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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 74
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      5-3 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      looking to do more script books       [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
      The term TL                           [ cnorth6311@[removed] ]
      Theft of recordings from the Nationa  [ "Bob Scherago" <scherago@[removed] ]
      Oh the Humanity! -- Hindenburg's 75t  [ Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed]; ]
      5-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      RE: The Lost Special                  [ Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 23:51:37 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-3 births/deaths

    May 3rd births

    05-03-1874 - Louis Dean - Wilmington, DE - d. 4-8-1933
    announcer: "Stoopnagle and Budd"
    05-03-1880 - Horace Murphy - Finley, TN - d. 1-20-1975
    actor: Buckskin Blodgett "Red Ryder"
    05-03-1890 - Nick Dawson - Vineland, NJ - d. 12-28-1957
    actor: "Dangerous Paradise"; "Follow the Man"
    05-03-1892 - Beulah Bondi - Chicago, IL - d. 1-11-1981
    actor: "Free World Theatre"; "NBC University Theatre"
    05-03-1897 - Charlie Lung - England - d. 6-22-1974
    actor: Paul Sycamore "You Can't Take It with You"; "Wild Bill Hickok";
    "Escape"
    05-03-1897 - Larry Puck - d. 10-26-1969
    producer: "Arthur Godfrey Time" Was one of Godfrey's many firings
    05-03-1898 - Golda Meir - Kiev, Russia - d. 12-8-1978
    israeli prime minister: "Meet the Press"
    05-03-1898 - John Roy - d. 5-31-1985
    actor: Roy Calvert "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
    05-03-1899 - George H. Combs - Lee's Summit, MO - d. 11-29-1977
    congressman, commentator: "Now You Decide"; "Spotlight, New York"
    05-03-1902 - Jack Larue - NYC - d. 1-11-1984
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-03-1902 - Walter Slezak - Vienna,  Austria - d. 4-21-1983
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Best Plays"; "Studio One"; "Columbia
    Workshop"
    05-03-1903 - Bing Crosby - Tacoma, WA - d. 10-14-1977
    singer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
    05-03-1905 - James Nusser - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-8-1979
    actor: "Gunsmoke"
    05-03-1905 - Sebastian Shaw - Holt, England - d. 12-23-1994
    actor: "For Elise"
    05-03-1905 - William Brown Meloney - NYC - d. 5-4-1971
    writer: "Claudia and David"
    05-03-1906 - Anna Roosevelt - Hyde Park, NY - d. 12-1-1975
    Daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On her mother's programs
    05-03-1906 - Mary Astor - Quincy, IL  - d. 9-25-1987
    actor: Mary Christmas "Merry Life of Mary Christmas"
    05-03-1907 - Degar Lustgarten - Manchester, England - d. 12-15-1978
    author: "The Burden Mystery"
    05-03-1907 - Earl Wilson - Rockford, OH - d. 1-16-1987
    columnist: "Earl Wilson's Broadway Column"
    05-03-1909 - Fort Pearson - d. 2-19-1989
    announcer: "Beat the Band"; "Queen for a Day"; "Hoosier Hot Shots"
    05-03-1910 - Curt Massey - Midland, TX - d. 10-21-1991
    singer: "Show Boat"; "Curt Massey Show"
    05-03-1910 - Norman Corwin - Boston, MA - d. 10-18-2011
    writer, director: "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Twenty-Six by Corwin"
    05-03-1911 - Yank Lawson - Trenton, MO - d. 2-18-1995
    trumpet: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    05-03-1919 - Betty Comden - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-23-2006
    writer, actor: "Revuers"
    05-03-1919 - Doris Rich - Canada - d. 5-18-1971
    actor: Hannah O'Leary" Houseboat Hannah"; Miss Daisey "Portia Faces
    Life"
    05-03-1919 - Pete Seeger - NYC
    folk singer, songwriter: "Off the Page"
    05-03-1920 - John Lewis - LaGrange, IL - d. 3-29-2001
    co-founder of "Modern Jazz Quartet": :Modern Jazz Quartet";
    "Listener's Digest"
    05-03-1920 - Nina Bara - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 8-15-1990
    actor: Tonga "Space Patrol"
    05-03-1921 - Joe Ames - Malden, MA - d. 12-22-2007
    singer: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
    05-03-1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson - Detroit, MI - d. 4-12-1989
    pugilist: "Destination Freedom"; "Heat It Now"
    05-03-1922 - Elizabeth Lawrence - d. 6-11-2000
    actor: Francie Brent "Road of Life"
    05-03-1924 - Ken Bailey - East Cleveland, OH - d. 3-25-2008
    producer: "Morning Midway"; "Breakfast With the Baileys"
    05-03-1927 - Rosemary Rice - Montclair, NJ
    actor: Betty Cooper "Archie Andrews"; Jill Malone "Young Doctor Malone"
    05-03-1928 - Dave Dudley - Spencer, WI - d. 12-22-2003
    country singer: "Dave Dudley Trio"
    05-03-1943 - Helen Strohm - San Francisco, CA
    actor: Kathy Anderson "Father Knows Best"

