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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 66
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  New York Daily News Obit for Hal Sto  [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
  unsettled minds want to know          [ ddunfee@[removed] ]
  Readers digest on radio               [ ddunfee@[removed] ]
  Frank Martin one more time            [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  WMAQ Chicago                          [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
  More About Hal                        [ Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@sbcgl ]
  My thoughts on Hal [removed]           [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 25 Feb to  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Hal Stone                             [ crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow) ]
  38 streets and half of Canton         [ <verotas@[removed]; ]
  Another Hal Stone remembrance         [ "origami" <origami@[removed]; ]
  Toys?                                 [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@j ]
  Old radios and Shakespeare            [ <[removed]@[removed]; ]
  Sloan Linament hour                   [ soonersam@[removed] (Sam Bliss) ]
  radio adventure serial                [ "mhingson" <mhingson@[removed]; ]
  Episodes in the later life of Stella  [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Benny on Welk                         [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Re: Hal                               [ "Paul Adomites" <padomites@ccyberne ]

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:10:34 -0500
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  My thoughts on Hal [removed]

Folks;

   I've posted a long entry on the Nostalgic Rumblings blog, detailing my
thoughts about my friend Hal Stone. It's at:

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For AOL: <a href="[removed]">My thoughts about Hal
[removed];/a>

   There are some audio and video files there, a bunch of photos, as well as
my musings about the man who played Jughead. I know there are some of you who
can't directly access the Net, so I'm going to repeat my very favorite Hal
Stone story here - those of you planning on visiting the Blog might want to
skip over this now and click the link (it's funnier with the pics and stuff).

- ---
Ok, let me take a break here from any sense of chronology and tell you my
favorite Hal Stone [removed] one where he is a bad influence on my
daughter. A few years ago, Hal and Dorothy were on a cross-country drive, and
while in the neighborhood spent a night in York. They came over to the house,
and we went out for a leisurely dinner at Red Lobster. It was a weeknight, so
we gave our name to the hostess, and headed off to the bar; Hal swept Katie
(who's eight now, so she [removed] or six?) off her feet and onto a
barstool, called the bartender over and ordered her first Shirley Temple,
extra cherry. The two of them were inseparable most of the [removed] Hal
went out for a quick smoke after dinner, Katie went along. And when Annie
went to get her, so she wouldn't be a bother to Hal, Hal told Annie to go
back inside, the two of them were just fine, thank-you-very-much. "Thick as
thieves" would not be an exaggeration for the two of 'em whenever they were
together.

Flash-forward a few months; we had spent the day doing Christmas shopping as
well as shopping for clothing, and we were all pretty tired and hungry. When
we passed the Red Lobster, I figured Annie owed me an "Ultimate Fondue" (I
love that darned bread-bowl appetizer filled with cheese and seafood), so in
we went. It was again a weeknight, so I gave our name to the hostess, and as
I turned away, my sweet little daughter, in her loudest little-girl voice,
proclaimed, "DADDY, I NEED A DRINK!" and headed straight to the bar,
clambered up on a barstool, and sat pretty-as-you-please waiting for the
barkeep to take her order.

Every head in the waiting area whipped around to her, and then to the
irresponsible father who would allow such a thing to [removed] who know
me will not be surprised that I dissolved into uncontrollable laughter. And
you can bet when we got home I sent Hal an email describing the event,
blaming him for turning my sweet, innocent child into a barfly. I only hope
he laughed so hard at the situation he wet [removed] would have served him
right!
- ---

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:13:43 -0500
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  New York Daily News Obit for Hal Stone

David Hinckley of the New York Daily News mentions the passing of our man
Hal Stone in today's edition.

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Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:17:17 -0500
From: ddunfee@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  unsettled minds want to know

I find it interesting when a thread starts about some unresolved bit of
info about a radio show plot.  The most recent and most frequent is the
lone ranger name example.  Others concern how a continuing plot theme ends
or not when a series ended abruptly without resolution.  Some concern some
bit of logical conflict about what some character does or says at one time
and conflicts with the same thing at another time period or some procedural
logic such as what dId superman do with his street clothing when in
superman garb.

