Subject: [removed] Digest V2003 #364
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 10/7/2003 5:47 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2003 : Issue 364
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Radio Station Listings                [ George Aust <austhaus1@[removed] ]
      I found this OTR [removed]              [ Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed] ]
      Today in radio history                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      OTR Stars' Final Resting Places       [ "Barnett, Tom L" <[removed]@lmc ]
      Live quiz shows                       [ "Philip Chavin" <philchav@[removed] ]
      Hi Brown in Tuesday's NY Times        [ Art Chimes <achimes@[removed]; ]
      10-8 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      OTR and Elliot Roosevelt mysteries    [ "[removed]" <ddunfee@[removed]; ]
      Apple Ipod                            [ "Ken Lanza" <klanza@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 00:47:13 -0400
    From: George Aust <austhaus1@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Radio Station Listings

    Hello Everyone

    I was wondering if there is a website where I might find a listing of
    radio stations and their network affiations that existed in the years
    1938 to 1945. I am working on a project in which this information would
    be very usefull.

    Thanks in Advance
    George Aust

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 00:52:54 -0400
    From: Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  I found this OTR [removed]

    I just found this site,
    <[removed];[removed]. It offers
    lots of streaming audio, in WindowsMedia, of old radio programs: popular
    series plus some "one-of" programs describing/reliving historical events
    such as "You Are There" episodes.
    Looks pretty good to me; I've added it to my 'Favorites' list in Internet
    Explorer.
    Anybody know why I shouldn't recommend it to OTR or history fans?

    Herb Harrison

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:46:46 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Today in radio history

     From Those Were The Days --

    1922 - The first radio network -- of sorts -- debuted. It was a network
    of just two stations. WJZ in Newark, NJ teamed with WGY in Schenectady,
    NY to bring the World Series game direct from the Polo Grounds in New
    York. Columnist Grantland Rice was behind the microphone for that broadcast.

    1939 - Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy was heard for the first time on CBS
    radio. Tom Hopkins, Kate's husband, was played by eventual Beat the
    Clock host Clayton 'Bud' Collyer. The 15-minute radio drama was written
    by Chester McCraken and Gertrude Berg (writer and Emmy Award-winning
    actress of The Goldbergs, a popular radio and TV series in the 1940s &
    1950s). The announcer for the four-year run of Angel of Mercy was Ralph
    Edwards of future This is Your Life fame. And the sponsor was Maxwell
    House of coffee fame.

    1940 - Portia Faces Life debuted on the NBC Red network. This radio soap
    opera centered around the life of Portia Blake Manning, an attorney and
    a widow with a young son.  Portia Faces Life was extremely popular, and
    therefore, had many sponsors -- none of which were soap. The sponsors
    included Post Toasties, Grape Nuts Flakes, Grape Nuts Wheat Meal,
    Maxwell House coffee, Jell-O desserts and La France bleach.

    Joe

    --
    Visit my homepage:  [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:46:57 -0400
    From: "Barnett, Tom L" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR Stars' Final Resting Places

    I found it interesting to view images of personalities from the era of OTR
    in their final resting places. I stumbled across website and found the
    graves of most radio star's that I could think to search by.

    I was curious to try Jim Jordan, Eddie Anderson, Fred Allen, Frank Sinatra,
    Phil Harris,  etc.

    Not that I dabble at all in the macabre mind you, but the Halloween season
    is upon us. It was just an interesting excursion one evening. The site has
    also placed together posthumous reunions with casts from old television
    shows.

    [removed]   (no affiliation, just happened onto it)

    Tom Barnett PMP

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 11:57:07 -0400
    From: "Philip Chavin" <philchav@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Live quiz shows

    I have some questions about "straightforward" quiz programs on [removed]
    network radio in the OTR era.  I mean programs on which
    contestants, often picked from the studio audience, tried to answer
    questions or solve puzzles presented to them by the show's MC, for
    prizes.  Examples: "Take It Or Leave It", "Quick As A Flash", "Dr. [removed] (The
    Mental Banker)".