    May 3rd deaths

    02-02-1920 - Hughie Green - London, England - d. 5-3-1997
    host: "Opportunity Knocks"
    02-19-1899 - Carl Matthews - Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-3-1959
    actor: "The Cuckoo Hour"
    02-26-1914 - Robert Alda - NYC - d. 5-3-1986
    singer: "Rudy Vallee Presents the Drene Show"
    03-05-1906 - Aileen Carlyle - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-3-1984
    vocalist: "Spike Jones and His City Slickers"
    03-12-1923 - Walter Schirra - Hackensack, NJ - d. 5-3-2007
    astronaut: "Meet the Press"
    03-16-1894 - Elizabeth Lennox - Ionia, MI - d. 5-3-1992
    singer: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "American Album of Familiar
    Music"
    03-22-1916 - George Wyle - NYC - d. 5-3-2003
    songwriter: "Alan Young"
    04-11-1913 - Millie Good - Mt. Carmel, IL - d. 5-3-1993
    singer: (Girls of the Golden West) "National Barn Dance"
    04-20-1904 - Bruce Cabot - Carlsbad, NM - d. 5-3-1972
    actor: "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; "Hollywood on the Air"
    05-02-1902 - Erin O'Brien-Moore - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-3-1979
    actor: Elsa Banning "Big Sister"
    05-02-1905 - Sidney Skolsky - NYC - d. 5-3-1983
    newspaper columnist: "Songs by Arlen, Stories by Skolsky"; "Bromo
    Seltzer Program"
    05-30-1926 - Christine Jorgenson - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-3-1989
    actor: "Whatever Became [removed]"
    06-14-1914 - Nat Polen - NYC - d. 5-3-1981
    actor: Edward McCormick "Indictment" "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    07-04-1902 - George Murphy - New Haven, CT - d. 5-3-1992
    actor, emcee: "Let's Talk Hollywood"; "Hollywood Calling"
    07-04-1921 - Russ Carlyle - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-3-2011
    vocalist, bandleader: "Tommy Flynn Orchestra"; "Big Band Remotes"
    08-02-1904 - John McClain - Ohio - d. 5-3-1967
    writer: "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-13-1908 - Gene Raymond - NYC - d. 5-3-1998
    actor: John J. Malone "Amazing Mr. Malone"; "Witness"; "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-14-1914 - Bill Downs - Kansas City, MO - d. 5-3-1978
    newscaster: CBS Moscow 1942
    09-15-1922 - Jackie Cooper - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-3-2011
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "George Jessel Show"; "Voice of the Army"
    10-04-1912 - Lynne "Angel" Harvey - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-3-2008
    producer: (Wife of Paul Harvey) "The Rest of the Story"
    10-11-1936 - Billy Higgins - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-3-2001
    jazz drummer: "Jazz Alive"
    10-30-1908 - Patsy Montana - Hot Springs, AK - d. 5-3-1996
    yodeling country singer: (Prairie Ramblers) "Nationial Barn Dance"
    10-30-1927 - Joe Adcock - Coushatta, LA - d. 5-3-1999
    baseball player: "Baseball: An Action History"
    11-30-1903 - Frank Worth - Debrezin, Hungary - d. 5-3-1990
    orchestra leader: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"; Those Websters"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 23:51:48 -0400
    From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  looking to do more script books

    Hi, all. Even though they don't sell well, I love reading and publishing
    scripts, so I'd love to put more books of radio scripts out. If anyone here
    has
    contacts with radio writers, let me know. It's easier to deal with people
    than archives!
    Thanks.