It seems to me the writers of a show never had in mind to tie all the loose
ends up logically. Was there someone who watched for such details so as not
to unduly rouse the listeners who wanted their virtual aural universe to
make sense? That the mind demands such seems clear as after all these years
threads continue to pop up about such matters.

                               XB
                                IC|XC

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:16:58 -0500
From: ddunfee@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Readers digest on radio

On a radio spirits broadcast of 'crime photographer' the show ended with a
reminder to stay tuned for the 'readers digest' show.  What was this, did
they reenact articles from the print version or was it radio only material?

                               XB
                                IC|XC

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:17:39 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Frank Martin one more time

Since the subject of Frank Martin has persisted on the digest, allow me to
clear up a matter that raised his name early in the week when a poster
observed:

Anyone know anything about him? Yes i have
purchased
Jim Cox's latest book and was disappointed not to see a listing for him.

I pointed out that I believed the fellow in question was Jeff Frank Martin
Jr., included in the new book "Radio Speakers" ([removed]) on
page 180.  He is one of about 600 major and minor personalities whose mini
biographies are published there.

The sender replied to me off-list that he had simply overlooked it.  Since
Ken Greenwald and possibly others have confirmed it via additional posts, I
felt the record should be clarified to all.

Jim Cox

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:17:58 -0500
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  WMAQ  Chicago

Russ Butler wrote about Clear channel radio and about WMAQ Chicago and the
following:
"Jack Eigen,His nightly routine on his live broadcast from the Chez Paree
nightclub  lounge in Chicago would include his boast that HE is "heard
in 38 States and Canada" listening at night to WMAQ 670AM, another 50Kw
clear channel station."

In about 1956 my wife and I were out with another couple we had a great
dinner and went to a few night spots in Chicago, and around mid night we
ended up at the Chez Paree for our first and only time.
We were in the Lounge in hope to see Jack Eigen because I was fan of his show.
My wife wanted to be interviewed, on the air, to tell about  a big Luncheon
and Fashion how she the Chairperson that was being held at the Blackstone
Hotel. A big name fashion designer,Oleg Cassini, was bring his Collection and
models for the fashion show.

Well Jack had a night off and his substitute did interveiw my wife, she was a
nervous wreck but did good job. The fashion show was a success and  raised a
lot of money for a school for retarded girls.

I hope that all the OTR's go to the web site that Russ Butler refer to and
you all read about WMAQ It a great history of radio and of the actors etc.
[removed]
Rich Samuel is a reporter on The Chicago Public TV WTTW (Window To The World)
"Chicago Tonight"
It a Monday through Friday Magazine type program.
Frank McGurn

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:18:21 -0500
From: Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  More About Hal
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Many people do not know this about Hal Stone.  He not only had an impressive
collection of Kachina dolls, right out of the Hopi Indian culture, but he was
an expert on the subject and could speak authoritatively about them
tirelessly.  He obviously had done quite a bit of scholarly research on them.

  I do not know why Hal retired to Sedona, AZ, but along with its many other
attributes as a beautiful town, it is a place where painters display their
art in the many art shops in town. Hal Stone had done many, many beautiful
paintings, and I am sure several of them were displayed and purchased in
Sedona.  What a multi-talented man!

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:18:30 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 25 Feb to 3 March

 From Those Were The Days --

2/27

1922 - Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convened the first National
Radio Conference in Washington, DC. There, industry regulations were
widely discussed.

3/1

1932 - Radio's greatest effort of on-the-spot news coverage began as
NBC and CBS rushed to Hopewell, NJ to cover the kidnaping of the Charles
and Anne Lindbergh baby.

1941 -  Commercial FM broadcasting began in the [removed] when station W47NV
in Nashville, TN started operations on this day.

