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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 129
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Orson Welles Free Speech          [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]
      Tony Marvin et al                     [ Fass Martin <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
      8-11 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 12-18 Aug  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      8-12 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      Captain Midnight's 'Code' Messages    [ Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed] ]
      Documentary about radio jamming duri  [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      Re: Radio's Music Organs              [ Conrad Binyon <cbinyon@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:03:00 -0400
    From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Orson Welles Free Speech

    On 8/9/2012 11:15 PM, Rick Keating wrote

>     I'd have to listen to it to confirm, but it may be Norman Corwin's "We Hold
>     These Truths", which aired Dec. 15, 1941 and commemorated the 150th
>     anniversary of the Bill of Rights.

    The program mentioned by Rick Keating is available on the Internet
    Archive at:

        [removed]

    Don

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    Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:03:11 -0400
    From: Fass Martin <watchstop@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Tony Marvin et al

    Who would receive YOUR award as the network radio announcer with the niftiest
    regionalisms in some of his words?

    My own prize goes to Tony Marvin as he proudly introduces "CASEY, CRIME
    PHOTOGRAPHA."

    I would give second place, or at least Honorable Mention, to Ken Roberts,
    except that at least in the example of one "Casey" program I just heard, he
    pronounces that final consonant like a man out of the West Coast.

    How nice to imagine that nobody ever (evah) tried to do a Pygmalion
    transformation on Tony Marvin.  But what about others?  Has anybody
    researched this?

    --Martin Fass

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    Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:03:16 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-11 births/deaths

    August 11th births

    08-11-1867 - Joe Weber - NYC - d. 5-10-1940
    comedian: (Weber and Fields) "The Eveready Hour"; "George Jessel Show"
    08-11-1868 - Edgar Norton - London, England - d. 2-6-1953
    actor: "I Love A Mystery"
    08-11-1891 - Helen Broderick - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-25-1959
    actor: (Mother of Broderick Crawford) "Shell Chateau"
    08-11-1900 - Norma Shearer - Montreal, Canada - d. 6-12-1983
    actor: "Everyman's Theatre"; "Louella Parsons"
    08-11-1902 - Lloyd Nolan - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-27-1985
    actor: Johnny Strange "Results Inc."; Martin Kane "Martin Kane,
    Private Eye"
    08-11-1904 - Jess Stacy - Bird's Point, MO - d. 1-5-1994
    jazz piano player: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
    08-11-1907 - Andrew Allan - Arbroath, Scotland - d. 1-15-1974
    writer of radio plays: "Mistress Nell"
    08-11-1908 - Russell Procope - d. 1-21-1981
    clarinetist, saxophonist: "Duke Ellington and His Orchestra";
    "Ellington at Newport"
    08-11-1910 - Perfecto Barbosa - d. 8-17-1989
    newscaster: KMAC San Antonio, Texas
    08-11-1911 - Jerome Chodorow - NYC - d. 9-12-2004
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-11-1912 - Raphael David Blau - d. 3-31-1996
    writer: "Theatre Five"
    08-11-1913 - Edith Oliver - NYC - d. 2-23-1998
    actor: "Crime Doctor"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"
    08-11-1915 - Bernard "Buddy" Arnold - NYC - d. 3-30-2004
    writer: "Your Hit Parade"
    08-11-1915 - Berne Surrey - d. 8-25-1992
    sound effects: "Suspense (Sorry, Wrong Number)"; "Whistler"; "Sam Spade"
    08-11-1915 - Jean Parker - Deer Lodge, MT - d. 11-30-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-11-1923 - Tommy Hanlon - Parkersburg, WV - d. 10-10-2003
    actor: "Orson Welles Mercury Theatre"
    08-11-1925 - Mike Douglas - Chicago, IL - d. 8-11-2006
    singer: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    08-11-1928 - Arlene Dahl - Minneapolis, MN
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre". Hollywood Stars on Stage"; "Philip Morris
    Playhouse"
    08-11-1937 - Anna Massey - Thakeham, West Sussex, England - d. 7-3-2011
    actress: "The Sceptred Isle"
    08-11-1939 - Jack Hobbs - Shawneetown, IL
    disk jockey, news director, announcer: "Time Out"

