Subject: [removed] Digest V2004 #148
From: <[removed]@[removed]>
Date: 4/28/2004 6:05 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2004 : Issue 148
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      Re: LUCY                              [ Mike Thompson <mthomp86@[removed]; ]
      Re: Lucy and OTR                      [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      More Lucy OTR Episodes                [ George Aust <austhaus1@[removed] ]
      More Baby Episodes                    [ George Aust <austhaus1@[removed] ]
      Lucy and Jack                         [ JackBenny@[removed] ]
      Re: WB Toon References                [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      Lucille Ball on OTR                   [ "Philip Chavin" <philchav@[removed] ]
      Derek's Questions                     [ Udmacon@[removed] ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed] ]
      Walter Winchell and Polio Vaccine     [ "Hamm, Mike (hammcm)" <HAMMCM@UCMAI ]
      Re: Baby themes                       [ hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed]; ]
      Re: Lucy on radio                     [ Jan Krzok <jkrzok@[removed]; ]
      Tizzie Lish                           [ "Arthur Emerson" <milart@[removed] ]
      Lucy OTR                              [ "steven kostelecky" <skostelecky@ho ]
      Metropolitan Opera Broadcast          [ "Arthur Funk" <Art-Funk@[removed]; ]
      4-29 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Lucy on "Lux"                         [ Allen Wilcox <aawjca@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 02:12:00 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
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    over six years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
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    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
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    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:04:45 -0400
    From: Mike Thompson <mthomp86@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: LUCY

    Dick wrote:

>        I am preparing a CD as a gift for my niece who is
>     a great Lucille Ball
>     fan, but not old enough to remember radio. Other
>     than "My Favorite Husband"
>     can
>     anyone give me some suggestions for Lucy on OTR?

    As a big Lucille Ball fan, I think I can offer up a
    few suggestions. In addition to "My Favorite Husband,"
    Lucy has been involved in several OTR productions.
    (one of which also stars Bob Hope), an episode A
    "Smithsonian Legendary Performers: Lucille Ball"
    collection was produced a few years ago (and you can
    order it through Radio Spirits). While the collection
    features 4 "My Favorite Husband" episodes, it also
    features Lucy appearances on: 2 episodes of
    "Suspense," two installments of "Lux Radio Theatre" of
    "Gulf Radio Theatre," and an episode of "Abbott and
    Costello." I received the collection as a gift a few
    years ago, and I must say, I really enjoy it. I think
    your niece would too.

    Mike

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:05:04 -0400
    From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Lucy and OTR
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    Mark J. Cuccia mentioned a list of Lucille Ball performances from OTR, and
    they included this one:

    Suspense: 17-Nov- 1949  "The Red Headed Woman" (also with Desi)

    This particular "Suspense" show surprised me when I heard it once because
    apparently, it was remade (or at least the central premise was borrowed) years
    later on TV as an "I Love Lucy" episode.  The "Lucy" episode in question is
    the
    one where Lucy and Ethel hitch a ride to Florida with a woman in a
    convertible, and they think the woman is a trunk murderer, based on a series
    of news
    bulletins on the radio.  (She also thinks the same of them.)

    Dixon

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:05:44 -0400
    From: George Aust <austhaus1@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  More Lucy OTR Episodes

    In  addition to the other shows already mentioned earlier, I can add
    Lux Radio Theater "Fancy Pants" with Bob Hope 9-10-51, Lux Radio Theater
    "The Dark Corner" 11-10-47, Gulf Screen Guild Theatre "Tight Shoes" 4-12-42.
    There was a nice set put out by  Radio Spirits called The Best Of Old
    Time Radio Starring Lucille Ball, in 2000. I'm pretty sure that it's
    still available. It contained many of the shows mentioned here as well
    as several "My Favorite Husband" episodes.

