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Date: 5/10/2015 10:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2015 : Issue 43
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      FOTR 2005 - Photo ID Help Request     [ Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed]; ]
      UK paper comments on famed Welles br  [ Michael Berger <[removed]@yaho ]
      Ending World War II in Europe         [ Brian Rogers <brogers3909@sbcglobal ]
      Alice Anderson NYC memorial service   [ Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 10-16 May  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 12:06:58 -0400
    From: Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  FOTR 2005 - Photo ID Help Request

>     I have been going through a bunch of photos from fotr 2005 &
>     unfortunately drew a blank on two:

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    The first photo ([removed]) is of the late great Donald Buka.

    - Gregg Oppenheimer

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    Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 12:07:06 -0400
    From: Michael Berger <[removed]@[removed];
    To: Otr <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  UK paper comments on famed Welles broadcast
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    The Telegraph's Martin Chilton, Culture Editor online, posted a lengthy
    commentary on the 100th anniversary of Orson Welles' birth that recounted,
    once again, the distorted aftermath of the famous War of the Worlds broadcast
    in 1938. B Some excerpts follow [removed] Michael Berger
    ". . .In the immediate aftermath of the broadcast, analysts in Princetonbs
    Office of Radio Research, working under the direction of Professor Hadley
    Cantril, sought to verify a rumour that several people had been treated for
    shock at St Michaelbs Hospital in Newark, NJ after the programme. The rumour
    was found to be false. In addition, when they surveyed six New York City
    hospitals in December 1938, they found that bnone of them had any record of
    any cases brought in specifically on account of the broadcastb. A Washington
    Post claim that a man died of a heart attack brought on by listening to the
    programme was never verified. Police records for New Jersey did show an
    increase in calls on the night of the show. However, in the preface to his
    textbook Introduction to Collective Behaviour, academic David Miller points
    out that: "Some people called to find out where they could go to donate blood.
    Some callers were simply angry that such a realistic show was allowed on the
    air, while others called CBS to congratulate Mercury Theatre for the exciting
    Halloween programme".
    ". . .On the evening of October 30, 1938, most people tuning into radio were
    in fact listening to the highly popular Chase and Sanborn Hour. . .which was
    airing at the same time as War of the Worlds on competing [network] NBC. The
    radio ratings survey firm CE Hooper Company were, coincidentally, conducting a
    telephone poll that night of approximately five thousand households. They
    asked: "To what programme are you listening?b Only two per cent of people
    said they were listening to The War of the Worlds. In addition, several key
    CBS affiliate radio stations (including Bostonbs WEEI) decided to carry
    local commercial shows rather than Welles's programme, further shrinking its
    audience.
    ". . .Research published six weeks after the broadcast by the American
    Institute of Public Opinion was skewed. They later admitted that figures of
    one million people listening to the programme were wildly inaccurate.
    "Newspaper headlines about the event were lurid. 'Radio Listeners in Panic,
    Taking War Drama as Fact' was the front page headline on The New York Times.
    'Radio Fake Scares Nation', said the Chicago Herald and Examiner. 'US
    Terrorised By Radio's Men From Mars' said the San Francisco Chronicle. There
    were also front page stories in the The Boston Daily Globe and The Detroit
    News. One repeated claim was that within a month, 12,500 articles had been
    published throughout the world on the alien mass panic. Yet in his
    comprehensive analysis of contemporaneous reporting in a book called Getting
    it Wrong, American University professor W Joseph Campbell found that almost
    all newspapers swiftly dropped the story. bCoverage of the broadcast faded
    quickly from the front pages, in most cases after just a day or two," he
    wrote
    ". . . the first radio hoax was broadcast on 16 January 1926, on the BBC. A
    talk on 18th-century British literature was interrupted by a 12-minute series
    of fictitious news bulletins about a riot in London, in which Big Ben was
    blown up by mortars, the Savoy Hotel burnt down and a politician lynched on a
    tramway post. The show, curiously, was written by Father Ronald Knox, a
    Catholic priest. . ."

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    Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 12:08:00 -0400
    From: Brian Rogers <brogers3909@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Ending World War II in Europe

    Enclosed is a link to my blog post about the radio coverage of the German surrender ending World War II in Europe 70 years ago this week.

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    Thanks,
    Brian Rogers
    Dearborn, Michigan

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    Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 12:08:06 -0400
    From: Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Alice Anderson NYC memorial service
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    Originating withB Craig Wichman:
    Dear Friends-

    Alice Andersonbs memorial service will be held on Saturday, 16 May,
    atB 11:00 [removed], in Manhattan's Church of the Ascension, at the corner of
    FifthB
    Avenue and Tenth St.

    All are welcome to come give thanks for the life of Alice Anderson, for her
    presence with Arthur in that church community, and for the knowledge thatB
    she is now at peace.

    Rev. Edwin T. Chinery will be officiating/celebrating the Rite of Christian
    Burial with Eucharist, and Fr. Bill Lutz (Alicebs nephew) will preach.

    There will be an informal reception, with light refreshments, afterwards in
    the Parish Hall nearby.

    Feel free to share this information with interested parties.

    All best,
    -Craig Wichman

    [removed] - (Also, please note that Arthur is now home, and stable.)

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    Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 12:09:11 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 10-16 May

     From Those Were The Days

    5/10

    1927   The Hotel Statler in Boston, MA. became the first hotel to
    install radio headsets in each of its 1,300 rooms.

    5/11

    1946 - Jack Barry hosted "Juvenile Jury" on WOR radio in New York City.
    The show was such a hit after five weeks on the air that it debuted on
    the Mutual Broadcasting System coast to coast.

    5/12

    1812 --  Edward Lear, who helped popularize limericks, was born.  A
    popular limerick regarding radio was this bit of doggerel from any
    unknown wit:
        There once a was a man named Nation,
        Who worked for a radio station.
        Although he was tall,
        His hands were too small,
        Wee paws for station identification.

    5/14

    1945 - "The Sparrow and the Hawk", a serial for kids, was first
    broadcast over CBS radio.

    1945 - "Tennessee Jed" made his debut on ABC radio. Johnny Thomas played
    the part of Tennessee Jed Sloan.

    5/15

    1933 - Irna Phillips, an NBC Blue network program-features writer,
    starred in the role of Mother Moran in the radio program, "Today's
    Children", which was heard for the first time this day.

    Joe

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