Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #48
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Date: 2/14/2006 9:08 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 48
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      2-14 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      [removed]                               [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      39 Forever Volume 2 ready for preord  [ "Laura Leff" <president@[removed] ]
      Cincinnati Convention                 [ "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed] ]
      Rochester show                        [ "Jim Murtaugh" <jayeffemm@[removed] ]
      Re: Chanpion                          [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
      The Shadow Editoralizes               [ George Kelly <gkelly1@[removed]; ]
      (Adventures of) Champion              [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Hawaii Calls                          [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
      Book includes OTR horses/riders       [ Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed] ]
      Cincinnati Convention                 [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Jimmy Barton Mystery Revisited        [ Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed] ]
      Bill Forman                           [ JayHick@[removed] ]
      The Lone Ranger's Disguise, etc.      [ Bethany Rutledge <bsr_mmr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:14:23 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-14 births/deaths

    February 14th births

    02-14-1884 - Grace Valentine - Springfield, OH - d. 11-12-1964
    actress: Minnie Grady "Stella Dallas"
    02-14-1894 - Jack Benny - Chicago, IL (Raised: Waukegan, IL) - d.
    12-26-1974
    comedian: "Jack Benny Program"
    02-14-1895 - Nigel Bruce - Ensenada, Mexico - d. 10-8-1953
    actor: Doctor John H. Watson "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
    02-14-1896 - Anson Weeks - Oakland, CA - d. 2-7-1969
    bandleader: "Lucky Strike Show"; "Lady Esther Serenade"; "[removed]
    Coffee Program"
    02-14-1897 - Victor Lindlahr - d. 1-26-1969
    commentator: "Talks on Diet"
    02-14-1900 - Eddie Marr - New Jersey - d. 8-25-1987
    actor: Press Agent "Jack Carson Show"; "Jack Benny Program"; "I Fly
    Anything"
    02-14-1901 - Peggy Allenby - New York, NY - d. 3-23-1966
    actress: Susan Price "David Harun"; Mary Andrews "Archie Andrews"
    02-14-1902 - Stu Erwin - Squaw Valley, CA - d. 12-21-1967
    comedian: Fairchild Finnegan "Phone Again Finnegan"
    02-14-1904 - Jessica Dragonette - Calcutta, India - d. 3-18-1980
    singer: (Queen of Radio) "Philco Hour Theatre of Memories"
    02-14-1905 - Thelma Ritter - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-5-1969
    actress: "Aldrich Family"; "Big Town "; "McGarry and His Mouse"
    02-14-1906 - John Goldwater - New York, NY - d. 2-20-1999
    Created "Archie"
    02-14-1907 - Art Hern - Mannington, WV - d. 8-4-1997
    actor: Ichabod Mudd "Captain Midnight"; "Richard Stone "Today's
    Children"
    02-14-1908 - Lonnie Glosson - Judsonia, AR - d. 3-2-2001
    country music harmonica player: "Grand Ole Opry"
    02-14-1912 - Tyler McVey - Bay City, MI - d. 7-4-2003
    actor: Elwood Giddings "One Man's Family"; Tyler "Glamour Manor"
    02-14-1913 - Mel Allen - Birmingham, AL - d. 6-16-1996
    sportscaster, announcer: "White Owl Sports Smoker"; "Truth or
    Consequences"
    02-14-1916 - Eddie Arcaro - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-14-1997
    jockey: "Pabst Blue Ribbon Sport of Kings"; "Tops In Sports"
    02-14-1921 - Hugh Downs - Akron, OH
    announcer, emcee: "Doctors Today"; "Dave Garroway Show"
    02-14-1922 - Murray "The K" Kaufman - New York, NY - d. 2-22-1982
    disc jockey: "A Tribute to Murray the K"
    02-14-1929 - Bobby Ramsen - New York, NY (Raised: Yonkers, NY)
    actor: "The Eternal Light"; "Let's Pretend"; "Dick Tracy"
    02-14-1931 - Phyllis McGuire - Middletown, OH
    singer: (The McGuire Sisters) "Arthur Godfrey Time"
    02-14-1932 - Brian Kelly - Detroit, MI - d. 2-12-2005
    actor: Started career doing radio commercials in Detroit
    02-14-1934 - Florence Henderson - Dale, IN
    singer: "Coke Time with Eddie Fisher"

