Subject: [removed] Digest V2010 #8
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 1/15/2010 6:46 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 8
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Senator [removed]                      [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
      HOW FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY WON WORL  [ David Siegel <otrdsiegel@[removed] ]
      Re: Kenny Delmar as Senator Claghorn  [ Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed]; ]
      Re: Kenny Delmar as Senator Claghorn  [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
      Thoughts on NBC-TV                    [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Vic & Sade program on Radio Once Mor  [ Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@yahoo. ]
      Jack Novak For Hire transcribed?      [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed] ]
      Betty White on radio                  [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      1-14 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Jack Benny's TV debut                 [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      The King of KONGs (?)                 [ wich2@[removed] ]
      1-15 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      RE: WOR's Alfred McCann               [ Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:36:57 -0500
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Senator [removed]

    Jack Webb did an excellent impersonation of Senator Bilbo on his neat radio
    series, "One out of seven."  The series ran on ABC in 1946. Webb used pretty
    much the exact words of the person being impersonated. I have 4 episodes and
    would like to find more.  It was a technque similar to the one that E R
    Murrow used in exposing Senator Joseph McCarthy in the mid-1950s, on
    television.

    Ted Kneebone. 1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401. Phone: 605-226-3344.
    Old Time Radio: [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:37:06 -0500
    From: David Siegel <otrdsiegel@[removed];
    To: OTR DIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  HOW FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY WON WORLD WAR II

    BEN, MICKEY AND ME
      Honesty remains the best, and also the safest approach to follow,
    especially when attempting   to review a book in which my  name
    appears on the acknowledgement page and again as the fellow who
    contributed the book's Foreward.

           If truth be known i received my copy of the book two days
    before posting this commentary and I strugled quite a bit before
    deciding to post anything about the book fearing that anything I
    wrote wouold be compromised by the aforementioned confesssion BUT
    darn it, the book is great.

         Mickey Smith leads us from the very start of WW II how Don Quinn
    and Phil Leslie  turned  Fibber and Molly (imperfecct as most of us
    are) as the radio family best known by most listeners then and fans
    todaycould  remind your parents and mine (as they tunedin each week,
    that even a  loud mouth braggart like Fibbber , with Molly's
    blessing, could set an example for listeners on hoe to support
    the  efffort and still offer enough laffs to tune in gain thr next
    week (and continue to purcase Johnson;s [removed]

         Oh, did I forget to mention that due to a slight change in the
    status of my own family, te talented partner, without whose skills,
    none of thr books that  credit me with authorship, would have seen
    the light of [removed] recently been elected to the full time
    offfice as Town [removed] do I mention this? Because Ben Ohmart,
    the magician who lives and loves in Japan and who as the owner of
    Bear Manor Press (publisher of HOW FIBBER AND MOLLY WON WORLD WAR II)
    came to my rescue having agreeed to publlish a book that provides an
    extensivr to the Oral History of radio as told by more than 900 folks
    who made it happen as  well as the text of a number of interviews
    that I conducted. But this did not affect my praise of the Smith book

            Mickey, does not limit his volume to just the script excerpts
    prooving his premise, Reflective of his academic prowess of the head
    of the  school of pharmacy at Missisippi Univrsity and a respected
    scholar and [removed] proovides both the historic influence onthe
    program series as well as the production details.

         And finally, while I have never laid eyes on the author, he and
    I have corresponded for years. And just to prove how honest I can be,
    prbably  the best book about FIBBER is one written by Clair Schulz
    (check it out) BUT if you are a fan of FIBBER you really should have
    both books.   Aftter all you wouldn't be happy with only a single
    Fibber & Molly program in your collection.

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    Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:37:15 -0500
    From: Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Kenny Delmar as Senator Claghorn

>     I was wondering if anyone knew who filed the suit
>     against Kenny Delmar in 1946 and what the name
>     of the play was?

    The suit was filed by actor Dayton Allen, and the play he and Delmar had
    co-written was titled "It's a Gift." It was an unproduced work, at least at
    the time Allen filed suit.

    Randy

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    Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:37:32 -0500
    From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Kenny Delmar as Senator Claghorn

>     I was wondering if anyone knew who filed the
>     suit against Kenny Delmar in 1946 and what
>     the name of the play was?

    The January 8, 1949 issue of Billboard (online at [removed]) has a
    two-paragraph story (datelined January 1) about Delmar's being "absolved of
    piracy" by the New York Supreme Court. "Delmar had been accused by Dayton
    Allen (no relation to Fred) of taking Claghorn out of an unproduced play
    _It's a Gift_, co-authored in 1943 by the plaintiff and defendant."

