Subject: [removed] Digest V2011 #130
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Date: 8/16/2011 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 130
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      8-14 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Repsonse to Derek                     [ kittersmom@[removed] ]
      8-15 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      OTR Type Broadcasts Today?            [ skallisjr@[removed] ]
      Real or Knockoff?                     [ skallisjr@[removed] ]
      8-16 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:02:04 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-14 births/deaths

    August 14th births

    08-14-1863 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer - Lawrence, MA - d. 8-21-1940
    author: "Favorite Story"
    08-14-1867 - John Galsworthy - Kingston Hill, Surrey, England - d.
    1-31-1933
    author Several of his works adapted for radio
    08-14-1870 - Harry Lauder - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 2-26-1950
    singer: "Sir Harry Lauder"; "The Fourth Christmas"
    08-14-1876 - John Todd (Fred McCarthy) - Crossingville, PA - d.
    7-14-1957
    actor: Tonto "The Lone Ranger"; Mr. Reid "The Green Hornet"
    08-14-1879 - Edna Fisher - NB - d. 4-23-1978
    actor: "The Al Pearce Show"
    08-14-1889 - Robert Woolsey - Oakland, CA - d. 10-31-1938
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-14-1892 - Paul Wing - Tacoma, WA - d. 5-29-1957
    producer: "Story Man for Children"
    08-14-1893 - Carl Benton Reid - Lansing, MI - d. 3-16-1973
    actor: Roger Allen "Big Sister"
    08-14-1897 - Lal Chand Mehra - Amritsar, India - d. 10-21-1980
    actor: "I Love A Mystery"; "I Love Adventure"
    08-14-1902 - Harriet Allyn - d. 9-18-1998
    actor: Aggie Horn "In the Case of Aggie Horn"
    08-14-1903 - Millard Mitchell - Havana, Cuba - d. 10-13-1953
    actor: Casey "Mighty Casey"
    08-14-1909 - Ed Herlihy - Dorchester, MA - d. 1-30-1999
    announcer: "Advs. of the Thin Man"; "Just Plain Bill"; "Vic and Sade"
    08-14-1909 - Frank Papp - d. 5-27-1996
    director: "The Bartons"; "Words at War"; "Right to Happiness";
    "Eternal Light"
    08-14-1911 - Ethel Payne - Chicago, IL - d. 5-28-1991
    commentator: "Spectrum"; "Matters of Opinion"
    08-14-1911 - Ken Nordine - Chicago, IL - d. 9-15-1993
    announcer: "Armstrong of the SBI"; "The Breakfast Club"
    08-14-1913 - Ferrucio Tagliavini - Reggio Emilia, Italy - d. 1-28-1995
    lyric tenor: "Encores from the Bell Telephone Hour"
    08-14-1914 - Alyce King - Payson, UT - d. 8-21-1996
    singer: (The King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"; "Al
    Pearce and His Gang"
    08-14-1914 - Andrea Leeds - Butte, MT - d. 5-21-1984
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    08-14-1914 - Bill Downs - Kansas City, MO - d. 5-3-1978
    newscaster: CBS Moscow 1942
    08-14-1917 - Marty Glickman - NYC - d. 1-3-2001
    sprorts broadcaster: "Saturday Night Bandwagon"; "Play Ball"; "Box
    Score Review"
    08-14-1921 - Cobina Wright, Jr. - NYC
    actor: "Your Blind Date"
    08-14-1926 - Alice Ghostly - Eve, MO - d. 9-21-2007
    actor: "Theatre Five"

