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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 14


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Cassette labels
	 Shadow books
	 Casper the Friendly Ghost?
	 AMC Radio Films
	 Anyone have otr boxing matches?
	 any interest in NPR style otr?
	 RE: "new" otr Network material recently found
	 George Burns
	 Help, explanation sought
	 George Burns - a quiet 100th

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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 96 19:29 EST
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cassette labels
Message-Id: <m0taAtZ-000JpUC@[removed]>

>What software does everyone use to print cassette labels?

Wayne, I use a software program called "MyLabelDesigner" which I picked up
for about $[removed] It will print many, many different types of labels. I use
those special cassette labels which when torn off have the holes in the
center. Works great and the software is unbelieveably cheap for its
professionalism.  It is for Windows, by the way. 

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Jim Widner                      INTERNET: jwidner@[removed]
Dayton, OH                      WWW: [removed]
COMPUSERVE: 74566,3041          AOL: JimWidner  
                          

                                                 

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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 96 19:31 EST
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Shadow books
Message-Id: <m0taAvq-000JphC@[removed]>

>A bit off the subject of OTR but if anyone has any info on where to obtain
>Shadow novels(reprints ok), please e-mail me. 
>

I bought a bunch of them for a friend several years ago at an otr
convention. You can also usually find them at the various PulpCons.

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Jim Widner                      INTERNET: jwidner@[removed]
Dayton, OH                      WWW: [removed]
COMPUSERVE: 74566,3041          AOL: JimWidner  
                          

                                                 

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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:02:16 -0500
From: GoodmanJH@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Casper the Friendly Ghost?
Message-ID: <960110200215_112602338@[removed]>

> This ad notes that the Hearst Comics Weekly also features
> Casper, the Katzenjammer Kids, Bringing Up Father, Skippy,
> Barney Google, Cookie.

Could this be in reference to the long-running strip Toots 
and Casper by Jimmy Murphy rather than to Casper the Friendly 
Ghost?  Toots and Casper first appeared in 1918.

Joel Goodman

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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:41:29 -0800
From: davidrj@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: AMC Radio Films
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Here's an alert for those of you with access to the wonderfully nostalgic 
American Film Classics channel on cable:
On Wednesday, Jan. 31, they have scheduled an entire day of films related to or 
starring old time radio personalities:
Here's the schedule, with all times eastern, but double check your local 
schedules just to be sure:
Heavenly Days (Fibber and Molly), 6 [removed]
The Great Gildersleeve, 7:15 [removed]
Gildersleeve on Broadway, 8:30 [removed]
Gildersleeve's Ghost, 10:45 [removed]
Whoopie, noon
Blondie, 1:45 [removed]
Money From Home, 3 [removed]
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, 4:45 [removed]
The Big Broadcast of 1938, 6 [removed]
Burns and Allen Shorts, 7:30 [removed]
Remember WENN, 8 [removed], 1:30 [removed]
Remember WENN, 8:30 [removed], 2 [removed]
Room Service, 9 [removed], 2:30 [removed]
Buck Benny Rides Again, 10:30 [removed], 4 [removed]
Road to Singapore, midnight and 5:30 [removed]

Hope this helps lots of viewers!
Dave J., Vancouver [removed] 

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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:55:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Randy Minnehan <rminneha@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Anyone have otr boxing matches?
Message-ID: <[removed]@acme>

Hi [removed]

   A friend of mine is looking for any and all boxing matches from the
golden days of radio, the complete fights, beginning to end.  Does anyone
reading this have any or know of sources for them? 

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|Randy Minnehan - rminneha@[removed]|
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:59:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Randy Minnehan <rminneha@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: any interest in NPR style otr?
Message-ID: <[removed]@acme>

Hi [removed]

   I mentioned a "find" of some otr shows a few months ago of "The WHA
Players"... is anyone out there interested in obtaining this sort of
material? I have a source who is copying all of the otr holdings of the
University of Wisconsin in Madison, and my source has a boatload of
previously "buried" material produced in the 30's, 40's and 50's by the
University of Wisconsin.  This is not network material, it is mostly news
and book reviews, some well done dramatic-thriller stories, much like
today's NPR programming.  NPR has only been around since 1971, and this is
sort of the forerunner to NPR.  I'm told the quality is excellent, and I'm
just trying to find out now if there is anyone interested in obtaining
copies of this sort of material?  If so, please let me know.


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|Randy Minnehan - rminneha@[removed]|
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[removed]  also, a NEW e-mail address:  minnehan@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 23:12:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Randy Minnehan <rminneha@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: RE: "new" otr Network material recently found
Message-ID: <[removed]@acme>

Hello again [removed]

   I just wanted to follow up on a posting I made several weeks ago before
Christmas about my find of uncirulated NBC material.  Several people from
here on the digest have expressed an interest in this material, and I just
want all of you to know that I am still working on setting these shows
free. I think I have made a deal to index this material for this
governmental library in turn for a copy of all the shows in their
holdings, aprox. 400 shows, many of which are presently uncirulated. I
should know something very soon, and I'll keep you all informed as to my
progress.