    August 11th deaths

    01-24-1862 - Edith Wharton - NYC - d. 8-11-1937
    author: Many of her stories were adapted for radio.
    04-01-1917 - "Wee" Bonnie Baker - Orange, TX - d. 8-11-1990
    singer: "Your Hit Parade"
    05-26-1913 - Peter Chushing - Kenley, England - d. 8-11-1994
    actor: "Aliens in the Mind"
    06-24-1904 - Phil Harris - Linton, IN - d. 8-11-1995
    bandleader, singer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"
    06-29-1914 - Rafael Kubelik - Bychory, Czech Republic - d. 8-11-1996
    conductor: "Musicians Off Stage"
    07-14-1898 - Louise Lorimer - d. 8-11-1995
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Short Story"
    08-05-1918 - Tom Drake - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-11-1982
    actor: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Proudly We
    Hail"
    08-10-1912 - Wilbur Stark - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-11-1995
    producer: "Movie Matinee"; "Teen Canteen"
    08-11-1925 - Mike Douglas - Chicago, IL - d. 8-11-2006
    singer: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    09-08-1913 - Patricia 'Honeychile' Wilder - Macon, GA - d. 8-11-1995
    actor: "Maxwell House Showboat"; "Atlantic Family"; [removed] Jive"
    12-05-1907 - Reid Kilpatrick - Michigan - d. 8-11-1983
    host: "Quiz of Two Cities"
    12-14-1932 - George Furth - Chicago, IL - d. 8-11-2008
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    12-19-1924 - Rex Barney - Omaha, NE - d. 8-11-1997
    baseball color man: "Game of the Day"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:03:24 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 12-18 August

     From Those Were The Days

    8/12

    1937   Comedian Red Skelton got his first taste of network radio as he
    appeared on the Rudy Vallee Show on NBC.

    8/13

    1912   St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, PA was granted the first
    experimental radio license by the [removed] Department of Commerce.

    8/14

    1933   WLW in Cincinnati, OH premiered Ma Perkins. Just four months
    later, Ma moved to WMAQ in Chicago and was heard over the entire NBC
    network. Virginia Payne was 23 years old when she started in the title
    role. Ma Perkins operated a lumberyard in Rushville Center. Her children
    were Evey, Fay and John (who was killed in the war). One of the other
    characters in the show was Shuffle Shober. Virginia Payne played Ma
    Perkins for 27 years and 7,065 episodes.

    1942   Garry Moore hosted a new program on NBC. The Show Without a Name
    was an effort to crack the morning show dominance of Arthur Godfrey
    (CBS) and Don McNeil's Breakfast Club (ABC). A prize of $500 was offered
    to name the show and Someone came up with the title, Everything Goes.

    1945   CBS began the series, Columbia Presents Corwin. Orson Welles did
    a special reading about the fall of Japan, titled, Fourteen August.

    8/15

    1911   Procter & Gamble Company of Cincinnati, OH introduced Crisco
    hydrogenated shortening.  (Where would all those shows have been with
    Crisco as a sponsor?  And remember, its digestible!  ed)

    8/16

    1922   WEAF began broadcasting from new studios atop the Western
    Electric Building in New York City.

    1939   Lights Out, radio's "ultimate horror show," was heard for the
    last time on NBC. In 1942, Arch Obler brought the show back to life on
    CBS. The show's most familiar trademark, guaranteed to put you under the
    covers on a dark night was, "Lights out, everybody!", followed by 12
    chimes of a clock.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:03:29 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-12 births/deaths

