry and cross-referenceing
them with a Leonary Maltin movie book credits Henry for movies up until
the late 1940s, then credits Harry thereafter.

"The Film Encyclopedia" has a short film-bio on Harry (nee Henry) Morgan.

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 12:53:25 -0600 (CST)
From: barrym <barrym@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR local broadcasts
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

I wonder if it might be possible (assuming it's legal) to
set up our own relay system for otr broadcasts.  I could record
some of those that are played in Houston, others could record
some of those in their cities, and we could have some
kind of exchange setup.

Anybody interested?

Barry

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:14:59 -0500 (EST)
From: SAH@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Radio @ 100 Years
Message-id: <01I2N4BAM7OY8WYVJ5@[removed]>

    Franklin Mint, Franklin Center, PA  19092-2720 is offering a series
    of radios to commemorate Radio at 100 years in conjunction with
    the National Museum of Communications.  They are working AM/FM radios
    crafted in silver plate and gold plate in the style of a particular
    popular radio from the Golden era.  They are pricey but good for
    that corner or room dedicated to our favorite art form.

+ + +

    I recently discovered a monthly magazine called "Antique Radio Classified"
    with over 100 pages of classified ads, stories, pictures, and info
    about shows and meets dedicated to old time radio hardware.  The
    March issue (Vol 13, #3) has a cover story about KDKA Radio - World's
    First Commercial Radio Tower.
    If interested contact - Antique Radio Classified
                            P. O. Box 2
                            Carlisle, MA  01741

                            Telephone 508 371-0512

     6th Month trial subscription is $[removed] in [removed]

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:23:13 -0600
From: Richard Veit <Richard_Veit@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Radio History Sources
Message-id: <[removed]@[removed]>

                       Subject:                               Time:1:07 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          Radio History Sources                  Date:3/22/96

For you radio historians out there, I have come across a sizeable (564 pp.)
reference book that may prove useful if you are researching OTR topics. It is
"Radio Broadcasting from 1920 to 1990: an Annotated Bibliography," edited by
Diane Foxhill Carothers (New York: Garland Pub., 1991). I'm not sure whether
it is still in print, but you might wish to consult your local public or
college library for availability.

Richard J. Veit

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Date: 22 Mar 96 15:32:52 EST
From: "Robert I. Scherago" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: RE: Henry and Harry ????
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

In response to "Ross & Corinne Learn" <learn@[removed]>:

>Okay, NOW I'm confused.  I thought that I had this Henry Morgan
>Harry Morgan thing straight.  Harry Morgan portrayed Col. Potter on 
>MASH.  I assumed he also played a role in The Glenn Miller Story.  
>... Can someone 
>help me with the correct answers?????
>[removed]

I remember seeing a book on OTR/TV some years ago, a
directory of people and [removed] the listing for Col. Potter
was Henry "Harry" Morgan (or perhaps vice versa.)

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 18:24:12 -0500
From: stevecap@[removed] (Steven Capsuto)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Henry Morgan / Harry Morgan
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Ross Learn asked about the Harry/Henry Morgan confusion.

The actor Harry Morgan (DRAGNET, M*A*S*H, etc.) did originally use the name
Henry Morgan.  However, the WOR announcer/humorist Henry Morgan was already
using that name.  His people contacted the "new guy's" people and arranged
for the "newcomer" to use the name Harry.  As I recall, neither of them was
actually named Morgan.

Anyhoo, that's the version that Henry Morgan gave in an interview on WBAI in
the 1980s.
___
Steven Capsuto, Philadelphia
stevecap@[removed]
WEB page: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 18:36:39 -0500
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Captain Midnight
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Episode 5 of the Captain Midnight series I am
running is now available at my web site:

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Jim Widner                      INTERNET: jwidner@[removed]
Dayton, OH                      WWW: [removed]
COMPUSERVE: 74566,3041          
AOL: JimWidner                            

                                                 

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 19:23:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: wmackey@[removed]
To: otr <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Diets/Henry-Harry Morgan
Message-id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Richard Weil-- When Judge Hooker was on that diet it was a fad and 
something that most people didn't do.  It would be something like a show 
today talking about someone who eats tofu, does yoga and all that, in a 
comedical sort of way.

As for the remark Gildy had about not getting good service in the 
department store, that is as old as I can remember.  I saw a film once 
made in the early 30s where an old man was fussing about modern cars that 
came off the assembly line and how they "aren't made like they were in 
the old days" and how he considered them flimsy.

Also films of that era often had people talking about how difficult it 
was to hire good (household) help.  :)

Ross Learn, re: Henry/Harry Morgan.

Harry Morgan was orginally known as Henry Morgan when he started in films 
in the 40s.  There was another actor named Henry Morgan and it was 
suggested he change his name since the other Henry had been around longer 
and this would not confuse people.  In the late 40s/early 50s he became 
"Harry Morgan".

Joe Mackey 
Huntington, WV

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 20:59:39 -0500
From: MVHaas@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
cc: MVHaas@[removed]
Subject: Henry Morgan one more time
Message-ID: <960322205934_175279085@[removed]>

   Well, it looks like my original post on Henry Morgan's death  is lost in
the  Internet twilight zone, which makes the followup that did make it in V96
#106 sort of confusing.
   The original post was:
>According to The Internet Movie Database ([removed]):
>
>Henry Morgan died May 19, 1994, at Manhattan, at the age of 79.
>
>(The Internet Movie Database is a quick way to find birth/death dates for
>those radio stars who crossed over into movies--and there are more of those
>than you would think.)