    August 14th deaths

    01-07-1930 - Douglas Kiker - Griffin, KS - d. 8-14-1991
    nbc newsman: "Meet the Press"
    01-11-1910 - Gene Baker - Portland, OR - d. 8-14-1981
    announcer: "Lum and Abner"; "Queen for a Day"
    02-15-1899 - Gale Sondergaard - Litchfield, MN - d. 8-14-1985
    actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
    03-04-1888 - David Frederick Smith - Clarksburg, IN - d. 8-14-1976
    early radio broadcaster: Creator of "March of Time"
    03-18-1911 - Deane Kincaide - Houston, TX - d. 8-14-1992
    saxophonist: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    04-29-1863 - William Randolph Hearst - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-14-1951
    publisher: Owner of several radio stations
    05-11-1922 - Eve Boswell - Budapest, Hungary - d. 8-14-1998
    singer: "The Eve Bosewell Show"
    06-22-1909 - Milton Kaye - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-14-2006
    pianist/arranger: "Roger Kilgore, Public Defender"; "Under Arrest"
    06-25-1895 - Donald Gallagher - Quincy, IL - d. 8-14-1961
    actor: P. Wallace Carver "Houseboat Hannah"; Humble Dickinson "Joan
    and Kermit"
    07-07-1917 - Doris Dudley - NYC - d. 8-14-1985
    actor: Peggy Meek "Meet Mr. Meek"
    07-16-1920 - Edwin Cooper - d. 8-14-1961
    announcer, actor: "The Milt Herth Trio"; "RFD America"
    07-23-1918 - Pee Wee Reese - Ekron, KY - d. 8-14-1999
    baseball great: "Play Ball"; "Box Score Review"; "Feature Project:
    This Game of Baseball"
    07-27-1914 - Ira Avery - Albany, NY - d. 8-14-1984
    director: "We Came This Way"; "Eternal Light"
    08-24-1900 - Ralph Kirbery - Paterson, NJ - d. 8-14-1993
    singer: (The Dream Singer) "Mohawk Treasure Chest"; "Musical Moments
    Revue"
    08-30-1925 - Jack Bivans - Evanston, IL - d. 8-14-2009
    actor: Chuck Ramsey "Captain Midnight"
    09-13-1894 - J. B. Priestley - Bradford, Yorkshire, England - d.
    8-14-1984
    dramatist: "London After Dark"; "Studio One"; "NBC University Theatre"
    09-16-1903 - Joe Venuti - Lecco, Italy - d. 8-14-1978
    jazz violinist: "Friendly Five Footnotes";"Paul Whiteman Show";
    "Jubilee"
    09-26-1914 - Dora McCann - d. 8-14-1975
    host: "McCann Pure Food Hour"
    11-29-1915 - J. G. Weightman - Callerton, Englans - d. 8-14-2004
    translator and announcer in French for the BBC
    12-01-1920 - Mary Wells - Omaha, NE - d. 8-14-2000
    actor: "John Steele, Adventurer"
    12-21-1913 - Louise King - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 8-14-1997
    singer (The King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"; "Al
    Pearce and His Gang"
    12-27-1906 - Oscar Levant - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-14-1972
    panelist, pianist: "Information, Please"; "Kraft Music Hall"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:03:58 -0400
    From: kittersmom@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Repsonse to Derek
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
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    Subject:  "Luxify" + other OTR terms

    Derek Tague wrote:

>     Steve knew immediately what I meant but for the benefit of the novice OTR
>     fan, "luxify"
>     However, I refuse to believe that in the foregoing 45+ years of the
>     hobby that nobody else has ever deigned to use this term before.

    How about it's a "radio adaptation" seems there was already a term for this.

>     I used to use the word "reec" (homophonous with the word "reek") as a
>     diminutive for "re-creation" but that
>     term just never caught on -- maybe this terminology just "reeked.

    You may be correct.  And, perhaps the word re-creation was pretty good in
    itself.

>     Is so-and-so 'viable and flyable?'" meaning is such celebrity
>     mentally cogent and healthy enough for a cross-country air trip.

    This is rather childish.  How about would they be a good guest?

>     We all know that the catch-phrase "coming on like Gangbusters" grew out of
>     OTR but I'm looking for terms that originated in the post-1962 hobby.

    The Gangbusters phrase works because it is a short way of describing the
    wonderful open that we know and love,
    Your other "terms" are not shorter nor are they needed.  Perhaps that is why
    they are not in common use.

    To coin a phrase (especially if not relevant or pithy) is perhaps wasted
    energy.

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    Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:04:06 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-15 births/deaths