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    Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:37:37 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Thoughts on NBC-TV

    I haven't gotten worked up over the media blitz we are receiving on the tube
    in multiple sound-bites two or three times an hour pertaining to Leno and
    O'Brien that the mediaites think we are devouring (maybe because they are).

    Yet I have wondered more than once:  Did this kind of thing ever happen to
    anybody in radio?  Nothing immediately comes to mind.  The fallout from
    Arthur Godfrey's firing of Julius LaRosa on the air was about the biggest
    debacle I can remember beyond War of the Worlds.  Does anybody know a time
    when radio executives moved somebody from one timeslot to another and a
    performer balked?  Fred Allen quit altogether when Stop the Music! stopped
    him cold.  Did two entertainers quibble over a choice timeslot, however?

    Surely somebody will have something memorable here.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:37:45 -0500
    From: Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Vic & Sade program on Radio Once More

    On Monday, 1/18, at 9:00pm (EST) I'll be a guest with Neal Ellis and Ken
    Stockinger on Radio Once More ([removed]) where the subject will
    be Vic & Sade and the brilliant writing of Paul Rhymer.

    We'll be playing favorite episodes, an early 70's interview with announcer
    Bob Brown and taking your calls.  It would be nice to hear from some of you.

    Rodney

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    Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:37:54 -0500
    From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Novak For Hire transcribed?

    An online existing script for Jack Novak gives a date of June 5, 1949 which
    is the date the show aired on KECA in Los Angeles. However, the Chicago
    tribune shows the show airing a day earlier (Saturday) on WCFL. Chicago and
    Madison Wisconsin papers show Saturday broadcasts from March 1949 to June
    1949 while other newspapers show Sunday broadcasts on the West Coast?

    Was it transcribed and the script date just an indication of about when the
    show would play, but not necessarily on that date?

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    Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:38:00 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Betty White on radio

    The current issue of "Screen Actor", the membership organ of the
    Screen Actors' Guild, contains a long article on Betty White, age 88,
    who just received the Annual SAG Lifetime Achievement Award. This
    award, given out by the Guild, has been presented to 45 previous
    yearly winners, dating back to 1962.

    Although she is famous for her roles on TV and in the movies, like
    many performers, Betty found work early in her career on the radio.
    She got her AFTRA card (well, it was AFRA in those days) in [removed] in
    the early 40s by getting one word in a radio commercial. White was
    later heard in the supporting casts of "Blondie," "The Great
    Gildersleeve," and "This is Your FBI."

    In the mid 40s, she got her own radio show, "The Betty White Show"
    which was somewhat of a success. Jay Hickerson has no listing of this
    program in his Ultimate History guide, so apparently this was not a
    network show and no copies have survived. `

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:38:05 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-14 births/deaths

