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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 470

Table Of Contents: 

	 Re: Sheldon Leonard and Kathryn Hite
	 Cultural ignorance 
	 Book
	 Commercials
	 Sheldon Leonard in It's a Wonderful Life
	 Who Remembers / One More Note Regarding Leonard
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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 01:47:38 -0500 (EST)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
cc: Bigkids@[removed], "Norman G. Cox" <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Re: Sheldon Leonard and Kathryn Hite
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On Tue, 3 Dec 1996 Norman Cox wrote:

> The credits give the name of the new writer as
> Kathryn Hite.  I can't find her in The Big Broadcast or Dunning's Tune In
> Yesterday.  She does bring a different, more deliberate pace to the show.  
> 
	You would have found her listed in the Gunsmoke book, however.  
She was one of the regular writers of the series.  I believe she passed 
away earlier this year, as I seem to recall doing a Gunsmoke rebroadcast
in her memory not long ago.
	Sheldon Leonard was on the stump last year promoting his autobiography.
I'm surprised Dick Lupoff missed this oportunity for his show!

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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 04:17:08 -0500
From: ErikS74342@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cultural ignorance 
Message-ID: <961204041708_1219567349@[removed]>

In a message dated 96-12-04 00:43:18 EST, Daevid MacKenzie writes:

<< ..Interestingly, on Tom Snyder's CNBC cable talk show a few years ago, 
 TS and Harlan Ellison were similarly marvelling at Snyder's odd 
 experience when Lowell Thomas [removed] turned out (as I recall Snyder 
 telling it, anyway) that nobody working on the crew of Snyder's WABC-TV 
 New York newscast that night knew who Thomas was!...[removed] even 
 more bizarre than that will be the day 25 years from now when I comment 
 to one of my grandchildren on what I myself listened to as a kid, and 
 they'll look up at me and ask, "Who was Wolfman Jack?"... >>

I think I can top that -- almost. But it really happened. I write a political
column for my local newspaper, and last weekend, out of desperation after a
Thanksgiving week devoid of political news, I wrote a smarta** column about
the many things we have to be thankful for. One of those things that starts
out with "So let us be [removed]" and runs through a series of bullet
items.

One was: "(BULLET) That Ross Perot appears to be assuming the role of a
statesman. Unfortunately, the statesman's name is Harold Stassen."

The editor, who happens to be the same age I am (34) demanded I remove it. He
figured that if he didn't know who Harold Stassen is, and if it made him feel
stupid when I had to explain it to him, then it would the readers as well.  

[removed], so it's a little [removed] but you know, I remember hearing the
editors whispering a month or so [removed] "You know, he listens to old radio
[removed]"

Erik Smith
Kennewick, Wash.

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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:11:57 -0500
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Book
Message-ID: <961204091157_1520821872@[removed]>

Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 -
1960.  This book was written by Thomas DeLong, is 328 pages and is published
by McFarland (1-800-253-2187).  Cost is $[removed]  For each artist there is a
listing of their radio programs, birth and death dates (where appropriate)
and a biography which focuses on their work in radio.

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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 10:34:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Patrick Franzis <franzis@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Commercials
Message-Id: <[removed]@esun212>
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  Hi All,

  After listening to string of consecutive Jack Benny programs, 
  I began to wonder if commercials were recorded and
  replayed for each program or if they were done live
  on the air. For instance, the Lucky Strike commercials
  sound the same from week to week. Anyone know?
 
  Thanks,

  -Patrick

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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:36:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Charles Ulrich <culrich@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Sheldon Leonard in It's a Wonderful Life
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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Although Sheldon Leonard did not play the cabdriver in It's A Wonderful
Life, he did play Nick the bartender, who would have owned the bar if only
that meddling George Bailey had never been born.

--Charles

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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 12:56:39 -0500
From: Bigkids@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Who Remembers / One More Note Regarding Leonard
Message-ID: <961204125638_1186121971@[removed]>

In a message dated 96-12-04 00:44:41 EST, Bob Cockrum wrote:

<< ..Interestingly, on Tom Snyder's CNBC cable talk show a few years ago, 
 TS and Harlan Ellison were similarly marvelling at Snyder's odd 
 experience when Lowell Thomas [removed] turned out (as I recall Snyder 
 telling it, anyway) that nobody working on the crew of Snyder's WABC-TV 
 New York newscast that night knew who Thomas was!...[removed] even 
 more bizarre than that will be the day 25 years from now when I comment 
 to one of my grandchildren on what I myself listened to as a kid, and 
 they'll look up at me and ask, "Who was Wolfman Jack?"...
  >>

Yes indeed. Reminds me of an incident a while ago at one of my favorite
saloons. (Stop me if you've heard this one.) My wife and I having planted our
derrieres on our favorite bar stools, the bartender comes over, and she's new
-- new at this particular bar, that is.

As "regulars," we introduce ourselves, and she does the same. "My name is
Adele."

"Oh," I respond, "how wonderful. I've never actually met an Adele before.
Just like Adele Astaire."

She looks blank. "Who?"

Well, Adele Astaire is a fairly obscure reference since she left the act
before going to Hollywood, and is heard only on a few hard-to-obtain audio
tracks, So I say,

"Fred Astaire's sister."

And she looks blank. "Who?"

I said, "I'll have an Irish coffee, please."

Actually, the Lowell Thomas story reminds me of a conversation with my
children when they were little. Each of them gave his/her favorite TV show.
Then they wanted to know what Dad and Mom had watched as kids. We told them
we had no childhood TV favorites because we had no TV.

Oh, they commented, you must have been awfully poor.

No, we told them, there *was* no TV when we were children.

They were flabbergasted. It was as if we'd told them there were no sun and
moon when we were children, and everybody walked around with a flashlight in
his hand!

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In re: all the discussion of Sheldon Leonard lately -- I am struck by the
contrast with the parallel discussion of Jack Webb. While Webb was highly
controversial, and a number of of members (myself included) had some pretty
harsh things to say about him . . . not that I'm trying to revive that
thread, by the way: enough is enough! . . .

. . . Everybody who knows anything about Sheldon Leonard has had only
positive things to say about him. And they've been remarkably different, too
-- his work in films, on radio, in TV (as an actor), and his eye-popping list
of credits as a producer.

What a guy!

I was delighted to hear that he's still alive and active, and hope that he
stays with us for many more years.

Do you think he'd be interested in attending SPERDVAC? I know a lot of us
would love to meet him and express our thanks for all the wonderful work he's
done over the past 50 or 60 years!

Dick Lupoff

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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 01:12:37 -0500
From: wol@[removed] (William O. Lawton)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: remove
Message-Id: <v02120d05aecc16cbf528@[[removed]]>
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Please remove "dye@[removed]" from your [removed] mailing
list since he no longer has an email address here.
postmaster@[removed]

Thanks Bill,



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