    August 12th births

    08-12-1881 - Cecil B. DeMille - Ashfield, MA - d. 1-21-1959
    host: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-12-1887 - Gus Van - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-12-1968
    comedian: (Van and Schenck) "Eveready Hour"; "Sinclair Wiener Minstrels"
    08-12-1888 - Eric Snowden - England - d. 6-27-1979
    actor: John H. Watson "Sherlock Holmes"; Alvin "Parties at Pickfair"
    08-12-1892 - Alfred Lunt - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-3-1977
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Treasury
    Star Parade"
    08-12-1895 - Carol DeAngelo - Rome, Italy - d. 1-3-1962
    actor, director: "We Love and Learn"; "The Jack Benny Program"
    08-12-1897 - Bob Emery - Abington, MA - d. 7-18-1982
    host: "The Small Fry Club"; "This Wonderful World"
    08-12-1898 - Oscar Homolka - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-27-1978
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-12-1904 - Kay Campbell - d. 5-27-1985
    actor: Evey Perkins Fitz "Ma Perkins"
    08-12-1907 - Joe Besser - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-1-1988
    comedian: ("No so faaaast! . . . oh, you craaaaze you!) "Jack Benny
    Program"
    08-12-1909 - Nat Asherton - NYC - d. 1-4-1987
    composer/pianist: Leo Reisman Orchestra, Lester Lanin Orchestra
    08-12-1911 - Dr. Olan Downes - West Roxbury, MA - d. 12-26-2001
    musicologist: "Texaco Metropolitan Opera"; "New York Philharmonic"
    08-12-1911 - Jane Wyatt - Campgaw, NJ - d. 10-20-2006
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Great Plays"; "[removed] Steel Hour"
    08-12-1912 - Sam Fuller - Worcester, MA - d. 10-30-1997
    producer, director: "The Aldrich Family"; "The Jack Carson Show"
    08-12-1914 - Guy Sorel - d. 4-5-1994
    actor: Larry Noble "Backstage Wife"
    08-12-1916 - Dorothy Allen - Oakland, CA - d. 4-25-1996
    singer: "Bob Crosby Show"; "Shep Fields Orchestra"
    08-12-1917 - Ebba Haslund - Seattle, WA - d. 7-10-2009
    writer: "Himmelsk Dilemma"
    08-12-1919 - Peter Luke - St. Albans, England - d. 1-23-1995
    writer: "The Other Side of the Hill"
    08-12-1921 - Marjorie Reynolds - Buhl, ID - d. 2-1-1997
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Silver Theatre"
    08-12-1926 - John Derek - Hollywood, CA - d. 5-22-1998
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-12-1927 - Porter Wagoner - West Plains, MO - d. 10-28-2007
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    08-12-1929 - Buck Owens - Sherman, TX - d. 3-25-2006
    singer: "Here's to Veterans"
    08-12-1929 - Nancy Flannery - Bawler, South Australia
    writer: "Martina's Guinea Pigs"

    August 12th deaths

    01-06-1913 - Loretta Young - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 8-12-2000
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Four Star Playhouse"
    01-26-1919 - Jan Bart - Poland - d. 8-12-1971
    traveled with Major Bowes for 7 years, had his own radio show
    02-08-1904 - Charles Sears - Hoopeston, IL - d. 8-12-1987
    tenor: "National Barn Dance"; "Musical Memories"
    02-10-1872 - Marguerite Wells - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-12-1959
    president of the national league of women's voters: "Commado Mary"
    03-13-1873 - Nellie Revell - Springfield, IL - d. 8-12-1958
    commentator: "Neighbor Nell"; "Meet the Artist"
    04-13-1932 - Jack Danon - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-12-1996
    singer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    04-20-1900 - Reed Kennedy - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-12-1952
    vocalist: "Gulf Headliners"; "The Song Shop"
    05-16-1905 - Henry Fonda - Grand Island, NE - d. 8-12-1982
    actor: "Eyes Aloft"; "Romance"; "Suspense"
    05-28-1912 - Tom Scott - d. 8-12-1961
    folk singer, writer: "American School of the Air"; "Golden Gate
    Quartet Sings"
    06-06-1875 - Thomas Mann - Lubeck, Germany - d. 8-12-1955
    writer: Had works adapted for "Treasury Star Parade"
    06-16-1924 - Ernie Johnson - Brattleboro, VT - d. 8-12-2011
    baseball commentator for the Atlanta Braves nee Milwaukee Braves
    06-18-1917 - Ross Elliott - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-12-1999
    actor: "Mercury Theatre"
    07-06-1925 - Merv Griffin - San Mateo, CA - d. 8-12-2007
    singer: "San Francisco Sketchbook/Merv Griffin Show"
    07-07-1911 - Ruth Ford - Hazelhurst, MS - d. 8-12-2009
    actor: "Mercury Theatre"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-20-1918 - Henry Leff - NYC - d. 8-12-2007
    actor: Ray Mallard "Candy Matson, YU2-8209"
    08-25-1896 - Dick Ryan - Connecticut - d. 8-12-1969
    actor: "The Nebbs"
    09-05-1912 - John Cage - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-12-1992
    composer: "The Columbia Workshop"
    09-09-1927 - "Mary" Olive Major - Santa Barbara County, CA - d.
    8-12-1998
    vocalist: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    09-25-1894 - John Howard Lawson - NYC - d. 8-12-1977
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-01-1905 - Wallace Magill - d. 8-12-1973
    producer, director: "The Telephone Hour"
    10-27-1896 - Eric Dressler - NYC - d. 8-12-1978
    actor: "Scattergood Baines"; "Young Widdr Brown"
    12-10-1941 - Kyu Sakamoto - Kawasaki, Japan - d. 8-12-1985
    singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:03:37 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[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 Theatre," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
    Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Charlie St George's "Make Believe
    Ballroom Time" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."  Streamed in
    high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
    [removed]
    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
    [removed]
    Check our our Transcription Disc scans at:
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    =======================================