    George Aust

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:05:59 -0400
    From: George Aust <austhaus1@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  More Baby Episodes

    Lum  and Abner had a long running story about an abandoned baby from
    about 7-20-42 to 9-2-42. With three episodes a week that was alot of
    baby talk.
    Again on 2-7-49 Abner is left with an abandoned baby. What's with these
    guys anyway? Maybe they just looked fatherly.
    Did someone mention the Great Gildersleeve run of shows about an
    abandoned baby? These were very good shows. Sorry I don't have the dates
    close at hand.

    George Aust

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:06:11 -0400
    From: JackBenny@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lucy and Jack

    Mark Cuccia writes:

>     Lucy also must have appeared in various radio commedy/variety shows at
>     times, most likely with Desi in the later 1940s and into the 1950s.
>     I wonder if she appeared on Jack Benny's radio show?

    Not on his radio show, but once on his television show (October 2, 1964).
    She played Mrs. Paul Revere to Jack's Paul Revere, complaining about her
    husband
    staying out all night.

    --Laura Leff
    President, IJBFC
    [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:07:59 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: WB Toon References

    On 4/28/04 12:18 AM [removed]@[removed] wrote:

>     One is a bird named "Raven MacQuandrie" who acts out a dramatic scene.
>     I once came across the name "Haven MacQuarrie," but I'm not actually sure
>     who he is. Insights, anyone?

    Haven MacQuarrie was the master of ceremonies of "So You Want To Be An
    Actor," a program which briefly filled the Chase and Sanborn Sunday night
    time slot in NBC during 1936. It was a variation on the
    amateur-talent-show format with participants testing their skills in
    dramatic sketches.

>     Also, in this film, there's a brief radio cooking show segment presided  over
>     by "Tizzie Fish." Again, can someone help me out as regards as to whom this
>     character is supposed to be a parody of?

    Tizzie Lish was a comedy character played by San Francisco-based
    comedian/female impersonator Bill Comstock. "She" was extremely popular
    on various west-coast variety programs beginning in the late twenties,
    and was probably best known for "her" affiliation with Al Pearce and His
    Gang. Comstock intended the character as a broad parody of the
    daytime-home-economist programs such as those of Ida Bailey Allen, Martha
    Meade, or Mary Lee Taylor.

>     In several  other W-B cartoons, I have also heard the expression "tattletale
>     gray," which I'm led to believe was an advertising slogan that for a time
>     became a popular catch-phrase. If anybody knows which detergent popularized
>     this now obsolete phraseology, I'd greatly appreciate it.

    This is Fels-Naptha Soap, a yellow laundry bar with a "clean naptha odor"
    (it smells like perfumed kerosene, if you ask me, and it will also strip
    the skin from your hands if you aren't careful.) It's still on the
    market, and is quite handy for pre-wash spotting. My grandmother, for
    one, would use nothing else. Although it was also available in chip form,
    and later in powder form, it was cheapest to do what she did -- simply
    buy the bar and then chip it into the washing machine yourself using a
    cheese grater. My grandfather also used it at his gas station as an
    emergency sealant for leaky fuel tanks.

>     Does anybody know of any tinned
>     products from that time known to have bunny rabbits thereupon?

    This is Br'er Rabbit Molasses, named for the Uncle Remus character --
    although the rabbit on the label is much classier-looking than the
    Disneyfied version: he appears on the label wearing a suit coat, high
    collar, and bow tie. This product is also still available.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:08:19 -0400
    From: "Philip Chavin" <philchav@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lucille Ball on OTR

        Ms. Ball was the guest panelist on Twenty Questions on its broadcast of
    1 June 1946.  I think that may have been the first network-wide broadcast of
    the program -- at least it started in Chicago on that date.   The program
    had begun broadcasting (eastern USA only?) in  February of that year.

      -- Phil C.

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:09:06 -0400
    From: Udmacon@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Derek's Questions

    "Tizzy Fish" would be "Tizzy LISH," a hilarious old maid character played by
    a man on the Al Pierce Show.