    August 15th births

    08-15-1879 - Ethel Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-18-1959
    actor: Hattie Thompson "Miss Hattie"
    08-15-1885 - Edna Ferber - Kalamazoo, MI - d. 4-16-1968
    author: "Cavalcade of America"; "Cables from Lisbon"; "Campbell
    Playhouse"
    08-15-1888 - Albert Spalding - Chicago, IL - d. 5-26-1952
    violinist: "Forecast"; "Pause That Refreshes . . . On the Air"
    08-15-1894 - Harry Akst - NYC - d. 3-31-1963
    writer: "The Barry Gray Show"
    08-15-1897 - Aben Kandel - d. 1-28-1993
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-15-1897 - Charles Tobias - NYC - d. 7-7-1970
    songwriter: (Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree) "Music for Millions";
    "Great Moments to Music"
    08-15-1898 - Monroe Upton - d. 8-6-1990
    announcer, writer, comedian: KFRC San Francisco
    08-15-1901 - Ned Washington - Scranton, PA - d. 12-20-1976
    songwriter: "Dick Aurandt Show"
    08-15-1901 - Sam Perrin - d. 1-8-1998
    writer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Phil Baker Show"; "Tommy Riggs and
    Betty Lou"
    08-15-1903 - Burke Bivens - Kirbyville, TX - d. 11-6-1967
    saxophonist: Wayne King Orchestra
    08-15-1903 - Jerry Cady - d. 11-7-1948
    writer: "Major Hoople"
    08-15-1907 - Margaret Brayton - d. 5-29-1992
    actor: "Burns and Allen"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-15-1909 - Hugo Winterhalter - d. 9-17-1973
    pop-music conductor, arranger: "Johnny Desmond Program"; "Musical
    Showcase"
    08-15-1910 - Johnny Roventini - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-30-1998
    commercial announcer: (Call for Phil-lip Mor-ress) "Ferde Grofe Show";
    "Johnny Presents"
    08-15-1910 - Signe Hasso - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 6-7-2002
    actor: "Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Hollywood Star Time"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    08-15-1912 - Robert Lewis Shayon - NYC - d. 6-28-2008
    along with Edward R. Murrow created "You Are There"
    08-15-1912 - Wendy Hiller - Bramhall, Cheshire, England - d. 5-14-2003
    actor: Queen Vic "Original Dramatic Work"
    08-15-1914 - Eve Alwyn - Christ Church, New Zealand - d. 11-16-2005
    actor: WEAT West Palm Beacg, Florida
    08-15-1916 - Van Patrick - d. 9-29-1974
    detroit lions play-by-play: "Jean Shepard Show"
    08-15-1918 - David Baskerville - Freehold, NJ - d. 12-27-1986
    nbc staff composer and conductor: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"
    08-15-1919 - Huntz Hall - NYC - d. 1-30-1999
    comedian: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
    08-15-1921 - Bob Banner - Ennis, TX - d. 6-15-2011
    director: "John Brown's Body"
    08-15-1923 - Baby Rose Marie - Lower East Side, NYC
    singer: (Radio's first genuine child star) "Baby Rose Marie"
    08-15-1924 - Phyllis Schlafley - St. Louis, MO
    commentator: "America Wake Up"
    08-15-1924 - Robert Bolt - Sale, England - d. 2-20-1995
    writer: "The Last of the Wine"
    08-15-1925 - Bill Pinkney - Dalzell, SC - d. 7-4-2007
    singer: (Drifters) "Grand Ole Opry"; "Camel Rock and Roll Dance Party"
    08-15-1925 - Oscar Peterson - Montreal, Canada - d. 12-23-2007
    jazz pianist: "Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum"
    08-15-1925 - Rose Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 4-15-1998
    country singer: "Faron Young Show"; "Country Hoedown"
    08-15-1931 - Joe Feeney - Grand Island, NE - d. 4-16-2008
    irish tenor: Got start at station WOW in Omaha, Nebraska
    08-15-1933 - Bobby Helms - Bloomington, IN - d. 6-19-1997
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    08-15-1935 - Joey Jay - Middletown, CT
    baseball pitcher: "Tops in Sports"
    08-15-1944 - Linda Ellerbee - Bryan, TX
    disk jockey and newscaster for WVON Chicago

