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Date: 1/6/2020 12:07 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2020 : Issue 1
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 5-11 Janu  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Just learned that Stewart Wright has  [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 13:11:42 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 5-11 January

      From Those Were The Days

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    1935   We proudly remind you that Phil Spitalny's All Girl Orchestra was
    featured on CBS this day on the program, The Hour of Charm.  (ed  And
    who can ever forget Evelyn and her magic violin?)

    1940   The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got its very first
    demonstration of FM radio. The new medium, free of interference, static,
    and noise in thunderstorms, was developed by Major [removed] Armstrong. The
    first FM transmitter was put in operation in 1941.

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    1941   A young actor appeared for the first time in a new program on CBS
    titled, The Home of the Brave. Along with others in the cast, this was
    Richard Widmark's radio debut.

    1950   Ronald Coleman starred as the president of Ivy College in The
    Halls of Ivy.

    1974   CBS radio returned to dramatic programming at night with the
    first broadcast of Radio Mystery Theatre, hosted by [removed] Marshall. The
    program debuted on 218 CBS network stations.

    1/7

    1926   A famous marriage that endured for many years is remembered this
    day. It's the anniversary of George Burns and Gracie Allen who were
    married by a Justice of the Peace in Cleveland, Ohio.

    1940   The gate to Gene Autry's Melody Ranch opened.  "The singing
    cowboy" would entertain on CBS radio for the next 16 years, other than
    1942-45 when he was in the Army Air Corps.

    1941   The NBC Blue network presented the first installment of Inner
    Sanctum.

    1950   Ernest Tubb made his first appearance at The Grand Ole Opry in
    Nashville, TN. Ernest also did a 15 minute radio program each day that
    became very popular in West Texas. So popular, in fact, that he bought
    the radio station that had aired the program for years and years: KGKL
    in San Angelo, Texas.

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    1943   The quiz show, The Better Half, was first heard on Mutual this
    day. The program brought four married couples to compete in stunts
    involving traditional concepts of "manhood" and "womanhood".

    1/11

    1947   Amazing Mr. Malone (aka Murder and Mr. Malone) starring Frank
    Lovejoy, debuted on ABC.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 13:59:28 -0500
    From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Just learned that Stewart Wright has passed away

    Several collectors have been trying to contact him, and it seems concern about
    it grew this weekend. On the OTRR Facebook page, Larry Albert (who worked with
    Jim French and all his productions for decades) wrote "my wife called the
    police in Stewartbs town of Lakewood Colorado and asked them to do a well
    check on him. They called back to tell us that Stewart had passed away in his
    apartment sometime before Thanksgiving of natural causes."
    Stewart may have been the most dedicated and best researchers of program logs
    and production details of radio programs. His work was shared with the hobby
    generously through [removed]

    We need to be sure that his research is always available to the hobby, and
    perhaps we can get some assurance that will be the case, and maybe it can be
    also stored at [removed] which is designed to outlive all of us.
    It seems Stewart lived alone and his only relative was his brother, but no one
    knows his status, nor does anyone know what has become of his research
    materials and his collection.
    This is all disconcerting news and perhaps some answers and more information
    will appear now that word of his passing will get around.

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: This explains why I didn't hear from Stewart around
    Christmas. In years when his health was better, he would drive to Lancaster
    County, PA to visit the one relative-by-marriage with whom he still kept in
    touch; and we would meet for an afternoon, grab lunch, and talk. Since he was
    not able in recent years, we still generally spent an afternoon together
    somewhere around the holidays, by telephone. We would talk occasionally
    throughout the year as well, but almost always around the winter holidays.

    He was a good friend to this Digest, a good friend to me, and _always_ asked
    about my daughter Kate.

    As to placing his research materials on [removed], I can guarantee you he
    would have HATED that idea. He was embittered by his published and
    unpublished works being shared verbatum without his permission (and sometimes
    without attribution!) by certain people and groups within the hobby,
    sometimes posted on [removed] This is one of the reasons that while he
    continued his research, he published less over the last [removed] knew
    everything he released would be immediately appropriated anyway. No, I won't
    get into details, and no, I won't even discuss this further. But his thoughts
    on shoving his work product there were made absolutely clear to me, and so
    now to you.

    But I can also promise you I will miss him, and our occasional but lengthy
    phone calls catching up with each other's lives, dearly.  --cfs3]

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