    Ben Ohmart
    New books on old movies
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    Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 23:52:06 -0400
    From: cnorth6311@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The term TL
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    This may have been answered before, but I found the meaning of the term "I
    have a [removed] for you". It means I have a "Trade Last" for you, and that means
    that one has heard a compliment about a person and offers to tell the person
    the compliment under the condition that that person will first report a
    compliment made about oneself. Abbr: [removed] Origin? 1890-1895. Amer.
    ?
    Charlie North

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    Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 23:56:33 -0400
    From: "Bob Scherago" <scherago@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Theft of recordings from the National Archives
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    NEWTOWN, Conn. - J. David Goldin, an eccentric 69-year-old with a handlebar
    mustache and an obsession with radio, was trolling eBay one evening in
    September 2010, looking for old radios and recordings, when he spotted an item
    that piqued his interest: the master copy of a broadcast radio interview with
    baseball legend Babe Ruth as he hunted for quail and pheasants on a crisp
    morning in 1937.

    Read the whole story here:

    [removed]  or

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    --
    Bob Scherago
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    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Buy me a drink at an OTR Convention, and I'll tell you the ironic story about Golden's start in OTR told to me (and anyone else who would listen) by former CBS Engineer Bill Murtough. Buy me a second drink, I might even list some of my friends who were sued by him, right before an FOTR convention.  --cfs3]

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    Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 23:56:40 -0400
    From: Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Oh the Humanity! --  Hindenburg's 75th

    This coming Sunday, May 6th, marks the 75th anniversery of the Hindenburg
    disaster here in New Jersey. Are any terrestrual, satellite, or Internet OTR
    stations or outlets planning any programming to comemmorate it.

    Youth wants to know! Thanks in advance!

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 23:56:48 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-4 births/deaths

    May 4th births

    05-04-1874 - Frank Conrad - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 12-11-1941
    "the father of radio broadcasting" Started radio station KDKA in his
    garage
    05-04-1886 - Earl Lee - Topeka, KS - d. 6-2-1955
    actor: Fred Thompson "One Man's Family"
    05-04-1886 - Shelton Brooks - Amesburg, Ontario - d. 9-6-1975
    composer, author, pianist: "Cavalcade of Music"
    05-04-1896 - Dr. Frank Baxter - Camden, NJ - d. 1-18-1982
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    05-04-1902 - Al Dexter - Jacksonville, TX - d. 1-28-1984
    singer, songwriter: (Pistol Packn' Mama) "Command Performance"
    05-04-1902 - Dudley Williamson - Above Discovery, AK - d. 5-2-1948
    emcee: "What's the Name of the Song?"; "Queen for a Day"
    05-04-1903 - Elmer Leyden - Davenport, IA - d. 6-30-1973
    football player: "One of the Four Horseman" "Information Please"
    05-04-1903 - Luther Adler - NYC - d. 12-8-1984
    actor: Peter Gentle "Mystery Without Murder"; "Greatest Story Ever
    Told (1938-39)"
    05-04-1904 - Gray Gordon - d. 7-23-1976
    bandleader: "The Magic Key of RCA"
    05-04-1909 - Ed Max - Georgia - d. 10-17-1980
    actor: Mr. Gallagher "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen"
    05-04-1909 - Howard Da Silva - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-16-1986
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Forecast"; "Suspense"
    05-04-1912 - Louis Brown - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-7-2007
    composer/conductor: "The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Show"
    05-04-1913 - Carroll Moore, Jr. - Somerville, MA - d. 2-5-1977
    writer: "The Henry Morgan Show"
    05-04-1913 - Joe Aleman - d. 1-2-1996
    disk jockey: KPRL Paso Robles, California
    05-04-1916 - Jean Carroll - Toledo, OH - d. 7-6-1990
    comedian: "The Sealtest Village Store"
    05-04-1918 - Joel Cohen - NYC - d. 3-13-2009
    writer: "Mr. and Mrs. Music"
    05-04-1919 - Thomas Madigan - NYC - d. 7-8-2004
    writer, director: "The Big Guy"
    05-04-1921 - Patsy Garrett - Atlantic City, NJ
    singer: "Broadway Matinee"; "Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne Show"
    05-04-1923 - Erik Sykes - Oldham, Lancashire, England
    actor, writer: "Entertaining Archie"
    05-04-1923 - Godfrey Quigley - Jerusalem - d. 9-7-1994
    producer: "The Kennedys of Castleross"
    05-04-1924 - Gene Klaven - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-8-2004
    new york morning personalty: "Klaven and Finch"; "Klaven in the Morning"
    05-04-1924 - Merrill Mael - d. 10-16-2000
    actor: Uncle Fletcher "Vic and Sade"
    05-04-1927 - Terry Scott - Watford, England - d. 7-26-1994
    actor: "Junior Choice"; "Great Scott, It's Maynard"; "Hugh and I"
    05-04-1929 - Audrey Hepburn - Brussels, Belguim - d. 1-20-1993
    actor: "[removed] Story"; "Stagestruck"
    05-04-1930 - Gordon Gould - Chicago, IL
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    05-04-1938 - Gillian Tindall - London, England
    author: "A Little Touch of Death"