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|Randy Minnehan - rminneha@[removed]|
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 96 9:31:13 -0500
From: "MACHARG, KEN" <kmacharg@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: George Burns
Message-ID: <B11EF530017E1B00@[removed]>

LBY517 XXX123 110304
 XXX123
YY YDB NEWS
110304 A :BC-USA-BURNS (ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE, PICTURE)
 FEATURE - Comedian George Burns to mark 100th birthday
    By Steve James
    LOS ANGELES, Jan 11 (Reuter) - Wise-cracking,
cigar-puffing comedian George Burns, who has entertained
audiences in every form of showbusiness this century from
vaudeville to television and movies, turns 100 years old this
month too frail to fulfil his dream of playing the London
Palladium or Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas one more time.
    "Physically, he's just not able to do the show," said his
long-time manager and producer Irving Fein.
    "He's very frail. I understand he's not been feeling too
well recently but at 100 years old he's entitled to feel that
way," said Irving Feintech, past chairman of the board of the
Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, a charity close to Burns' heart.
    But Feintech added, "I saw him a couple of weeks ago and
he still enjoys playing bridge and his two-martini lunches."
    About 18 months ago, a fall forced Burns to cancel plans
to appear on the Palladium stage to celebrate his centennial
on Jan. 20. And last year his frailty prompted him to drop a
scheduled appearance at Caesar's, the casino-hotel, where he
had sold out five nights a year in advance, Fein said.
    He said Burns' book "A Hundred Years, a Hundred Stories"
was scheduled to be published on Jan. 26. "He writes about the
greats, Al Jolson, Fanny Bryce, Danny Kaye. It's very funny."
    Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan has proclaimed Jan. 20
"George Burns Day" in the city known as "The Entertainment
Capital of the World" -- a signal honour for a man born on
Manhattan's poor lower East Side as Nathan Birnbaum, the ninth
of 12 children. The city already has renamed two streets,
which intersect at Cedars-Sinai, for Burns and his longtime
wife and partner Gracie Allen and Riordan's proclamation calls
Burns "a national treasure" for bringing happiness to people.
    In addition, the mayor said, "many have benefitted as a
result of George's philanthropy." Feintech said Burns was a
"very substantial major donor" to the medical centre.
    Fein said Burns, who launched his career in vaudeville at
the age of seven, was expected to attend a party on Jan. 16 at
the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. The bash is for
donors such as movie star Ann-Margret to a new research
institute at Cedars-Sinai to be named for Burns and Allen.
Burns, who won an Oscar for best supporting actor at the age
of 80 -- two years after undergoing open-heart surgery -- is
not expected to perform at the party, however.
    Four days later, Feintech said, Burns probably will
celebrate his landmark birthday quietly at home with family
and friends such as fellow comics Milton Berle and Don
Rickles.
    Over the years, Burns has made much of his increasing age,
and he once said, "Audiences were afraid that if they didn't
applaud I'd drop dead on stage." He escorted a host of
beautiful women but said he could never marry again after
Allen's death at the age of 58.
    "I was with Gracie for 24 hours a day. There can be no
replacement," he said. "I take girls to restaurants and sit
them in dark corners so they can do their homework," he
laughed. "Some of my suits are older than the girls."
    Still smoking 10 cigars a day -- "I also drink martinis
and dance very close" -- Burns gave this recipe for stage
success: "When the people laugh, I smoke. When they stop
laughing, I stop smoking and start to talk."
    Feintech, who has known Burns for many years, described
him as "A man who enjoys life and cares about people."
    For 19 years Burns and Allen appeared on radio and
television, with Allen playing a daffy, scatterbrained wife
and Burns the bemused, tolerant husband and straight man,
philosophically puffing on his cigar. "All I had to do was
listen," Burns once said. "I'd throw in a 'Your brother did
what?' or 'You don't say,' and Gracie would take it from
there."
    When Allen died, Burns decided he had to start working
again. "My talent up to that point was in marrying Gracie,"
said Burns, who is known for his quick wit and a mastery of
timing on stage.
    But it was the death in 1974 of his best friend, comedian
Jack Benny, that made Burns a celebrity all over again,
bringing him to the attention of a whole new generation.
    Benny was slated for the role of a retired comedian
opposite Walter Matthau in the film version of Neil Simon's
"The Sunshine Boys". Burns landed the part instead, despite
undergoing open heart surgery two years earlier, and won the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
    His career soared after that. He went on to make more
films, including playing God in 1978 in "Oh, God," and its two
sequels during the 1980s, as well as "Just You and Me, Kid"
with Brooke Shields and "Going in Style".
    His books include "How to Live to Be 100 -- or More" and
"Dr Burns' Prescription for Happiness". He even made a country
and western album, with a hit song, "I Wish I Was 18 Again".
And at age 95, he became the oldest-ever Grammy award nominee,
in the spoken-word category for "Gracie -- A Love Story".




NNNN

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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:29:39 -0600 (CST)
From: Bruce Toews <bruce@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Help, explanation sought
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Years ago, for Christmas, my parents gave me a copy of the last Jack 
Benny show. It was one of those "Radio Reruns" tapes you used to be able 
to buy. I just recently purchased another copy of that episode which came 
with another episode I wanted. The show is exactly the same, except 
Denis's song is different on both, and the commercial at the end, while 
the scripting is the same, is clearly a different commercial. Dennis's 
song on the Reruns tape is about McGuire, the Liar. From something that 
Mr. Kitzel says later in the program, I'm led to believe that this was in 
fact the song that was meant to accompany the episode. Does anyone have 
any explanation for the discrepancies? I prefer the audio quality of my 
newer acquisition, and the two differences are unimportant, but it's a 
curiosity.

Bruce

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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 10:08:54 -0600
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: George Burns - a quiet 100th
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

It's reported in today's (1/11) news that George Burns won't be performing
anywhere at all on his 100th birthday, a week from this Saturday.  He will
be staying at home with "a few friends."  His manager, Irving Fein, says
that he is very frail now, and has not been feeling well - "but at 100
years old, he's entitled to feel that way."  Even so, his latest book will
be published on that date.

Happy Birthday, George - you're one of the good guys.

John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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