    February 14th deaths

    01-08-1914 - Sam Cowling - Jeffersonville, IN - d. 2-14-1983
    singer: (The Three Romeos) "The Breakfast Club"; "Club Matinee"
    02-27-1907 - Kenneth Horne - England - d. 2-14-1969
    comedian: "Round the Horne"; "Ack Ack Beer Beer"; "Beyond Our Ken"
    06-10-1901 - Fritz Loewe - Vienna, Austria - d. 2-14-1988
    composer: "Mitch Miller Show"
    09-06-1911 - Eleazar Lipsky - d. 2-14-1993
    district attorney, writer: "Indictment"
    10-15-1881 - P. G. Wodehouse - Guildford, Surrey, England - d. 2-14-1975
    author: (Jeeves and Wooster) "Forecast"; "Stagestruck"
    12-07-1904 - Bob Brown - New York, NY - d. 2-14-1988
    announcer: "Vic and Sade"; "Quicksilver"; "This Amazing America"

    Ron Sayles
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:10:27 -0500
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  [removed]

    From: Michael Berger  <makiju@[removed];

>     ...Garrison Keillor, impresario, creator  and
>     host of one of radio's longest running programs -- 31
>     years and  counting -- and director Robert Altman are a
>     match made in heaven ... these  two [removed]

    Dear Michael-

    Thanks for the heads-up;  I'm always interested in the Medium crossing over.
    But here follows a big "IMHO"  from this born and bred Midwesterner:

    I've had diminished respect for  Altman ever since the interview in which he
    bragged that he liked to make sure  he was really drunk before he headed into
    the editing room (though I guess that  goes some ways toward explaining why
    I'd always found his films  [removed])

    As for Keillor, I love the fact that he still uses radio  for something other
    than Top 40 and Political Talk- not to mention, in the only  example of this
    that Royal NPR stoops to carry. But I was put off by the essay a  while back
    where he explained the Camp sketches on his variety show by saying  that that
    was the only way Radio Drama could work for a modern audience. Even  with
    this,
    I keep giving PHC chance after chance; but to me, there's a worse  problem:
    Garrison himself has gotten so painfully pretentious, and fatally in  love
    with
    the sound of his own voice, that it sinks the whole ship.

    All  IMHO.

    Best,
    -Craig

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    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:10:41 -0500
    From: "Laura Leff" <president@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  39 Forever Volume 2 ready for preorder

    Hi folks,

    It's [removed] you've all been asking about.  Volume 2 of 39 Forever,
    Second Edition is now available.  Come to [removed] for all the
    details and to order your copy!

    --Laura Leff
    President, IJBFC
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:07:57 -0500
    From: "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Cincinnati Convention

    Rodney Bowcock correctly laments

>     If
>     the Cincinnati convention ceases to exist, we'll see 1/3rd of the annual
>     old-time radio conventions in the country come to an end, and that would be
>     a real shame.

    Sad, but very true! After dropping the ball in 2005, this year is already a
    month and a half old, and not a word from the SPERDVAC board about a 2006
    Convention! In order to reserve a hotel, you need to start about 12 months
    before the fact because weekend spaces are renewed yearly and spaces get
    filled up fast.  SPERDVAC used to be one of the top two OTR organizations,
    before REPS existed.  Bobb Lynes organizes and holds meetings about OTR for
    SPERDVAC, but except for his efforts, SPERDVAC has become an organization
    whose sole purpose is to rent audio and printed materials. If that were not
    bad enough, SPERDVAC's website had a virus! What a shame!