    January 14th births

    01-14-1863 - R. F. Outcault - Lancaster, OH - d. 9-25-1928
    writer: Buster Brown based on Outcalt's comic strip
    01-14-1882 - Hendrick Van Loon - Rotterdam, Holland - d. 3-11-1944
    journalist: "Very Truly Yours"; "Information Please"
    01-14-1891 - Maurice Black - Queens, NY - d. 1-18-1938
    tuba: "The Clicquot Club Eskimos"
    01-14-1892 - Hal Roach - Elmira, NY - d. 11-2-1992
    film producer, actor: Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    01-14-1894 - Mary "Bubbles" Kelly - Chicago, IL - d. 6-7-1941
    actor: (Ex Jack Benny girlfriend) "Honolulu Bound"
    01-14-1896 - Seymour Simons - Detroit, MI - d. 2-12-1949
    orchestra leader: "Romantic Rhythm"
    01-14-1899 - Carlos P. Romulo - Camiling, Tarlac, Philippines - d.
    12-15-1985
    diplomat: "Information Please"
    01-14-1901 - Bebe Daniels - Dallas, TX - d. 3-16-1971
    actor: "Life with the Lyons"; "Louella Parsons"
    01-14-1904 - George McCoy - d. 12-22-1976
    1930's broadcaster: (Pioneered the radio talk show)
    01-14-1906 - William Bendix - NYC - d. 12-14-1964
    actor: Chester A. Riley "Life of Riley"
    01-14-1908 - Russ Columbo - Camden, NJ - d. 9-2-1934
    singer, bandleader: "Russ Columbo Show"
    01-14-1909 - Brenda Forbes - London, England - d. 9-11-1996
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Theatre Guild on the Air"
    01-14-1909 - Joseph Losey - La Crosse, WI - d. 6-22-1984
    director: "Words at War"
    01-14-1911 - David Gothard - Beardstown, IL - d. 8-2-1977
    actor: Gil Whitney "Romance of Helen Trent"; Nick Charles "The Thin Man"
    01-14-1913 - Mary Rita Stewart - d. 8-19-1995
    dancer, singer: (The Three Debutantes) "Irene"
    01-14-1914 - Harold Russell - North Sydney, Canada - d. 1-29-2002
    world war II hero, actor: "A Salute to the [removed]"; "NBC University
    Theatre"
    01-14-1915 - George Ansbro - Brooklyn, NY
    announcer: "Young Widder Brown"; "Waltz Time"
    01-14-1915 - Mark Goodson - Sacramento, CA - d. 12-18-1992
    producer, director: "Portia Faces Life"; "Stop the Music"
    01-14-1917 - Billy Butterfield - Middletown, OH - d. 3-18-1988
    bandleader: "The Dixieland Music Shop"; "Eddie Condon"s Jazz Concert"
    01-14-1919 - Andy Rooney - Albany, NY
    writer: "Red Skelton Show"; "Arthur Godfrey"
    01-14-1920 - George Herman - NYC - d. 2-8-2005
    newsman: CBS news writer
    01-14-1923 - Shirley (Ione) Cowell - Tulsa, OK - d. 10-29-1997
    singer: "The Shirley Cowell Show"
    01-14-1929 - Billy Walker - Ralls, TX - d. 5-21-2006
    c/w singer: "Columbia's Country Caravan", "Country Music Time"
    01-14-1930 - Johnny Grande - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-2-2006
    pianist: (Bill Haley and The Comets) "Stars for Defense"
    01-14-1931 - Caterina Valente - Paris, France
    singer: "Guard Session"
    01-14-1934 - Richard Briers - Raynes Park, England
    actor: Bertie Wooster "Jeeves"
    01-14-1938 - Jack Jones - Hollywood, CA
    singer: "Steve Lawrence Show"; "Guest Star"; "Stars for Defense"
    01-14-1943 - Holland Taylor - Philadelphia, PA
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    January 14th deaths

    01-27-1921 - Donna Reed - Dennison, IA - d. 1-14-1986
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Star and the Story"; "Silver Theatre"
    02-13-1916 - Albert Harris - London, England - d. 1-14-2005
    conductor, composer: "Four-Star Playhouse"; "NBC University Theatre"
    02-24-1904 - Tim Graham - Kansas - d. 1-14-1979
    actor: "Plays for Americans"
    04-13-1886 - Willie Howard - Paramus, NY - d. 1-14-1949
    comedian: (Howard Brothers) "Folies De Paris"; "The Royal Vagabonds"
    06-12-1919 - Uta Hagen - Gottingen, Germany - d. 1-14-2004
    actor: "Big Show"
    06-14-1917 - Paul Monash - NYC - d. 1-14-2003
    writer: "Molle Mystery Theatre"
    06-18-1903 - Jeanette MacDonald - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-14-1965
    singer: "Nobody's Children"; "Vicks Open House"; "Campbell Playhouse"
    08-19-1889 - Don "Uncle Don" Carney - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-14-1954
    host: "Uncle Don"; "Friendship Village"; "Dog Chats"
    08-20-1935 - Justin Tubb - San Antonio, TX - d. 1-14-1998
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    08-21-1896 - Marie Blake - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-14-1978
    actor: (Sister of Janette MacDonald) "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-22-1922 - Shelley Winters - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-14-2006
    actor: "Hollywood Star Preview"
    09-17-1902 - Esther Ralston - Bar Harbor, ME - d. 1-14-1994
    actor: Martha Jackson "Woman of Courage"; Kathy Marsh "Portia Faces
    Life"
    09-17-1915 - John Witty - Bristol, England - d. 1-14-1990
    Began radio broadcasting for the BBC in 1944
    09-28-1916 - Peter Finch - London, England - d. 1-14-1977
    actor: Australian Radio
    10-05-1924 - Barbara Kelly - Vancouver, Canada - d. 1-14-2007
    actor: "Vanity Fair"; "Breakfast with Braden"
    11-25-1920 - Ricardo Montalban - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 1-14-2009
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "As Easy as [removed]"
    12-11-1910 - Samuel Kurtzman - d. 1-14-1998
    writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
    12-25-1899 - Humphrey Bogart - NYC - d. 1-14-1957
    actor: Slate Shannon "Bold Venture"; "Stars in the Air"; "Streamlined
    Shakespeare"