    I think "tell tale gray" referred to a lady's dyed hair finally fading to
    show what color REALLY lies [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:11:22 -0400
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi friends,

    	Here is this week's line-up for the week of 4-25-04 on my Olde Tyme
    Radio
    [removed] Featuring Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio Theatre," Big John
    Matthews and Steve Urbaniak's "The Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same
    Station" broadcasts, being broadcast on demand 24/7 in high quality
    streaming RealAudio at [removed]

    Past archived broadcasts are also available there.

    We look forward to having you join us!

    	Jerry

    Here's this week's lineup:

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION with Jerry Haendiges

    THE ADVENTURES OF TOPPER
    Episode 5  7-5-45  "The Telephone Repairman"
    Stars: Roland Young, Hope Emerson, Frances Chaney and Paul Mann

    THE LIBERACE PROGRAM
    Episode 25  1-12-55  "Stephen Foster Tribute"
    Stars: Lee Liberace
    Guest: Annette Warren
    Music Director: George Liberace
    Announcer: Bill Leyden

    THEATER GUILD ON THE AIR
    Episode 64  2-23-47  "Blithe Spirit"
    Clifton Webb, Leonora Corbett and Mildred Natwick, Kathleen Cordell
    =======================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE with Tom Heathwood

    GUNSMOKE
    CBS    3-13-54    "Confederate Money"
    Stars: William Conrad

    LUM AND ABNER
    NBC-Blue    1943    Part II of "Opening of a Picture Show"

    EDGAR BERGAN & CHARLIE McCARTHY SHOW
    NBC    10-17-46    Guest: Tallulah Bankhead

    THE BATMAN MYSTERY CLUB
    Audition Program    9-5-50    "The Monster of Dunphrey's Hall"
    ========================================

    THE GLOWING DIAL with Big John Matthews and Steve Urbaniak

    Amos 'n' Andy
    CBS    10/7/51    "Aptitude Test"

    Kay Kyser's Kollege Of Musical Knowledge
    NBC / AFRS    10/11/44    "from the [removed] Naval Station at Alameda,
    California"

    The First Nighter Program
    CBS    12/22/45    "Little Town Of Bethlehem"

    Grand Central Station
    CBS    8/15/51    "If The Shoe Doesn't Fit"

    Guest Star
    [removed] Treasury Dept.    10/9/49    # 133    "Hopalong Cassidy"

    The Couple Next Door
    CBS    1/1/58    # 3    "Phone Call"
    ====================================

    Please feel free to contact me with any questions or requests for upcoming
    shows.

                Jerry Haendiges CET <Jerry@[removed]; 562-696-4387

      [removed]  The Vintage Radio Place
      Largest source of OTR Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:43:25 -0400
    From: "Hamm, Mike (hammcm)" <HAMMCM@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Walter Winchell and Polio Vaccine

    PBS recently aired a program about the polio vaccine.  The program mentioned
    Walter Winchell used his program to advise parents to not allow their
    children to participate in the test of the vaccine.  Did Winchell have
    anything to say after the vaccine proved to be successful?

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:29:08 -0400
    From: hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Baby themes

    Someone recently asked;

> >     I am trying to put together a list of radio programs that is a baby
> >     theme episode, such as episodes with babies or expecting a baby,

    We did at least one like that on "Archie Andrews". As a matter of fact, I
    think I have a copy. (Archie & Jughead got stuck Baby sitting (I think).
    Unfortunately, we just made a major reorganization of office space (my wife
    and I) and ALL MY STUFF is still in boxes, yet to be sorted. I'm lucky I can
    find my computer.

    Ask me again in a few weeks. I might be unpacked by then. Or if Bill
    Guggenheim is lurking (the Archie Show's #1 fan), Maybe he has the title at
    his fingertips. I would almost bet the word "baby" is in the title.