    Now to Cincinnati:  I sometimes am on the computer in the wee hours, when it
    is not appropriate to call friends for information.  Last night I searched
    in vain for the name of the Cincinnati OTR organization, and if I had found
    it, I would have looked for a website. Where is the publicity for the
    Cincinnati Convention?  Why is it the best kept secret?  Under what name is
    their
    their website?

    Stuart

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: The Cincinnati conventioon has no websiet. As Bob makes
    material available, I post it to the Nostalgic Rumblings blog at
    [removed] (the "pre-flyer" is already there, just search for
    "cincy") so add this site to your live bookmarks.  --cfs3]

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    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:30:36 -0500
    From: "Jim Murtaugh" <jayeffemm@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Rochester show

    I asked this question once before, but never received an answer.  I still
    don't know any more than before, so I thought I would try again.  I recently
    heard a few episodes of a show called "The Rochester Show" and also referred
    to as "The Private Life of Rochester", starring Eddie Anderson.  A couple of
    the shows were sponsored by Franco-American spaghetti.  The show was funny
    and, of course, made frequent references to his cheap boss.

    I can't find any reference in Dunning's book about this show.  Does anyone
    know how long it lasted, and what year(s) it was on?

    Thanks for any information you can provide.

    Jim Murtaugh

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    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:05:03 -0500
    From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Chanpion

    Thanks to everyone for responding to my post  concerning Champion. It is much
    appreciated.

    Charlie

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    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:30:33 -0500
    From: George Kelly <gkelly1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Shadow Editoralizes

    In a recent episode of The Shadow on XM, a criminal while awaiting
    execution asked his brother, who was trained as a sniper in the army
    and who emerged from WWII shell shocked, to assassinate those
    responsible for his conviction.

    The brother kills several before the Shadow can stop him.  Twice
    during the show The Shadow expressed empathy for the assassin because
    he was trained as a killer in the army and not properly assimilated
    back into society.

    Was such asides by the Shadow common on this program and was the
    concern expressed by the Shadow an issue following the war?

    George Kelly

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    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:31:21 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  (Adventures of) Champion

    On Monday, February 13, 2006, at 09:15 AM, Charlie wrote:

>     Another obscure, so obscure in fact that I can't  find anything about it at
>     all, not even from the redoubtable John Dunning, is  Champion. I can't even
>     find it on the RadioGoldindex web site. Now, that's what  I call obscure.
>     Invisible might be a better word for it.

    It is neither obscure nor invisible, when you search under the complete
    title.

    Dunning does have a citation for it, as does Goldin.  In Jay
    Hickerson's omnibus, "3rd Revised Ultimate History", he lists the show
    as airing on Mutual from Jan 49 to Nov 49, but not in all regions.  (It
    was not in NYC area, for example.)  There are three surviving episodes
    of this 15 minute kids adventure show, which had Gene Autry's horse in
    it, but not Gene.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL

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    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:31:43 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hawaii Calls

    On Monday, February 13, 2006, at 09:15 AM, Jon F.  wrote:

>     Does anyone know of an existing episode of "Hawaii Calls"?. I still
>     remember the opening vividly when I listened to it as a kid. I teach
>     broadcast to our local high school and would like to use it as a great
>     example of painting pictures with sound!

    There are about 25 surviving episodes of this show. It was on the air
    fairly regularly from 1939 to 1975, except during WW II.   It was
    brought back in 1992 and aired regionally for a few years.