    August 15th deaths

    01-10-1917 - Jerry Wexler - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-15-2008
    record producer: "Sound Stage"
    01-10-1924 - Max Roach - New Land, NC - d. 8-15-2007
    jazz drummer: "Bands for Bonds"; "Jazz Alive"; "Newport Jazz Festival"
    03-04-1888 - Fred Smith - Clarksburg, IN - d. 8-15-1976
    announcer: (America's first Ambassador of the Radio) "Newsacting"
    03-26-1907 - Clarence Stroud - Kaufman, TX - d. 8-15-1973
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    04-04-1897 - Albert Bagdasarian - d. 8-15-1968
    newscaster: WNBZ Saranac Lake, New York
    04-04-1906 - John Cameron Swayze - Wichita, KS - d. 8-15-1995
    host. panelist: "Monitor"; "Who Said That?"
    05-03-1920 - Nina Bara - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 8-15-1990
    actor: Tonga "Space Patrol"
    05-26-1887 - Paul Lukas - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-15-1971
    actor: Albert Einstein "Quick and the Dead"
    05-30-1921 - Roy Neal - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-15-2003
    actor: "The Lost Continent"
    06-01-1909 - Ray Heatherton - Jersey City, NJ - d. 8-15-1997
    singer, host: "Old Gold Hour"; "Musical Cruise with Spearmint Crew"
    07-18-1906 - Clifford Odets - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-15-1963
    playwright: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Cresta Blanca Hollywood
    Players"
    07-24-1911 - Raymond Edward Johnson - Kenosha, WI - d. 8-15-2001
    actor: Raymond your host "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"; Don Winslow "Don
    Winslow of the Navy"
    07-28-1903 - Duane Thompson - Red Oaks, IA - d. 8-15-1970
    actor: Telephone Operator "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-26-1891 - Frayne Baker - d. 8-15-1968
    newscaster: KFYR Bismarck, North Dakota
    09-10-1920 - Bob "Shamrock" Shannon - West Allis, WI - d. 8-15-2000
    announcer, host: "Mayor of the Town"; "The Man Says Yes"
    09-21-1907 - Jack Mather - California - d. 8-15-1966
    actor: Cisco Kid "Cisco Kid"
    10-23-1904 - Ford Bond - Louisville, KY - d. 8-15-1962
    announcer: "Cities Service Concert"; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round";
    Highways in Melody"
    11-04-1879 - Will Rogers, Sr. - Oolagah,  Oklahoma Territory - d.
    8-15-1935
    humorist: (America's Greatest Humorist) "Gulf Headliners"
    11-28-1916 - Richard Tregaskis - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 8-15-1973
    author, war correspondent: (Guadalcanal Diary) "Lux Radio Theatre"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:17:54 -0400
    From: skallisjr@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR Type Broadcasts Today?

    Rick Keating's comment about a contemporary OTR-style adventure serial's
    potential for popularity among youngsters has merit.    One thing that
    radio drama has that other kinds of contemporary entertainment doesn't is
    the ability for any audience member to multitask.  My grandmother, an
    ardent fan of /Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons/, was always crocheting
    while she listened to the adventures of the  kindly old investigator and
    his associate, Mike Clancy.
    Many of the OTR adventure serials could be rebroadcast today and
    doubtless still catch the attention of today's youngsters (or adults, if
    it comes to that).  For that matter, many of the premiums could still be
    enjoyed by youngsters, who would think them Cool.  (I won't comment much
    on the reference to Captain Midnight Decoder Rings other than to say that
    no OTR show ever offered a Decoder Ring as a premium.) I presented a Sky
    King Spy-Detecto Writer premium to a friend in the UK who had been
    involved in police work, and **he** thought it was Cool
    The objection to older comedies, though, is valid.  A lot of the comments
    on the Fred Allen show related to then-current events.  Only the geezers
    like me would still get those; to contemporary listeners, most if not all
    of the allusions would be lost.
    A story worth relating.  My wife was never exposed to OTR.  We once had
    to go on a longish drive, and I took a cassette with /Pat Novak For Hire/
    recordings on it, so we could be entertained tooling along Route 1.  I
    put the cassette into the car's player, and he listened intently.  As it
    was playing, she remarked, "This is just like television."

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:21:51 -0400
    From: skallisjr@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Real or Knockoff?

    Martin Grams notes,

>     I took one look at it and voted no on the purchase.
>     Why? Because weeks prior at a
>     convention, someone had a presentation
>     about decoder badges and ring premiums
>     (my main interest was the Jack Armstrong
>     ring) and it was instructed on the big screen

    slide show how to tell the difference between

>     the real deal and a Knockoff.
>     That was worth its weight in gold.