1941 - Duffy's Tavern debuted on CBS.

3/2

1945 - Mystery fans remember this day when they gathered around the
radio to
listen to the Mutual Broadcasting System as Superman encountered Batman and
Robin for the first time.

1952 - Whispering Streets debuted on ABC, remaining on the air until 1960.

Joe

--
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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:21:00 -0500
From: crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow)
To: [removed]@[removed] (Old Time Radio Digest)
Subject:  Hal Stone

I met Hal Stone only once -- at the REPS Convention last summer.  I have his
book and communicated with him on the Digest but I had never watched him in
action.

What impressed me  most was his genial spontaneity.  His humor was kind and
he dispensed it generously and unexpectedly.

One of those moments occurred when he directed a recreation with a
particularly tall man.  He quickly found  a ladder and stood on it to go face
to face with his actor.

Like all of us, I'll miss him.  The many tributes to him in this forum is the
real measure of the man.

Dennis Crow

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:22:35 -0500
From: <verotas@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  38 streets and half of Canton

Regarding  the statement that "Clear Channel" stations  can be heard in 38
states and Half of [removed] has been a joke in local  broadcasting
circles over the years that
WERE-AM 1300 Cleveland's signal was so weak that
it could be heard On '38 streets and half of Canton"..I happen to live in
the part of Canton you can't hear [removed]   Tim Lones    Canton, Ohio

Tom Lones posted the item following my comments below - which gave me a big
laugh.  Some years back I did a weekend program "Sounds of Yesteryear", named
after our Yesteryear Museum in New Jersey, utilizing my large collection of
records going back to and past the Big Band era.

 We were heard consecutively over a couple of northern Jersey AM stations.
The last one was WXMC (the Crossroads of Morris County), located in
Parsippany Township.  This was the largest municipality  in Morris County,
but still it was just one township.  I doubt we could be hard on any 38
streets, and definitely only half of Parsippany!  But it was fun and the
phones rang off the wall every time I asked one of my "Nostalgia Questions".
Something to do with the fact that we gave away very good LPs to the first
listener with the correct answer?  Ah, those were the [removed]        Lee
Munsick

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:08:31 -0500
From: "origami" <origami@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Another Hal Stone remembrance

What more can be added to testify to the kind of warm,
tolerant, talented person that Hal Stone was?  Maybe I can
add just an item or two.

First of all, in the 2005 REPS convention when I was
unloading the car in front of the hotel, my wife needed help
getting up the stairs.  In a flash, Hal was there assisting
her.  And in that convention and the one of 2006, I saw the
same pattern repeated several times-- Hal aiding someone who
needed it.

The following pictures might be of use to someone:

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[removed]

And to further illustrate the patience of the man, in 2005,
fresh after reading his "Reelax Archie" book and noting the
"Nuts to You" pose pictured as a young actor, I (brashly)
asked him to repeat it for me.  Graciously, he did:

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(Apologies for the shadows-- and my not having flash-fill
on)

John Warmington

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:08:48 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Toys?

I realize a discussion of radio premiums is far from the center of
interest in OTR, but it certainly has a place.  I've noticed in various
auctions on eBay and elsewhere, a significant percentage of radio
premiums are listed as toys.  But are they?

Some are obviously just that: a Jack Armstrong Shooting Propeller Plane
Gun clearly is, as are the Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters
Glow-In-The-Dark Spurs (well, the plastic rowels glowed, anyway).  But
some of the premiums were rather utilitarian.  Both the Radio Orphan
Annie Sun Watch and the Frank Buck Explorer's Sun Watch (also offered on
the Jack Armstrong program) were portable and adjustable sun dials that
would give accurate civil time if used.  Both Radio Orphan Annie and
Captain Midnight [Ovaltine] Shake-Up Mugs delivered a drink, as promised,
and as well as any cocktail shaker.  Many of the rings were novelties,
but the Tom Mix Compass-Magnifier premiums could be used to good effect
when camping out.  Compared to the [removed] Army's M-94 or M-209 cipher
units, the "decoders" of the various shows were simplistic, but they
could deliver enciphered messages as well as,or with greater security
than, say, an Official Cipher Disk, sold at office equipment shops as a
means of sending secret messages.  Some of the World War II premiums,
including both the MJC-10 Plane Spotter and the blackout light units were
as effective as one could ask for.