    Most OTR dealers have some copies so finding it can't be that tough.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL

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    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:31:51 -0500
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you may
    listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio
    Theater," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The Glowing
    Dial," Lee Michael's "The RADIO Show" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."
    Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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    =======================================

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    Valentine's Day Special

    THE DANNY KAYE SHOW
    Episode 6    2-10-45    "A Valentine for Jack Benny"
    Stars Danny Kaye, Lionel Stander and Eve Arden

    LIFE WITH LUIGI
    Episode 74    2-14-50    "Valentine's Day At The Pump Room"

    THE HAROLD PEARY SHOW (HONEST HAROLD, THE HOMEMAKER)
    Episode 21    02-14-51    "Mistaken Valentines"

    FAMILY THEATER
    Episode 459   02-08-56    "Funny Valentine"
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    THE CBS RADIO WORKSHOP
    (CBS)    3/3/57"  1489 Words"
    stars William Conrad performing: "The Highwayman" and Robert Browning's
    Sonnet "From the Portugese" - with special music by Jerry Goldsmith.

    THE EDDIE CANTOR SHOW
    (NBC)   5/16/45    - Remote show
    from Marine Base, Camp Pendelton, Oceanside, CA. Special Guest: Hollywood
    star, Marilyn Maxwell.

    BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY
    (MBS)    4/4/39  "The Origin Story" of this long-running kid's daily serial.

    FIVE-MINUTE MYSTERIES
    (Synd.)    Heard 1946 into the 1950's.
    "The Scientific Clue" Who killed the radio commentator's father?
    ====================================

    THE GLOWING DIAL

    The Jack Benny Program - "Orson Welles guest hosts, Phil Returns After 3
    Months"
    originally aired March 14, 1943 on NBC
    Starring: Orson Welles, Dennis Day, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Don Wilson,
    Phil Harris, Frank Nelson, Verna Felton.
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "The Jack Benny Program" was done by
    Jerry Haendiges.

     The Jack Benny Program - "Orson Welles guest hosts, Mary Returns"
    originally aired March 21, 1943 on NBC
    Starring: Orson Welles, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Eddie "Rochester"
    Anderson, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Frank Nelson, Verna Felton.
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "The Jack Benny Program"  was done by
    Jerry Haendiges.

    The Jack Benny Program  - "Orson Welles guest hosts, Too Much Mayonnaise"
    originally aired March 28, 1943 on NBC
    Starring: Orson Welles, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Eddie "Rochester"
    Anderson, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Bill Morrow & Eddie Beloin (Benny's
    writers), Verna Felton.
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "The Jack Benny Program" was done by
    Jerry Haendiges.

    The Jack Benny Program - "Orson Welles guest hosts, Little Red Riding Hood"
    originally aired April 4, 1943 on NBC
    Starring: Orson Welles, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Eddie "Rochester"
    Anderson, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Andy Devine, Bill Morrow & Eddie Beloin
    (Benny's writers), Verna Felton.
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "The Jack Benny Program" was done by
    Jerry Haendiges.

    The Jack Benny Program - "Orson Welles, Jack Returns After a 5 Week Illness"
    originally aired April 11, 1943 on NBC
    Starring: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Eddie
    "Rochester" Anderson, Don Wilson, Frank Nelson, Orson Welles, Verna Felton.
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "The Jack Benny Program"  was done by
    Jerry Haendiges.
    ==================================

    The RADIO Show

    SPEED GIBSON OF THE INTERNATIONAL SECRET POLICE
    Another Speed Gibson Special, as we accelerate the storyline with the next
    four episodes of The Atlantian Syndicate Adventure

    A Word from Our Sponsor:

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    "The Gentleman Of Golf" starring Bill Cosby with Frank Buxton (Syndicated
    for Coca-Cola, 1968)
    ===================================

    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

         Jerry Haendiges

         Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
         The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
         Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:25:42 -0500
    From: Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed];
    To: OTRDIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Book includes OTR horses/riders
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain

    Recent Digest discussion has centered on otr personages and their steeds.
    _Hollywood Hoofbeats_ by Petrine Day Mitchem and Audrey Pavia is a new book
    fans might find of interest. It's about the lives of cinema horses and their
    riders, many with OTR connections.

