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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 106


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 OTR NEW YORK
	 Verification of Morgan death date
	 Henry Morgan's obit.
	 Suspense
	 Re: Hitchhiker
	 Suspense fragment - "The Hitchhiker"
	 To Ranger/Striker Fans
	 Arthur Godfrey's [removed] Archery
	 Re: RESEND OTR V96 Issue 101

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:21:52 -0800
From: vim@[removed] (Christopher Anderson )
To: OTR@[removed]
Subject: OTR NEW YORK
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Our local purveyor of OTR provided this address on his show this past 
weekend.  Is there a news group for Old Time Radio.  If not, how are 
interested parties communicating??

Chris Anderson

Morristown NJ

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:42:09 -0500
From: MVHaas@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Verification of Morgan death date
Message-ID: <960320203949_251520481@[removed]>

   After I posted the note on Henry Morgan's death date, I read Digest V96,
#105 with Max Schmid's post on the same subject, but with differing dates and
age. 
   I wasn't sure who was right, so I checked my "Celebrity Obit" file for
1994 (yeah, I know, *normal* people don't collect [removed]) and found a
clip from the Chicago Tribune from 5-20-94 which gives the same facts as the
Internet Movie Database.  Max was right about Morgan dying from lung cancer,
though. 

best -- Merlin Haas

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 07:43:49 -0500 (EST)
From: rjones@[removed]
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Henry Morgan's obit.
Message-Id: <[removed]@mail>

[removed] asked if Henry Morgan is alive. No. An obit in my paper 
(Baltimore SUN) said he died on May 19, 1994 of lung cancer at his home 
in New Yor--where in NY was not indicated. The obit said he is survived 
by his wife,"the former Karen Sorensen, whom he married in 1978, and a 
son by another woman: Steve Robinson of Los Angeles." Most of you 
probably know that he wrote the intro to the revised Buxton-Owen "Big 
Broadcast" in 1972, a very informative piece about 1930s and 1940s radio.

                                         Bob Jones

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 00:08:49 -0600 (CST)
From: "Craig A. Ryan" <cryan@[removed]>
To: otr-request@[removed]
Subject: Suspense
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

The Suspense show in question is "The Hitchhiker", with Orson Welles, from
September 2, 1942, and is one of the best-known Suspense shows.
Craig

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:34:03 +0000
From: John Mayer <johnmayer@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
CC: John@[removed]
Subject: Re: Hitchhiker
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

The Suspense espisode you refer to was "The Hitchhiker" with Orson 
Welles, one of the most frequently reproduced shows of that series 
(along with "Sorry, Wrong Number").  You stand a pretty good 
chance of finding it at any Waldenbooks or B. Dalton's.

John Mayer

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 23:40:55 -0500
From: stevecap@[removed] (Steven Capsuto)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Suspense fragment - "The Hitchhiker"
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>I have a fragment of a suspense episode that I can't identify.  It involves
>a man driving from New York to California and along the way keeps seeing the
>same hitchhiker w/ spots of rain on him.  I know its a fairly famous
>episode, any info would be appreciated.  Thank you.

You'll get a zillion replies on this one!  It's "The Hitchhiker" by Lucille
Fletcher (1942, w/Orson Welles).  The story was previously done on radio by
the Mercury Theater and later done on TV on THE TWILIGHT ZONE.  Lucille
Fletcher, best known for "Sorry, Wrong Number," wrote many other Suspense
pieces - including a nifty piece called "The Thing in the Window."
___
Steven Capsuto, Philadelphia
stevecap@[removed]
WEB page: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 23:50:56 -0500
From: FranStrike@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
cc: FSHillman@[removed]
Subject: To Ranger/Striker Fans
Message-ID: <960320234813_357440386@[removed]>

Hi

I've received a number of interesting queries from many of the nice folks who
read this fine digest about a book I [removed] "His Typewriter Grew [removed]"
 It's a self-published work about my dad, his creation of the Lone Ranger and
documents the radio years of the character with many interesting (and
relatively unknown) anecdotes of the character.

 I wrote/published the book in 1983 (commemorating the Ranger's 50th
anniversary) and ran out of stock early last year.  On the up side however, I
do hope to republish it just as soon as I can find the time to include some
additional and interesting information. 