    Hal(Harlan)Stone
    Jughead

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:56:26 -0400
    From: Jan Krzok <jkrzok@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Lucy on radio

    Dick Backus wrote:

>     I am preparing a CD as a gift for my niece who is a great Lucille
>     Ball fan, but not old enough to remember radio. Other than "My
>     Favorite Husband" can anyone give me some suggestions for Lucy on
>     OTR?

    This is from the Lucy-Desi Museum website:
    "Good News of 1940" (NBC; December 28, 1939)
    "The Campbell Playhouse" (CBS; February 18, 1940)
    "The Gulf Screen Guild Theatre: 'Tight Shoes'" (CBS; April 12, 1942)
    "The Kraft Music Hall" (NBC; April 1, 1943)
    "Duffy's Tavern" (NBC Blue; September 12, 1943)
    "Suspense: 'A Little Piece of Rope'" (CBS; October 14, 1943)
    "The Abbott and Costello Show" (NBC; November 11, 1943)
    "Suspense: 'Dime a Dance'" (CBS; January 13, 1944)
    "The Kraft Music Hall" (NBC; March 2, 1944)
    "Suspense: 'The Ten Grand'" (CBS; June 22, 1944)
    "The Lux Radio Theatre" (CBS; September 25, 1944)
    "The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre: 'A Girl, A Guy, And A Gob'" (CBS;
    October 9, 1944)
    "The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre: 'China Seas'" (CBS; December 4,
    1944)
    "Suspense: 'A Shroud For Sarah'" (CBS; October 25, 1945)
    "The Colgate Sports Newsreel" (NBC; May 24, 1946)
    "The Radio Reader's Digest: 'The Whirligig of Life'" (CBS; June 9, 1946)
    "The Radio Reader's Digest: 'The Lion and the Mousy'" (CBS; May 22, 1947)
    "Hollywood Fights Back" (ABC; October 26, 1947)
    "The Jimmy Durante Show" (NBC; October 29, 1947)
    "The Lux Radio Theatre: 'The Dark Corner'" (CBS; November 10, 1947)
    "The Kraft Music Hall" (NBC; January 22, 1948)
    "The Jimmy Durante Show" (NBC; April 28, 1948)
    "The Cavalcade Of America: 'Skylark Song'" (NBC; June 21, 1948)
    "Erskine Johnson's Hollywood Story" (Mutual; August 25, 1948)
    "Screen Directors' Playhouse: 'Her Husband's Affairs'" (NBC, May 22, 1949)
    "The Bob Hope Swan Show" (NBC; May 31, 1949)
    "Suspense: 'Red-headed Woman'" (CBS; November 17, 1949)
    "Screen Directors' Playhouse: 'Miss Grant Takes Richmond'" (NBC; May 19,
    1950)
    "The Cavalcade Of America: 'The Redemption Of Lottie Moon'" (NBC; June 13,
    1950)
    "Screen Directors' Playhouse: 'A Foreign Affair'" (NBC; March 1, 1951)
    "Screen Directors' Playhouse: 'Bachelor Mother'" (NBC; March 8, 1951)
    "The Lux Radio Theatre: 'Fancy Pants'" (CBS; September 10, 1951)

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:04:11 -0400
    From: "Arthur Emerson" <milart@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Tizzie  Lish

    Derek's question about a cartoon character named Tizzy Fish refers to a
    character on the Al Pearce and his Gang radio show named Tizzy (Tizzie)
    Lish - played by Bill Comstock.  The character attempted to read a recipe or
    an instruction and became hilariously confused and disoriented.  The
    character is important to American slang because it nurtured the phrase "to
    be all in a tizzy".

    Arthur Emerson

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:37:13 -0400
    From: "steven kostelecky" <skostelecky@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lucy OTR

    A particular favorite of mine is Lucy with Groucho on GI Journal. The main
    sketch involves "Dr. Livingstone Marx", but Lucy is laughing so hard through
    the whole show that she must have been having a good time and it is
    infectious.