    The whole radio-premium situation is kind of complex unless one has lived
    through the period and has a good memory;  I once visited a premium
    collector two showed me a Dick Tracy badge that was an obvious
    counterfeit to anyone familiar with premiums.
    However, there are some "premiums"  that have been manufactured not as
    counterfeits.  One fan obtained permission from both Skelly Oil and
    Ovaltine Captain Midnight   to make Captain Midnight Flight Patrol 1940
    Medal of Membership spinner coin.  The replica has a tiny "R" in the
    Skelly logo to differentiate  it from the original.  Another item is  a
    replica of the 1941 Captain Midnight Mystery Dial Code-O-Graph.  The
    replica was manufactured by Klutz, Inc., a dealer in children's items.
    The Code-O-Graph replica was manufactured overseas, taken from a
    photograph of an original, and it has no cipher-key setting windows on
    the back, as on the original. (Klutz knew practically nothing about the
    premium, just that it was a "secret decoder badge.")
    I have seen both of these items on sale as originals.  In both cases, the
    sellers thought that the items were originals. AFAIK, the Klutz replicas
    Code-O-Graphs were two for $[removed], where an original can sell; for around
    $[removed]
    A seller may have no idea of the value of a premium.  I saw an intact
    Aztec Sun God Ring (one of the rarest Captain Midnight ring premium item)
    listed on auction for $[removed]  It was bid up to something closer to its
    value, but the people selling it had no idea what they were offering.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:49:57 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-16 births/deaths

    August 16th births

    08-16-1862 - Amos Alonzo Stagg - West Orange, NJ - d. 3-17-1965
    legendary football coach: "We the People"
    08-16-1868 - Bernarr Macfadden - Mill Springs, MO - d. 10-12-1955
    calisthentics program on WOR in New York
    08-16-1884 - Bess Flynn - Tama, IA - d. 2-28-1976
    actor, writer: Mother Moynihan "Painted Dreams"; Tilda "The Gumps"
    08-16-1888 - Howard Marsh - Bluffton, IN - d. 8-7-1969
    singer: "Buick Presents"; "Evening in Paris"; "Frigidaire Program"
    08-16-1888 - Marion Sayle Taylor - Louisville, KY - d. 2-1-1942
    advisor: "Voice of Experience"
    08-16-1890 - Myron "Grim" Natwick - Wisconsin Rapids, WI - d. 10-7-1990
    creator of Betty Boop
    08-16-1891 - Harry V. "Pappy" Cheshire - Emporia, KS - d. 6-16-1968
    actor: "The Old Corral"
    08-16-1895 - Lucien Littlefield - San Antonio, TX - d. 6-4-1960
    actor: "Hollywood On the Air"
    08-16-1896 - Eddie Green - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-19-1950
    actor: Eddie the Waiter "Duffy's Tavern"; Jerry "Uncle Charlie's Tent
    Show"
    08-16-1897 - Margery Barnard - Ashfield, Australia - d. 5-8-1987
    writer: "The Watch on the Headland"
    08-16-1899 - Glenn Strange - Weed, NM - d. 9-20-1973
    singer, actor: "Arizona Wranglers"
    08-16-1900 - Walter Kinsella - NY - d. 5-11-1975
    actor: Pat Patton "Dick Tracy"; Sergeant Mullins "Mr. and Mrs. North"
    08-16-1904 - Ruth Gillette - Chicago, IL - d. 5-13-1994
    actor: "Theatre Five"
    08-16-1904 - Wesley Beans - d. 12-3-1992
    baritone: KFSG Los Angeles, California
    08-16-1907 - Mae Clark - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-29-1992
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-16-1908 - Russell Preston Pike, Jr. - d. 9-9-1995
    singer: "The Prairie Knights"
    08-16-1913 - Joe Lilley - d. 1-1-1971
    orchestra leader: "Drene Time"
    08-16-1915 - Al Hibbler - Tyro, MS - d. 4-24-2001
    jazz singer: "A Date with the Duke"; "Jubilee"
    08-16-1915 - Gloria Blondell - NYC - d. 3-25-1986
    actor: Gerry Booker "I Love A Mystery" Gloria Dean "Hollywood Mystery
    Time"
    08-16-1915 - Rosie Ledford - Pilot, KY - d. 7-24-1976
    guitar: (Coon Creek Girls) "WLS National Barn Dance"
    08-16-1924 - Fess Parker - Fort Worth, TX - d. 3-18-2010
    actor: "Guest Star"; "We Hold These Truths"
    08-16-1927 - Neil Strawser - Rittman, OH - d. 12-31-2005
    newscaster: "CBS World News Roundup"
    08-16-1928 - Ann Blyth - Mt. Kisco, NY
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-16-1929 - Lois Nettleton - Oak Park, IL - d. 1-18-2008
    actor: Patsy Dennis "Brighter Day"
    08-16-1930 - Frank Gifford - Santa Monica, CA
    sports announcer: "Sonny Liston Vs. Cassius Clay"
    08-16-1930 - Robert Culp - Oakland, CA - d. 3-24-2010
    actor: "Philip Morris Playhouse on Broadway"
    08-16-1931 - Betsy Von Furstenberg - Neiheim Heusen, Germany
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-16-1932 - Eydie Gorme - The Bronx, NY
    vocalist: Tex Beneke Band
    08-16-1932 - Marianne Moylan - Southampten, NY - d. 7-25-1990
    singer: (The Moylan Sisters) (Angels of the Airwaves) "Moylan Sisters"
    08-16-1933 - Julie Newmar - Los Angeles, CA
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-16-1939 - Carole Shelley - London, England
    08-16-1941 - Paul Hecht - London, England
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    August 16th deaths