As a matter of fact, the same thing happened to the novel I completed and
published in 1994 (One More River) and ran out of in 1995.  It was the last
fiction that my dad ever started. And although not a Ranger story, it was I
believe the best thing he ever [removed] an adult western novel!
 Unfortunately he passed away before finishing it.  After [removed] no make
that [removed] of promising myself to complete his final tale, I was
finally able to do so.  I hope to have more copies of it available later this
year and will certainly keep you all aware of availability dates/prices. 

Or, if any of you would like direct notification of availability you are
welcome to send me an e-mail directly at "FranStrike@[removed]"  Note: on the
address, that there is no "r" on the end of "FranStrike"

And thankyou all, so very much, for the continuing interest.

Fran Striker, Jr.

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 22:40:10 -0800
From: paul white <pwhite@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Arthur Godfrey's [removed] Archery
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I'm new at this posting so i hope this gets to the right [removed] I am 
interested in learning more about Arthur Godfrey's show he had in the 
1940's-1950's and more in particlar Mr. [removed]((Ernest Grewe)) I'm 
related to Ernest Grewe and would love to learn more about him and what 
pole he played in showing off his archery [removed]

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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:51:49 GMT
From: rwright@[removed] (Richard Wright)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Re: RESEND OTR V96 Issue 101
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

On Wed, 20 Mar 1996 21:18:10 -0600 (CST), you wrote:


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>
>Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 18:03:46 -0500 (EST)
>From: David Van Nostrand <davetv5@[removed]>
>To: otr@[removed]
>Subject: Radio Shows on CD
>Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
>
>Hi there
>
>I currently own a lot of radio shows on CD, mainly The Shadow, and the
>Smithonian Collection, a collection from Adventures in Cassettes.  I only
>have one thing to say, I WANT [removed] Ok, three words.  Why dont many of the
>companies that deal in radio shows want to put them on CD.  I know the sound
>quality does not measure up to the CD's ability, but the archive ability of
>them makes them ideal. 

I agree that more OTR should be on CD. I have also been looking for
CDs. You probably already know about Adventures in Cassettes which
does offer a few CDs. I think you can email for their catalog at	
AIC4Radio@[removed] I picked up their War of the Worlds CD at Waldens
Bookstore for about $[removed] vice the $[removed] they sell it for in the
catalog. I have many hours of OTR on cassettes and open reel tapes
but much prefer the CD format. Let me know if anybody finds other
sources of CD OTR. 

Do you have the Real Audio [removed] software to pull OTR radio programs
from various Internet sites?

>dave
>
>davetv5@[removed]


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>Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 13:46:30 EST
>From: DFEQ02A@[removed] (MR JOSEPH ANDOLINA JR)
>To: OTR@[removed]
>Subject: YUSA/Real Audio 1 -vs- 2
>Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
>
>I recently had gotten access to YUSA with Real Audio 1,  and enjoyed 
>listening even though the quality was much to be desired.  Well,  it 
>was only a few days of enjoyment for me,  because it looks like 
>they've graduated to Real Audio 2 which now blocks me out of it,  I 
>don't have a 28000 modem!!!! just a [removed]
>
>Well so much ofor that!
>
>Can anyone give me feed back on Real Audio 2,  and how much better it 
>is,  and is it worth the upgrade?

I upgraded to RA2. For music the improvement over RA1 is very
impressive. PC Magazine (3/26/96) reviewed audio software for the
Internet. 

On a scale of 0 to [removed] for music, RA got a [removed] at [removed] and [removed] at [removed]

On a scale of 0 to [removed] for speech RA got a [removed] at [removed] and [removed] at [removed]

The review stated "The technology is [removed] player is
attractive and highly functional. The RealAudio codec shines in music
applications, at higher-bandwidth modem connections. Its speech
quality and lower-bandwidth music are somewhat disappointing, an area
that could use some improvement." "RealAudio fared poorly on our
speech tests, exhibiting slurring and a slight echo. But it won the
high-bandwidth music tests outright>" 

The best for speech at [removed], ToolVox and True Speech Internet both got
a [removed]

The True Speech encoder is included in Windows95 and the player is
downloadable from [removed]

For music at [removed], Intenet Wave got [removed]


>Also,  anyone out there know whether there are any other Internet 
>radio stations that might broadcast old time radio,  asside from KUSF 
>with Shoestring Theater  and the Austrailian Radio site with their 
>recent addition?
>
>Joe
>
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>
>---- 
>End of [removed] Digest V96 Issue #101
>

-------------
Richard
aka rwright@[removed]

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