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:46:31 -0400
    From: "Arthur Funk" <Art-Funk@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Metropolitan Opera Broadcast

    In Digest #146 Frank Coopersmith wrote"

>     To have ever heard Milton Cross speak of, "...the great golden
>     [removed]" on a Metropolitan Opera Broadcast is to know just how
>     incredibly effective radio was in communicating to its audience
>     during OTRs, "Golden Age."

    Though I'm not an opera fan, I heard at least part of many a broadcast
    because my Dad listened to the Met every Saturday.  Besides Milton Cross'
    wonderful voice, I also remember the opening theme which I think was from
    the overture to an opera.  I think of the Met and Milton Cross every time I
    hear those strains as I drive along listening to classical music on my local
    NPR station, [removed] FM WUSF, Tampa, Fla.  It is as associated with the Met
    broadcast in my memory banks as is the William Tell overture with The Lone
    Ranger.

    Regards to all,
    Art Funk

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:32:30 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-29 births/deaths

    April 29th births

    04-29-1896 - Harry McNaughton - Surbiton, England - d. 2-26-1967
    actor, panelist: Higgins "It's Higgins. Sir"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
    04-29-1899 - Duke Ellington - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-24-1974
    bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Story of Swing"
    04-29-1903 - Frank Parker - NYC - d. 1-10-1999
    singer: "A & P Gypsies"; "Jack Benny Program"; "Frank Parker Show
    04-29-1903 - Richard Leibert - Bethlehem, PA - d. 10-22-1976
    organist: "Dick Leibert's Musical Revue"; "Organ Rhapsody"
    04-29-1904 - Russ Morgan - Scranton, PA - d. 8-8-1969
    bandleader: (Music in the Morgan Manner) "Russ Morgan Orchestra"
    04-29-1912 - Ian Martin - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-25-1981
    actor: Horace Sutton "Young Dr. Malone"; Harry Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"
    04-29-1912 - John MacVane - Portland, ME - d. 1-28-1984
    newscaster: "United or Not"
    04-29-1912 - Richard Carlson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 11-25-1977
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-29-1914 - Derek Guyler - Wallasey, Merseyside, England - d. 10-8-1999
    actor: "It's That Man Again"
    04-29-1915 - Donald F. Mills - Piqua, OH - d. 11-13-1999
    singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"
    04-29-1919 - Celeste Holm - NYC
    actress: "House on Q Street"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "New World
    A-Coming"
    04-29-1936 - Zubin Mehta - Bombay, India
    conductor: New York Symphony Orchestra

    April 29th deaths

    05-06-1912 - Bill Quinn - NYC - d. 4-29-1994
    actor: Guy Aldis "Against the Storm"; Tom Davis "When a Girl Marries"
    07-01-1881 - Josef Pasternack - Czenstachown, Poland - d. 4-29-1940
    conductor: "Atwater Kent Concert"; "Carnation Contented Hour"
    07-24-1853 - William Gillette - Hartford, CT - d. 4-29-1937
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
    08-13-1899 - Alfred Hitchcock - London, England - d. 4-29-1980
    host: "Murder by Experts"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    For a complete list:
    [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:55:59 -0400
    From: Allen Wilcox <aawjca@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lucy on "Lux"

    Lucy also appeared on The Lux Radio Theater. The radio
    version of the movie, "The Man Who Came To Dinner",
    starring Monty Woolly and Lucille Ball. Lucy played
    the role that Betty Davis played in the film.

    Also check out the Screen Directors Playhouse version
    of "Miss Grant Takes Richmond. Both the radio and film
    version starred the Queen of Comedy. William Holden
    played the male lead in the movie. "The Man Who Came
    To Dinner" and "Miss Grant Takes Richmond" are great
    comedic programs out side of Lucy's video work and "My
    favorite Husband". Worth listening to.
    Allen

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