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Date: 8/24/2013 7:44 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2013 : Issue 90
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      update on two radio events            [ "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@sbcgl ]
      An OTR book that is not an OTR book   [ Lance Grider <rangegrider@[removed] ]
      Quiz Kids                             [ Martin Gardner <magardner@optonline ]
      Elliott Lewis                         [ Dick Backus <rbackus22@[removed]; ]
      Peg Lynch                             [ "Bob Scherago" <scherago@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 25-31 Aug  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:38:54 -0400
    From: "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  update on two radio events
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    Hi Everybody,

    SPERDVAC is working hard on it up coming radio convebntions that will run
    from Friday 11-15-13 through  Sunday 11-17-13 at the Beverly Garland hotel.
    Right now we have 33 people who worked in the Golden Days of radio on panels
    and shows.  We will be addeing more names soon and we have other from TV,
    films and Radio that will be involve.  You can see a flyer at
    [removed] but we will be  releasing an update soon.  We will also
    have a brand new radio event in the USA and location too.  The newspaper the
    Vegas Voice is going to sponsor a one day radio event next year at the
    Places Station hotel on Saturday 3-29-14.  We will have shows and panels and
    start building a new home for a radio convention in Las Vegas NV.  Take
    care,

    Walden Hughes

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    Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:39:01 -0400
    From: Lance Grider <rangegrider@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  An OTR book that is not an OTR book

    Friends:

    I have completed my first eBook, titled Doom of Weirds, <<194>> and
    shamelessly placed it on [removed] for anyone
    in the world with $[removed] to buy. This is a work of fiction, not fact.
    Nevertheless, there are some important influences from OTR any fan will not
    help but notice. Some are blatant, some subtle.
    First and foremost: Two main characters are named Colonel
    Snoopnagle and Budd. (I changed F. Chase Taylor<<226>><<128>><<153>>s T to an
    N for comedic
    purposes only.)
    Three corporate lawyers are named Victor Strawman, Rush
    Woodson, and Sade Brickmush. The Four Yacht Club Boys sashay out. There are
    numerous
    other OTR names and memes I betcha.
    This is an original work of fiction, so please do not point
    out to anyone material shamelessly stolen from Fibber McGee and Molly or
    purloined
    from Bob and Ray. Do enough stealing and they call it art.
    Doom of Weirds is a Kindle ebook. If you do not have a Kindle,
    you can download a free application to read on your home [removed];<194>>
    Thank you and remember: Snoopnology is peachy!

    Lance Grider

     ***** WARNING! UNHANDLED BAD CHARACTER!!!!!

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    Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:39:18 -0400
    From: Martin Gardner <magardner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Quiz Kids
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    My new book, Quiz Kids, has just been released by McFarland.

    [removed];qid=1376955631&sr=8-1&keywords=gardner+quiz

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    Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:39:33 -0400
    From: Dick Backus <rbackus22@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Elliott Lewis

      I was listening to an old John Dunning interview with Elliott Lewis in
    which Lewis
    talks at some length about a series of detective stories he was
    writing.
    Does anyone know if they were ever published or where they might be
    available?
    There is no mention of them in his Wiki entry or on Amazon.
       Thanks,
    Dick Backus

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    Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:39:39 -0400
    From: "Bob Scherago" <scherago@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Peg Lynch

    One of the old time radio shows that I remember listening to so many years
    ago was "Ethel and Albert," starring Peg Lynch and Alan Bunce.

    The Golden Age of Radio program, produced by Dick Bertel in the '60s and
    '70s on WTIC in Hartford, features 84 hours of interviews with radio people,
    and excerpts from their shows. Program 4 presents Peg Lynch and Margaret
    Hamilton. But, thanks to Gary Smith, we also recovered a 2005 interview that
    Dick Bertel did with Peg Lynch.

    You can hear that interview, plus the 84 hours of "The Golden Age of Radio,"
    plus 42 hours of Arnold Dean's "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" and
    other features as well at <[removed];

    Bob Scherago
    Former engineer - WTIC-AM-FM-TV, Hartford, Connecticut

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    Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:39:46 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 25-31 August

     From Those Were The Days

    8/25

    1949   NBC debuted Father Knows Best. The Thursday night program aired
    for five years. Robert Young played the role of Jim Anderson, the ever
    patient father. The rest of the family included wife Margaret, son Bud
    and lovely daughters Betty (the eldest) and Kathy. The family lived on
    Maple Street in Springfield.

    8/26

    1939   Arch Oboler's Plays presented the NBC Symphony, for the first
    time, as the musical backdrop for the drama, This Lonely Heart.

    8/28

    1922   The first paid commercial to be broadcast on radio was heard on
    WEAF in New York City. Announcer [removed] Blackwell spoke about Hawthorne
    Court, a group of apartment buildings in Queens, New York. The
    Queensboro Realty Company, of Jackson Heights, bought what was called
    Toll Broadcasting. WEAF, owned by AT&T, sold their block programming,
    five one minute programs, one a day for five days, for $50 ($677 in
    2012) plus long distance toll fees. The Queensboro Realty Company paid
    $100 ($1354 in 2012 *) for 10 minutes of commercial airtime.
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    1938    The first degree given to a ventriloquist's dummy is awarded to
    Charlie McCarthy  Edgar Bergen's wooden partner. The honorary degree,
    "Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback," is presented on radio by Ralph
    Dennis, the dean of the School of Speech at Northwestern University.

    8/30

    1951   Screen Directors' Playhouse was heard for the final time on NBC.
      The program had featured some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

    8/31

    1941   The Great Gildersleeve, a spin off of Fibber McGee and Molly,
    started on NBC.

    1942   "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
    Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ... the caped crusader
    returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Superman had been
    dropped from the program schedule earlier in the year, but the outrage
    of youngsters brought the show back to the airwaves. Wow! The amazing
    power of Kryptonite in the hands of kids! Bud Collyer, later of TV's
    Beat the Clock, played Clark Kent aka Superman on the series.

    Joe

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