    01-01-1911 - Leona Ledoux - d. 8-16-1987
    actor: Robespierre Higgins "Baby Snooks"; Bumstead Children "Blondie"
    01-08-1935 - Elvis Presley - Tupelo, MS - d. 8-16-1977
    singer: "Louisiana Hayride"
    01-19-1905 - Oveta Kulp Hobby (Hobbe) - Killeen, TX - d. 8-16-1995
    first commanding officer of the wacs: "Meet the Press"
    02-06-1895 - Babe Ruth - Baltimore, MD - d. 8-16-1948
    baseball legend: "Advs. of Babe Ruth"; "Here's Babe Ruth"
    02-20-1929 - Amanda Blake - Buffalo, NY - d. 8-16-1989
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Escape"
    03-22-1933 - [removed] McCarthy - NYC - d. 8-16-1995
    One of the Great Voices of the Great Lakes at WJR Detroit
    04-26-1916 - Frances Robinson - Fort Wandsworth, NY - d. 8-16-1971
    actor: Helen Asher "Richard Diamond"; Claire 'Brooksie' Brooks "Let
    George Do It"
    04-30-1911 - Orin Tovrov - Boston, MA - d. 8-16-1980
    writer: "The Brighter Day"; "Ma Perkins"; "Manhattan Mother"
    05-06-1913 - Stewart Granger - London, England - d. 8-16-1993
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    05-17-1890 - Harry Balogh - d. 8-16-1961
    boxing ring announcer during the 1930s and 1940s
    06-02-1913 - Nicholas Saunders - Kiev, Russia - d. 8-16-2006
    actor: Sergeant Ross "Martin Kane, Private Eye"
    06-14-1894 - Benny Fields - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-16-1959
    actor: "The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
    06-29-1909 - Oscar Argumedo - d. 8-16-1986
    disk jockey: KCOR San Antonio, Texas
    06-30-1898 - Carl Pierce - Quincy, MA - d. 8-16-1962
    announcer: "Breakfast at Sardi's"; "The Right Thing to Do"
    07-05-1879 - Wanda Landowska - Warsaw, Poland - d. 8-16-1959
    harpsichordist: "New York Philharmonic"
    07-23-1944 - Alex Buzo - Sydney, Australia - d. 8-16-2006
    writer: "File on Rod"
    08-06-1916 - Phil Leeds - NYC - d. 8-16-1998
    comic actor: "Jane Pickens Show"; "Slapsie Maxie Show"
    08-10-1914 - Jeff Corey - NYC - d. 8-16-2002
    actor: "Nightbeat"; "Escape"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"
    08-26-1918 - Dave Barry - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-16-2001
    comedian: "Major Bowes and the Original Amateur Hour"
    10-11-1925 - Nancy Guild - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-16-1999
    actor: "Proudly We Hail"
    10-20-1882 - Bela Lugosi - Lugos, Hungary - d. 8-16-1956
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
    10-26-1912 - Ed Reimers - Moline, IL - d. 8-16-2009
    announcer/actor: "Dr. [removed]"; "This Changing World"
    11-04-1918 - Jay Jackson - Stockdale, OH - d. 8-16-2005
    host, announcer: "Broadway Talks Back"; "Radio Reader"s Digest"
    11-08-1900 - Margaret Mitchell - Atlanta, GA - d. 8-16-1949
    author: "Gone with the Wind Premier"; "Gone with the Wind"
    11-27-1893 - Harry Foster Welch - Annapolis, MD - d. 8-16-1973
    actor: "Shell Show"
    12-12-1886 - Violet Kemble Cooper - London, England - d. 8-16-1961
    actor: "School for Scandal"

    Ron

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