    From the same source for Ross Learn regarding Henry Morgan and Harry
Morgan:

  " Not to be confused with the film actor Harry Morgan, who in his earlier
     days had used the pseudonym Henry Morgan. (But radio's Henry having
     used that moniker first, filmdom's Henry renamed himself Harry.)"

Hope this [removed]    Best -- Merlin Haas

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 22:08:16 -0500
From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Arthur Godfrey
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

To Paul White.

I have several of Arthur Godfrey radio shows on tape.

In fact I have quite a few of his television shows on audio tape. Many of
his radio shows were similcast on TV and I recorded the audio from the
television show.

I also have some audio from his night time show. I think it was on Wednesday
night, but I could be wrong.

                                        Fred

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 22:29:26 -0500
From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Bobby Benson
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I have one Bobby Benson and the B bar B Riders show. The Three Monkeys. I
remember listening to that show. I believe it was on three or maybe five
times a week. Wasn't it on around 5 PM.

I could research the exact time and day, but this is just from my memory.

Just a note about premiums.

I did own, but no longer, the Olvaltine shacker. But, sitting right in front
of me is a red mug from a show called Sandy Strong. Does anyone remember
that show? Even my memory is kind of fuzzy about it.

It might have been television. It was sponsored by Olvaltine. I don't know
how this mug has survived. It has the Sandy Strong song on one side. Part of
it has come off, but what is left reads.

drink a glass of Olvaltine

with your meals and in between

it's good for you and taste so keen
You'll love it's chocolate flaver

                                            Fred

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 22:41:15 -0500
From: FabFicBks@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Judge Hooker's health fads & etc
Message-ID: <960322200617_452622301@[removed]>

Hi Everyone,
     The note on Judge Hooker and Gildy struck a cord with me.  I too was
fascinated that so many of the "old fossil's" health gimicks sounded very
80's and 90's.  I don't think there is any great mystery to this, tho.
 Physicians have been telling us for centuries that the best way to good
health is to eat carefully, with lots of vegitables and basic foods, little
or no alcohol/drugs, and moderate exercise.
     Up until the late 19th century this was pretty much unncessary advise,
since people worked from dawn till dusk and dropped dead from exhaustion or
heart desease or arrow holes in their T-shirts, or the like.
     Modern civilization has added lots of heavy technology, which provides
some health dangers, but mostly provides lots of leasure time for the masses,
and we have used it to overeat, lounge around in a semi-comotose state, or
overindulve in alcohol and other extermes which are not conductive to good
health.
     The thing I always noticed about the Judge Hooker health stuff was that
the Judge regarded it pretty much as as a punishment, and so did Gildy, and
so did everybody else on the show.  Eating whole-wheat bread, using an indoor
exerise machine, eating raw veggie salads and the like was consided some sort
of hideous punishment that the Judge had to endure because he was a) real
old, and b) a weirdo hypocondriac.  Nobody but nobody on that show thought
that wheat germ cookies or carrot juice cocktails were much fun, or even
endurable.
     The big wheel turns.  Today a lot of the Judge's health food recipes
that he and his friend Gildy were "forced" to endure are considered tasty and
trendy.  Except for the every present "milk toast" which the Judge was
constantly ordering up, most of his other culinary demands sound decent to
me, and probably would be for most of the people reading these digests in the
'90s.
     The comments on bad service and rude children go a lot farther back than
the 1940's.  I'm sure most everybody is familiar with the widely quoted
comment about college kids on the brink of anarchy, with no regard for the
standards of law and reason, enperiling the fabric of civilzation with their
outrageous demands and reactions to civil authority.  That one was penned by
Adolph Hitler in 1932, but you can find almost the same sentiments expressed
by Socrates in ancient Greece, who also bemoaned the fact that the youth of
his day berated their parents, insulted the gods, laughted at the  laws and
conventions of society, and showed no respect for their elders.  Human beings
don't change much over the years.
     On another subject,  There are about 15 shows of Pat Novack around,
mostly stuff from Armed Forces Radio that turned up in the late sixties and
earlie seventities.  I helped turn up some of those programs.  Most
commercial dealers and clubs have these readily available.  I was always
amazed that more of the program was not to be had.  This was cutting edge
radio for its time, film noir/hard core crime/inventive narrative
stylistically ragged radio designed deliberately to push the detective story
over the edge.      Jack Webb was perfect for the role and the
smart/hard-mouth/cynical nillistic attitude of Novack pretty much paraphrased
the attitude of many people in the late forties-early fifties.  The system
was fixed, nobody wins, even the high rollers take it in the back sooner or
later.  As Novack said, in his neighborhood people figured it was better to
be a fat guy in a coffin than a thin guy in jam.  The narrative flow is
usually far more interesting than the actual plots, and as a hero, even an
anti-hero,. Novack is pretty much a loser.  But it's a great show, and I wish
there were more around.
     Would your friends involved in those early Novack shows be interested in
doing interviews or answering some questions about that program and their
careers in early radio?  Could provide some interest background info.

---Bob Jennings

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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 02:53:58 -0500 (EST)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: airwaves <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Re: Henry and Harry????
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

	Harry Morgan did start his career as Henry.  He had heard the 
name in  NY and liked the sound of it.  Unfortunately, when the WOR "Here's
Morgan" Henry discovered the other Henry, he made him change the name.
There's some Hollywood "law" of first come, first served when it comes to 
names, and Henry V. (Von Ost)((sp?)) Morgan had it first.  He even recounts 
the story on an existing episode of Here's Morgan from 3/26/42. 
	Speaking of Here's Morgan, I recently reported 11 known shows -
thanks to this wonderful forum I've discovered at least 5 more, from 1941!
These are earlier than any I had found before.

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