Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #364
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Date: 11/26/2005 9:17 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 364
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Razor blade radios                    [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      11-25 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      reel to reel tapes for sale           [ <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; ]
      Help!                                 [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
      Broadway is My Beat - Ross Lock       [ Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@yahoo ]
      11-26 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:25:49 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Razor blade radios

>     Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:16:04 -0500
>     From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];

>     As far as the diode is concerned, during World War II, many GIs made
>     "razor blade radios," by using a cat's whisker probe on a razor blade.

    When I was in 4th grade, someone gave me a book about how radio and television worked --
    "All About Radio and Television" by Jack Gould -- and one chapter contained instructions for
    making a razor blade radio.  This version used a safety pin, with a piece of pencil lead
    attached to the point, as the cat's whiskers.  The enhanced version called for a real crystal
    and cat's whiskers.  The final enhancement added a variable capacitor -- or "condenser" as
    they used to be called.

    I never actually made the radio, but it was fun to read about, and I still have the book.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     15 Court Square, Suite 210                 Fax [removed]
    Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:25:57 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-25 births/deaths

    November 25th births

    11-25-1893 - Jack Frost - Boston, MA - d. 10-21-1959
    producer: "The National Barn Dance"
    11-25-1894 - Laurence Stallings - Macon, GA - d. 2-28-1968
    writer: "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt" based on his play "What Price
    Glory?"
    11-25-1896 - Virgil Thomson - Kansas City, MO - d. 9-30-1989
    composer: "Columbia Workshop"
    11-25-1897 - Willie 'The Lion' Smith - Goshen, NY - d. 4-18-1973
    jazz pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
    11-25-1899 - Kay Strozzi - Swan's Point Plantation, VA - 1-18-1996
    actress: Shelia Blade "I Love Linda Dale"; Victoria Lorring "Young Widder
    Brown"
    11-25-1900 - Helen Gahagan Douglas - Boonton, NJ - d. 6-28-1980
    actress: (Wife of Melvin Douglas) "Hollywood Fights Back"; "A Report to the
    Nation"
    11-25-1904 - Jessie Royce Landis - Chicago, IL - d. 2-2-1972
    actress: "We Are Always Young"
    11-25-1905 - Will Osborne - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1981
    bandleader, singer: "Abbott and Costello"
    11-25-1912 - Henry Denker - New York, NY
    writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Greatest Story Ever Told"
    11-25-1914 - Joe DiMaggio - Martinez, CA - d. 3-8-1999
    baseball superstar: "Joe DiMaggio Show"
    11-25-1916 - Peg Lynch - Lincoln, NE
    writer, actress: Ethel Arbuckle "Ethel and Albert"; "Couple Next Door"
    11-25-1919 - Norman Tokar - Newark, NJ - d. 4-6-1979
    actor: Henry Aldrich "The Aldrich Family"
    11-25-1920 - Ricardo Montalban - Mexico City, Mexico
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "As Easy as [removed]"

    November 25th deaths

    04-04-1914 - Rosemary Lane - Indianola, IA - d. 11-25-1974
    singer: (The Lane Sisters) "Fred Waring Show"; "Your Hollywood Parade"
    04-29-1912 - Richard Carlson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 11-25-1977
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-16-1907 - Jack Albertson - Malden, MA - d. 11-25-1981
    actor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Cavalcade of
    America"
    07-13-1889 - Frank M. Thomas - St. Joseph, MO - d. 11-25-1989
    actor: Police Captain "Martin Kane, Private Eye"
    07-30-1912 - Edward L. Bliss - Fizhou, China - d. 11-25-2002
    cbs news correspondent: (One of Morrow's Boys) CBS News Twentieth Century
    Roundup"
    08-28-1895 - H. Norman Schwarzkopf - Newark, NJ - d. 11-25-1958
    narrator: "Gangbusters"
    12-25-1907 - Matt Brooks - New York, NY - d. 11-25-1990
    writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:02:37 -0500
    From: <vzeo0hfk@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  reel to reel tapes for sale

    I'm selling 9 brand new ampex 1800' 641 reel to reel tapes - best offer
    accepted

    Howard Blue

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    Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:03:18 -0500
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Help!
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            I saw an old eps of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" last night on TV.
    They brought back several OTR performers and had them perform on
    the show they were writing for.  One of them, in particular, caught my
    attention.  I never got her name, but was told that she was referred to as
    "The Human Chatterbox".  My curiosity is getting the best of me.  Does
    anyone know what her name was?