    Ron

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    Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:38:24 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Benny's TV debut

>     Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:49:45 -0500
>     From: Michael Berger <[removed]@[removed];

>     In fact, after his token appearance on the 1949 KTTV special, Benny's
>     first full Lucky Strike Program show on TV didn't happen until Oct.
>     28, 1950, eleven months before the coaxial cable was in place

    And I believe he flew to New York to do the program.  And it was
    several more years before he moved to a bi-weekly schedule on
    television.  He didn't move to a weekly TV schedule until fall 1960,
    over five years after his radio show had ended.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     92 State Street, Suite 700                   Fax [removed]
    Boston, MA 02109-2004           	         [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:38:29 -0500
    From: wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The King of KONGs (?)

    Dear Folks-

    Some pretty learned genre  folks over at the Classic Horror Film Board (a
    worthy place, by the way) are  debating the provenance of this  piece:

    [removed]

    It sounds like  it may be legitimate, to me; love to hear what you all
    think.

    Best,
    -Craig W.

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    Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:38:35 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-15 births/deaths

    January 15th births

    01-15-1882 - Henry Burr - St. Stephen, Canada - d. 4-6-1941
    singer: "National Barn Dance"; "Uncle Ezra"
    01-15-1899 - Goodman Ace - Kansas City, MO - d. 3-25-1982
    comedian, writer: "Easy Aces"
    01-15-1906 - Sully Mason - Durham, NC - d. 11-27-1970
    singer: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    01-15-1909 - Gene Krupa - Chicago, IL - d. 10-16-1973
    drummer: "Rhythm Masters"; "Benny Goodman and His Orchestra"
    01-15-1909 - Gloria Grafton - Yakima, WA - d. 12-29-1994
    actor: Mickey Considine "The Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
    01-15-1911 - Cy Feuer - NYC - d. 5-17-2006
    music: "Escape"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"; "Shorty Bell"
    01-15-1911 - Kathleen Wilson - Girard, KS - d. 7-20-2005
    actor: Claudia Barbour "One Man's Family"; I Love a Mystery"
    01-15-1913 - Alvin Robinson - Apache, OK
    NBC staff announcer
    01-15-1913 - Frank Derrick - Maywood, IL - d. 5-26-1999
    member of staff orchestra WBBM Chicago, Illinois
    01-15-1913 - Lloyd Bridges - San Leandro, CA - d. 3-10-1998
    actor: "Suspense"; "Arch Oboler's Plays"
    01-15-1913 - Stephen Courtleigh - NYC - d. 12-15-1967
    actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"
    01-15-1914 - Carlos Ramirez - Tocaim, Colombia - d. 12-11-1986
    vocalist: "Grapevine Rancho"
    01-15-1915 - Ann Sheperd - Chicago, IL
    actor: Betty Fairchild "Jack Armstrong"; Joyce Jordan "Joyce Jordan,
    Girl Interne"
    01-15-1915 - Rod MacLeish - Bryn Mawr, PA - d. 7-1-2006
    writer: "Six By Corwin"
    01-15-1918 - Jerry Wald - Newark, NJ - d. 9-xx-1973
    bandleader: "The Robert Q. Lewis Show"
    01-15-1920 - Yvonne King - Ephriam, UT - d. 12-13-2009
    singer: (King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"
    01-15-1922 - Thelma Carpenter - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-17-1997
    singer: "Eddie Cantor Show"
    01-15-1923 - Ivor Cutler - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 3-3-2006
    poet: BBC's Home Service
    01-15-1928 - Joanne Linville - Bakersfield, CA
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    01-15-1929 - Martin Luther King - Atlanta, GA - d. 4-4-1968
    civil right leader: "Monitor"
    01-15-1933 - Al Lohman - Sergeant Bluff, IA - d. 10-13-2002
    co-host: "Lohman and Barkley"
    01-15-1937 - Margaret O'Brien - San Diego, CA
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"

