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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2017 : Issue 22
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  April Issue RADIO RECALL              [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  The Big Story                         [ Zane <intraverse@[removed]; ]

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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 20:10:23 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  April Issue RADIO RECALL

The April 2017 issue of RADIO RECALL in full-color went out to PDF
subscribers on April 1st.  The B & W hard copy will be mailed to other
subscribers in the next few weeks. The issue leads off with the headlined
article on the cessation of Imagination Theatre, the Washington State based
OTR umbrella created by Jim French. In this piece, Stewart Wright, a
long-time affiliate of this syndicated weekly series, delineates the history
of it and the reasons for its planned retirement.

The history of radio's sound effects stretches all the way back to Greek
theater and then evolved through Elizabethan stage, American vaudeville, and
the silent film era. This second main article features Ora Nichols, the woman
who created the craft of radio sound effects, joined CBS in 1928 and then
recruited and trained the sound effects personnel for its network shows. The
piece also covers animal voices, sounds of babies, and why radio's sound
effects personnel were NOT Foley artists.

Our third major article is Part II of the Joe Palooka broadcasting story.
Herein, Karl Schadow describes the famous fictional boxer's radio appearances
in the 1940s, including both syndicated versions and the attempts to get it
on Mutual Broadcasting System. Also covered is the modest 26 episode version
in the 1950s on television.

No April issue would be complete with some April Foolishness so three short
pieces fill that requirement. Mark Anderson authors an account of the MWOTRC
members going to Dayton, Ohio to participate in a semi-pro baseball game
while Andy Marx pens a tribute to the Vienna, VA History Players launching a
new musical highlighting the 1815 Congress of Vienna Treaty. The third piece
attempts to establish that Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians originally
consisted of a native son of Transylvania, Gus Lumbago, Jr. and his Lilting
Lumbagos,.

All this, plus Letters to the Editor and complete details on all upcoming OTR
events. The retiring editor of RADIO RECALL, having churned out 141
consecutive issues over 23 plus years, says farewell to his faithful
subscribers in one-page memory summary. His place will be taken by popular
OTR author and historian, Martin Grams, Jr., whose first edition will be
released in June.

To read past issues of RADIO RECALL, or to get information on joining MWOTRC,
point your mouse at www. mwotrc. com

Jack French
(Retiring Editor)

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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 20:17:14 -0400
From: Zane <intraverse@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Big Story

 4/2

 1947   The Big Story was first heard on NBC. It stayed on the air for
 eight years.

  "The Big Story" was one of the greatest radio docudrama series. It also
translated fabulously to TV, from September 16, 1949 until sometime in 1958.
Richard Strauss' EIN HELDENLEBEN music was a masterfully selected theme for
the heroic feel of the radio and Emmy-nominated television series. My high
school debate teacher was the first wife of the late Ed Neumeier, who also
taught at the school (San Bernardino High), and he was always rightly so
proud of the NBC award:

  "Edward J. Neumeier, journalist, teacher and school administrator, died
August 25, 2010, of lung disease complications. He was 86. As a young
reporter in Eureka, Neumeier received several awards, including one from the
California Newspapers Association when a double murderer confessed and
surrendered to him. His scoop was the basis of a TV episode on "The Big
Story." As a journalism teacher and administrator, he was associated with the
Tamalpais Union High School District for more than 20 years. Active in the
1960s in the Marin Council for Civic Affairs, he served on the Juvenile
Justice Commission and did volunteer legal work for San Quentin inmates.
After retirement, Neumeier and his wife, the former Gloria Wyeth Melbostad,
lived and taught overseas for many years. They taught in Africa, China and
Vietnam and, after the Soviet Union collapsed, in the newly independent
countries of Estonia, Lithuania and Czechoslovakia, where they worked with
the Soros Foundation Civic Education project. More recently, they taught at
the American University in Kosovo. One of twelve children, Ed Neumeier was
born and raised in Van Nuys, California. He served in the Army Air Forces in
Italy during World War II, worked briefly for US Intelligence service in Asia
and later graduated from Eastern Washington College, receving his law degree
from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, CA. His survivors, besides his
wife, include one brother and four sisters, his son, Edward Vann Neumeier
also a writer, of Los Angeles, CA, two daughters, Lisa Barkalow of Carmel and
Shelley Neumeier of Farley, NY, and six grandchildren. Memorial services to
be held at a later date." Published in Marin Independent Journal on August
28, 2010

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  With dedicated, factual and courageous journalism now under political
siege, this exemplary story series should be revived for both radio and
television. Such true and intrepid accounts are always relevant and inspiring
to all of us.

 Zane

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