      BowTie Press  3 Burroughs, Irvine, CA  92618

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    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:09:06 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cincinnati Convention

    Rodney had some good points about the Cincy convention.  To add my own two
    cents:

    The hobby of OTR is made up (in my opinion) of four factors.

    1.  Periodicals (magazine and newsletters)
    2.  OTR Clubs with monthly meetings
    3.  Dealers who sell and collectors who collect
    4.  Annual Conventions

    If any of these four factions suffer, so does the hobby.  If Cincy is no
    more, a big part of the hobby goes away.  There has been a lot of conflict
    behind the scenes with the planning of some OTR conventions and this does
    effect the way conventions are run. I won't go into details but a LOT of
    people talk about how stupid issues and opinions (the conflict) behind the
    scenes effects conventions and it's sad.  It really is sad.  As a friend
    once told me, "this is a hobby, not a religion."

    On the plus side, Burchett and Newman who put the Cincy con together have
    done a superb job with the events, hotel arrangements, etc.  There hasn't
    been any conflict and I am happy to say that both Bobs have stated to me
    that there isn't a "conflict" causing the possible end of the Cincy con -
    it's just that the attendance is dropping, it costs money to put a show on,
    and the fear that they will take a financial loss with future cons if the
    attendance keeps dropping is something they simply cannot handle.  For their
    reasons i can see they are justified.  But if you are within driving
    distance of the Cincinnati OTR convention and can afford even one afternoon,
    please attend.  Meeting the people whose names appear on the postings on
    this Digest is a great way of putting a face to the e-mails.  Everyone is
    just as friendly as the postings on the Digest and I have yet to meet anyone
    who hasn't made a return visit after checking out a convention even once.

    The hotel info for anyone wanting to book a room is 1-513-671-6600

    The dates is April 21 - 22, 2006.

    Bob Burchett's phone number is 1-888-477-9112

    Guests include Bob Hastings, Don Hastings, and many others.

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    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:09:29 -0500
    From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jimmy Barton Mystery Revisited

    Mark Wuellner poses good questions about the elusive actor who portrayed
    "Jimmy Barton" on the golden era radio show, "The Cinnamon Bear."

    The actor remains unidentified despite tracking efforts for the past thirty
    years.

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    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:22:06 -0500
    From: JayHick@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Bill Forman

    Can anyone help Bob?

    I am writing an article on "The Whistler" covering  radio, movies, and TV.  I
    cannot find birth or death info on Bill Forman  who was the voice of the
    Whistler on radio, the TV series and many of the  movies.  Any information
    would
    be greatly appreciated.  Bob Jennings <FabFicBks@[removed];

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    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:26:26 -0500
    From: Bethany Rutledge <bsr_mmr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Lone Ranger's Disguise, etc.

    I'm a brand new fan of the Lone Ranger and am having a
    ball listening to the episodes from 1938. I sampled a
    variety of westerns before deciding to purchase a set
    of LR mp3s and haven't been disappointed in the least!
    It's such a skillfully written show.

    I've gotten some great laughs out of a few things that
    probably weren't meant for that. It seems like the
    Lone Ranger and Tonto are constantly hunched outside
    people's windows - or behind some scrub brush -
    eavesdropping: "Did you hear that, Tonto?" And I can't
    help but wonder if White Feller had to be dispensed
    with becuase something wasn't quite right about a
    Native American character holding the reins on a
    "white feller."

    One pair of characters keeps popping up from time to
    [removed] a pair of Civil War veterans named Hacksaw
    Hastings and Bolivar Bates. Can any of you LR experts
    tell me if they'll continue to show up post-1938? Are
    there any other recurring characters that I'll be
    meeting soon? I think Chief Thunder Cloud has shown up
    a few times, too.

    What kind of disguise does the Lone Ranger use when
    he's "in town"? Does he wear a beard? A mustache? At
    first I thought he must be made up or something, but
    he remarked in a recent episode that he was "taking
    his disguise off" after leaving town. Any ideas?

    Bethany

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