    January 15th deaths

    01-10-1904 - Ray Bolger - Dorchester, MA - d. 1-15-1987
    singer, dancer: "Ray Bolger Show"
    01-13-1927 - Delores Hawkins - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-15-1987
    singer: "Nick Kenny's Children's Follies"
    01-18-1912 - Bob Sabin - Illinois - d. 1-15-1959
    announcer: "Modern Romances"
    01-31-1922 - William Sylvester - Oakland, CA - d. 1-15-1995
    actor: Jay Gatsby "Gatsby"
    02-04-1931 - Marion Ryan - Leeds, England - d. 1-15-1999
    pop singer: "Ray Ellington Quarter"
    02-20-1906 - Jack Jackson - Horsley, England - d. 1-15-1978
    disc jockey: "Record Round-Up"; "Rooftop Rendezvous"; "Cabaret Crusie"
    02-27-1912 - Ralph Camargo - Glendale, CA - d. 1-15-1992
    actor: "X-Minus One"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    02-27-1921 - E. Jack Neuman - Ohio - d. 1-15-1998
    writer: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Advs. of Sam Spade"; "Escape"
    03-14-1922 - Les Baxter - Mexia, TX - d. 1-15-1996
    arranger/conductor: "Bob Hope Show"; "California Melodies"; "Swingtime"
    03-24-1915 - Bill Bivens - Wadesboro, NC - d. 1-15-1984
    announcer: "Fred Waring Show"; "Vox Pox"
    03-25-1921 - Nancy Kelly - Lowell, MA - d. 1-15-1995
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Free Company"; "Suspense"
    05-17-1920 - Harriet Van Horne - Syracuse, NY - d. 1-15-1998
    newspaper columnist: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"
    05-26-1918 - John Dall - NYC - d. 1-15-1971
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Voice of the Army"
    06-09-1903 - Marcia Davenport - NYC - d. 1-15-1996
    auther: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-18-1913 - Sammy Cahn - NYC - d. 1-15-1993
    lyricist: "You Bet Your Life"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"; "Monitor"
    06-21-1882 - William Afsprung - d. 1-15-1976
    reader: WLW Cincinnati, Ohio
    06-29-1915 - Ruth Warrick - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-15-2005
    actor: "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"; "Myrt and Marge"
    07-31-1894 - Roy Bargy - Newaygo, MI - d. 1-15-1974
    conductor: "Jimmy Durante Show"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "Rexall Summer
    Theatre"
    08-11-1907 - Andrew Allan - Arbroath, Scotland - d. 1-15-1974
    writer of radio plays: "Mistress Nell"
    08-20-1905 - Jack Teagarden - Vernon, TX - d. 1-15-1964
    trombonist: "Eddie Condon"s Jazz Concert"; "Paul Whiteman Show"
    09-01-1901 - Clyde Lucas - Minneapolis, KS - d. 1-15-1982
    bandleader: "Spotlight Bands"; "Rendezvous Music"
    09-10-1902 - Jim Crowley - Chicago, IL - d. 1-15-1986
    football all-american: (One of the Four Horsemen) "Kate Smith Hour"
    09-22-1907 - Sheppard Strudwick - Hillsboro, NC - d. 1-15-1983
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Odyssey of Homer"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-25-1905 - Red Smith - Green Bay, WI - d. 1-15-1982
    sportscaster: "Al Schacht Sports Show"; "Bill Stern Sports News"
    10-05-1919 - Robin Bailey - Hucknall, Nottingham, England - d. 1-15-1999
    actor: "Tales from a Long Room"
    10-07-1913 - Elizabeth Janeway - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-15-2005
    writer: "Information Please"
    11-01-1923 - Victoria de los Angeles - Barcelona, Spain - d. 1-15-2005
    operatic soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
    11-27-1902 - J. Scott Smart - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-15-1960
    actor: Senator Bloat "Fred Allen Show"; Brad Runyon "Fat Man"
    12-02-1898 - Peter Goo Chong - Miu, China - d. 1-15-1985
    actor: "Collier's Hour"; "Eddie Cantor Show"; "This Day Is Ours"
    12-09-1934 - Junior Wells - Memphis, TN - d. 1-15-1998
    harmonica player: Muddy Waters Band
    12-19-1923 - Gordon Jackson - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 1-15-1990
    Freelance actor for the BBC
    12-25-1885 - Doc Kendrick - Texas - d. 1-15-1975
    guitar: "Bob Skyles and His Skyrockets"

    Ron

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    Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:40:10 -0500
    From: Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed];
    To: oldtime radio <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: WOR's Alfred McCann

    interesting story about the 1931 unexpected death of Alfred McCann. His son
    Alfred W. McCann was plunged into taking over the show according to my Mother.
    Glad to say he, and later with wife Dora, kept the show going on WOR at least
    into the 70s. Then their daughter Patsy McCann took over for awhile. Don't
    know what happened to her.

    WOR was know for "dynasties," especially the John Gamblings and their three
    generations.

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