    Another OTR Fan,

    Kenneth Clarke

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    Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:01:59 -0500
    From: Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Broadway is My Beat - Ross Lock

    Hi,

    I've been enjoying the very excellent series Broadway
    is My Beat.  Does a complete dub exist of 12/28/51.
    By the time I did some of them, a few transcriptions
    had deteriorated and unfortunately my copy is missing
    the first 6 minutes.

    Trav

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    Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:10:43 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-26 births/deaths

    November 26th births

    11-26-1891 - Anne Nichols - Dales Mill, GA - d. 9-15-1966
    writer: "Abie's Irish Rose"
    11-26-1905 - Emlyn Williams - Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales - d. 9-25-1987
    actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
    11-26-1907 - Francis Dee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-6-2004
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-26-1907 - Henry "Hot Lips" Levine - London, England - d. 5-6-1989
    trumpeter, conducter: "Chamber Music of Lower Basin Street"; "Strictly from
    Dixie"
    11-26-1910 - Cyril Cusack - Durban, South Africa - d. 10-7-1993
    actor: "Great Expectations"
    11-26-1911 - Robert Donley - Carmichaels, PA - d. 1-20-2004
    actor: "Lieutenant Carpenter "Front Page Farrell"
    11-26-1912 - Eric Sevareid - Velva, ND - d. 7-9-1992
    correspondent: "Eric Sevaried and the News"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
    11-26-1913 - Bill Baldwin - Pueblo, CO - d. 11-17-1982
    announcer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Mario Lanza Show"
    11-26-1915 - Earl Wild - Pittsburgh, PA
    pianist: KDKS Pittsburgh; "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
    11-26-1917 - Adele Jergens - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-22-2002
    actress: Carol Curtis "Stand By For Crime"
    11-26-1919 - Frederick Pohl - New York, NY
    writer: "X-Minus One"
    11-26-1933 - Robert Goulet - Lawrence, MA
    singer-actor: "Guard Session"; "Voices of Vista"

    November 26th deaths

    01-26-1922 - Michael Bentine - Watford, Hertfordshie, England - d. 11-26-1996
    comedian: "Goon Show"
    02-04-1909 - Robert Coote - London, England - d. 11-26-1982
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"
    04-12-1902 - John White - d. 11-26-1992
    country/western singer: Lonesome Cowboy "Death Valley Days"
    05-06-1906 - Mathilde Ferror - d. 11-26-1990
    writer: "Lorenzo Jones"
    05-23-1910 - Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers - Terre Haute, IN - d. 11-26-1986
    jazz musician: early radio into the 40s
    06-18-1885 - Ernie Adams - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-26-1947
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-23-1883 - Albert Warner - Poland - d. 11-26-1967
    co-founder of warner brothers: "Warner Brothers Academy Theatre"
    10-15-1898 - Ransom Sherman - Appleton, WI - d. 11-26-1985
    actor: Uncle Dennis "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Hap Hazard "Hap Hazard"
    10-16-1903 - "Wild Bill" Elliott (Gordon Nance) - Pattonsburg, MO - d.
    11-26-1965
    actor: Wild Bill Elliott "Wild Bill Elliott"
    11-19-1905 - Tommy Dorsey - Shenandoah, PA - d. 11-26-1956
    bandleader: "Jack Pearl Program"; "Fame and Fortune"; "Tommy Dorsey Show"
    xx-xx-1879 - Julian Noa - d. 11-26-1958
    actor: Perry White "Advs. of Superman"; Judge Scott "The O'Neills"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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