    Did any such quiz shows do a live broadcast for the eastern
    [removed] plus a second live broadcast later that day for the west?

    *If* any did so:
    (a) How did the contestants and questions on the broadcast for the
    west compare with those of that day's earlier broadcast for the
    east?

    (b) Which programs did this and when?

    (c) Are any recordings available of such a show's east and west
    live broadcasts for the same date?

       Thanks.
    -- Phil C.

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:34:14 -0400
    From: Art Chimes <achimes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hi Brown in Tuesday's NY Times

    Radio Pioneer Clings to Imagination
    By JOSEPH BERGER

    Radio drama died about 50 years ago, and wistful obituaries consigned
    the art form to the thrilling days of yesteryear. Himan Brown, though,
    refused to go to the funeral.

    For the full story, click here ([removed] requires free registration):
    [removed]

    --
    Art Chimes, News Editor
    [removed] (VOA/XC)
    Voice of America

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 13:09:57 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-8 births/deaths

    October 8th births

    10-08-1918 - Ron Randell - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-08-1919 - Gabriel Dell - Barbados, British West Indies - d. 7-3-1988
    actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"

    01-09-1916 - Fernando Lamas - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 10-8-1982
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    01-26-1913 - William Prince - Nichols, NY - d. 10-8-1996
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"; "Somerset Maugham
    Theatre"
    02-04-1895 - Nigel Bruce - Ensenada, Mexico - d. 10-8-1953
    actor: Doctor John H. Watson "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
    05-01-1942 - Joan Hackett - NYC - d. 10-8-1983
    actress: "CBS Mystery Theatre"
    07-23-1908 - Karl Swenson - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-8-1978
    actor: Lorenzo Jones "Lorenzo Jones"; Lord Henry Brinthrope "Our Gal Sunday"
    08-02-1900 - Helen Morgan - Danville, IL - d. 10-8-1941
    hostess, singer: "Helen Morgan, Songs"; "Broadway Melodies"; "Fred Allen Show"
    08-30-1887 - Eduardo Ciannelli - Island of Ischia, Italy - d. 10-8-1969
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio Theatre"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:17:37 -0400
    From: "[removed]" <ddunfee@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR and Elliot Roosevelt mysteries

    A few months ago I came across the mysteries Elliot Roosevelt wrote where
    his mother is the main character.  This series is in the Agatha Christie
    school of "whodoneits".  So what has this to do with otr?  The time period
    is the 30's and 40's during her time in the white house, where many of the
    murders happen, which overlaps the prime time of radio.  While the main
    theme of the book is the solution of the crime there are sub plots
    involving people and events familiar to radio listeners of that era.  It is
    these interactions with the people and events that make these books worth
    reading, the mystery is but the structure in which these interactions
    occur.

    Not only are there famous political and crime people but also famous
    radio and movie stars who are often woven into the plot.  During the war
    years this might involve Jack Benny or Bob Hope or some other stars coming
    to Washington and the white house for some promotional event or another.
    There are also mention of radio shows and movies of the period.

    But perhaps most appealing to an potential otr audience is the charming
    innocence of the era which is captured well, the same kind of atmosphere
    into which we can escape for a time when we listen to the old shows.
    While the books are somewhat redundant in the structure of the mystery and
    it's solution, the above kind of timely interactions with people and events
    set in a well capture feeling for the time makes it worth the read.  The
    author knows of what he writes as he was an adult during the period.  He
    explores some of the "inside" story of the Roosevelt marriage and the role
    his mother played in the politics of the times.

                                   xv
                                    ic|xc

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:18:53 -0400
    From: "Ken Lanza" <klanza@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Apple Ipod
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    Does anyone on this list have any experience
    with the Apple [removed] version 10Gig, 20 Gig
    30 Gig, 40 [removed]
    good or bad, I'd like to know.
    regards,
    Ken Lanza

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