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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2016 : Issue 23
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      ROMANCE                               [ Dick Backus <rbackus22@[removed]; ]
      Jack French - Time Compression        [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      So how far was Mars?                  [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]

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    Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 23:06:42 -0400
    From: Dick Backus <rbackus22@[removed];
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    Subject:  ROMANCE
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       I was looking through my Dunnings today, intending to read about the Cathy
    and Elliot Lewis series Romance. I looked under "Lewis", "Cathy & Eliot",
    etc, To my surprise, the only listing under "Romance" was about a series
    which ran from about 1943 to 1957. I assume that the Cathy & Eliot program
    was a part of that.
      Dunning mentions no less than seven iterations of that series, but no
    mention of the Lewises.
    Given their popularity, I wonder why.
                                                           Dick Backus
                                                           Monongahela, PA ( were
    Bob & Ray's ingots were made.)

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    Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 23:08:00 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
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    Subject:  Jack French - Time Compression

    In V2016 #22, Jack French wrote:

>     Probably the greatest compression of time in radio can be found in Orson
>     Welles' 1938 War of the [removed]
>     However in the WOTW program, all done in "real time" it's less than a  half
>     hour from when the fiery disturbances are noticed on Mars by Professor
>     Pierson (voice of Orson Welles) which appear to be "jet blue flames shot from
>     a gun" and the projectiles shot from Mars start arriving in the vicinity of
>     Grovers Mill, NJ.

    Ah, Jack, you just burst my bubble.  Here all this time I thought everything
    was for real! :-)

    --
    Jerry Haendiges

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    Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 23:14:13 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  So how far was Mars?
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    My posting on the time element of radio's War of the Worlds, mentioning its
    distance and the time to get from Mars to earth, has been researched by folks
    more science oriented than I am.  My estimate of 100 to 140 million miles
    requiring a trip of 170-300 days turns out to be too short for the date of the
    broadcast.

    In the script, writer Howard Koch (no scientist, he) puts these words in the
    mouth of Professor Pierson, when asked how far Mars is from earth:
    Approximately 40 million miles.

    The kicker is that the distance varies greatly, determined by the alignment of
    two bodies circling the sun. Digester Don Shenbarger, an amateur astronomer
    who worked at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago umpteen years ago, today
    calculated the orbital plot for Mars in relation to earth as of October 30,
    1938. During that period Mars was almost on the other side of the sun, or a
    distance of [removed] astronomical units, which translates into 224 million miles.

    So Professor Pierson (the authoritative voice of Orson Welles) miscalculated
    the distance by 184 million miles. This would suggest that listeners would
    have had to wait, not 28 minutes, but a number of years to hear the Martians
    land at Grovers Mill.

    My interest in Mars is personal, as my father, Arliss French, took a trip
    there in 1958. You can read all about this astonishing story by Googling the
    Burma Shave invitation of Free, Free, A Trip to Mars.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
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    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Warp drive; I tell you, the Martians had FTL Drive.
    [removed] J'onn J'onzz, he'll tell you. Heck, they had time to stop for
    an espresso and scone from the coffee shop on the far side of the moon, and
    _still_ make it here in a half-hour. Honest. Would I lie to you on a day like
    THIS ONE?  --cfs3]

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