In short, a percentage of the radio premiums listed as toys were anything
but.  Some of the premium manufacturers were extraordinarily creative.

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:09:05 -0500
From: <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Old radios and Shakespeare

Hi.

This post has a couple of questions related to OTR.

I have two old RCA Radios that I am trying to find some infomation about in
hopes of repairing at least one of them.

They are:

RCA Victor  Model QB5
Made in US
Battery powered -- "Farm Radio"
Input on back for a Phonograph

Purchased by great uncle in Boston just before the war or in the early part
of war.

RCA Victor Model 523
Made in Canada
During or after 1949
Serial Number 777
input on back similar to above model
plug attached -- non-battery

Purchased by Grandfather and used until mid. 60's

I hope to be able to repair this radio, if I can get the parts or find some
one who can repair it.

I would also like to know what shows featured productions of Shakespeare and
what are available.

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:02:16 -0500
From: soonersam@[removed] (Sam Bliss)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Sloan Linament hour

Hi! Does anyone know if any shows still exist from the 'Sloan Linament
Hour', a crime drama from the 30's based on the experiences of Sing Sing
Prison warden Lewis Lawes?
An information about the show would be much appreciated.  Thanks.

Sam Bliss

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:58:32 -0500
From: "mhingson" <mhingson@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  radio adventure serial
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All,

My wife and I have loved such kids' adventures such as The Magic Island, and
Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police.  Chandu The Magician also
has been a favorite.  I am looking for suggestions for other such adventure
serials.  Thanks for any ideas.

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:58:51 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Episodes in the later life of Stella Dallas

After several futile attempts, I've been unable to locate a tape or two of
Stella Dallas that means a great deal to me.  This is one or more episodes
from the latter days of the serial, between Dec. 21-Dec. 30, 1955.  Should
anyone on the list have a copy of one or more installments from this era,
kindly get in touch with me at once.  Thanks more than I can say.

Jim Cox
otrbuff@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:26:40 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Benny on Welk

Jack Benny turned up as special guest on a rerun of The Lawrence Welk Show
tonight and got off some good ones.

He said that Welk had appeared not long before on his show "and I didn't pay
him anything."  Benny allowed, "We had a reciprocal arrangement where I was
to come on his show for nothing.  Which proves one thing:  Lawrence Welk is
as cheap as I am."

He told about their respective humble beginnings in North Dakota and
Illinois.  "Lawrence's dad was a farmer while mine ran a clothing store,"
Benny explained.  "Our beginnings were similar.  Lawrence's father sold a
cow in order for him to have an accordion to start his musical career.  My
father sold a suit and shirt in order for me to have my first violin.  The
difference was, he sold them to me!"

There was a number of other good-natured jibes about himself (a Benny
trademark) before he took the violin and played "Love in Bloom" accompanied
by the Welk entourage.  It was a high few moments of that show and returned
thoughts of two great entertainers of yesteryear.

Jim Cox

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:05:58 -0500
From: "Paul Adomites" <padomites@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Hal

In a world where it seems anyone involved with "show biz" is an egomaniac or
an a**hole, those of us who spent two minutes or more with Hal Stone
appreciated how talent and gentlemanliness (what a coinage) could work
together. At the last convention, I saw Hal in the lobby and said, "I want
to do an OTR show." (About as dumb a thing as anyone could say.) And Hal
leaped up and said, "Let me introduce you to the people who are doing it."
Which is exactly what he did. What a  guy. He didn't know me from Adam.

Paul Adomites

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