    May 4th deaths

    01-25-1918 - Ernie Harwell - Washington, GA - d. 5-4-2010
    baseball broadcaster for the Detroit Tigers
    02-05-1893 - Carlton Coon - Rochester, MN - d. 5-4-1932
    bandleader: (Coon-Sanders Nighthawks) "Florsheim Frolic"
    05-02-1916 - Two Ton Baker - Chicago, IL - d. 5-4-1975
    singer, pianist: "Tip Top Lunch Program"
    05-03-1905 - William Brown Meloney - NYC - d. 5-4-1971
    writer: "Claudia and David"
    06-10-1898 - Norman Brokenshire - Murcheson, Ontario, Canada - d.
    5-4-1965
    announcer: "Music That Satisfies"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    06-14-1891 - Elaine Sterne Carrington - NYC - d. 5-4-1958
    creator-writer: "Pepper Young's Family"; "Rosemary"; "When a Girl
    Marries"
    06-19-1897 - Moe Howard - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-4-1975
    original stooge: (Three Stooges) "Whatever Became of . . . .?"
    10-23-1931 - Diana Dors - Swindon, Wiltshire, England - d. 5-4-1984
    actor: "Earplay"
    10-28-1915 - Alwyn Kurts - Perth, Western Australia - d. 5-4-2000
    performer: "Raising a Husband"
    11-13-1925 - Ed Backey - Havre de Grace, MD - d. 5-4-1988
    disk jockey: WTOW Towson, Maryland

    Ron

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    Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 12:30:13 -0400
    From: Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: The Lost Special

    Kermit wrote the following concerning the Conan Doyle story "The Lost Special":

>     Several people have commented that this story was done on the Sherlock
>     Holmes radio show, but if it was, it wasn't run under the > original
>     [removed] Can anybody confirm if it was indeed adapted as a Sherlock Holmes
>     broadcast?

    Yes, it was done twice in the early days of the show's original scriptwriter,
    Edith Meiser--first on June 14, 1933 under the title "The Lost Train," and
    repeated on November 18, 1934 as "The Case of the Lost Special," the latter
    appearance being part of a series that Meiser was doing then, adapting
    non-Holmes Doyle stories into Sherlock adventures. (Others included "The
    Hebrew Breastplate" and "The Syrian Mummy.") It was also at this time that
    she started writing her own Holmes stories for radio.
    Mike Ogden

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