    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    *Elaine and Jerry's*
    *54th Wedding Anniversary*

    AMOS AND ANDY
    Episode 180 10-24-48 "Kingfish & Saphire's 20th Wedding Anniversary"
    CBS Rinso Sundays 7:30 - 8:00 Pm
    Stars: Freman Gosden And Charles Correlln Ernestine Wade, Amanda
    Randolph, Harriett Widmar, Elinor Harriot, Terry Howard, Madeline Lee,
    Lou Lubin, Eddie Green, Johnny Lee

    THE HARDY FAMILY
    12-27-48 "25th Wedding Anniversary"
    Stars: Micky Rooney, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden
    Syndicated By Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

    ON STAGE
    Episode 17 4-30-53 "Happy Wedding Anniversary"
    Stars: Cathy Lewis And Elliot Lewis
    Announcer: George Walsh
    Produced And Directed By: Elliot Lewis
    Music By: Fred Steiner, Lud Gluskin And Ray Noble
    CBS Sustained

    THE BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW
    Episode 23 3-6-40 "GRACIE ALLEN FOR PRESIDENT" Part 2
    This is the second of a 14-part mini series, which we will be airing
    over the next 11 weeks.
    CBS Hinds Honey And Almond Cream Wednesdays 7:30 - 8:00pm
    Stars: George Burns And Gracie Allen
    With: Frank Parker
    Announcer: Truman Bradley
    Music: Ray Noble's Orchestra
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    THE LUX RADIO THEATRE
    (CBS) 03/13/50 "Little Women" starring: June Allyson, Peter Lawford,
    Margaret O'Brien and Janet Leigh.

    LUM :AND ABNER
    (ABC) 05/20/46 Bob Hope comes to Pine Ridge to hire Cedric.
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    Our actor of the Month for August is Jackson Beck.
    We'll hear him in this early version of
    THE CISCO KID
    from 05/13/44 A Ghost For the Cisco Kid. Heard on WOR Mutual.

    Next, a request from Charles Dickens.

    THE CLYDE BEATTY SHOW
    syndicated from Commodore Productions Episode 4, Elephant Stampede.

    STRAIGHT ARROW
    from 05/06/48 Episode (001) Stage from Calvaydos.

    TALES OF THE TEXAS RANGERS
    from 08/12/50 Episode (06) Broken Spur.
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    CLASSICS & CURIOS

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 40

    EDDIE HUBBARD & THE BROWSERS: "GOT A DATE WITH AN ANGEL"

    It's back to the '80's with Eddie and the Browsers for some tunes from
    the '40's like "Got a Date With An Angel" by Les Brown, "Doctor, Lawyer,
    and Indian Chief" by Betty Hutton, "We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn, "I
    Cried for You" by Helen Forrest, and "It's Been a Long Long Time" by
    Lynn Roberts. Performers are wonderful as usual, but this is a special
    chance to hear Lynn Roberts who sometimes is overlooked among great big
    band singers, maybe because she was born the same year I was born (1935)
    and came on the scene as big bands were beginning to become a little
    less popular. Lynn also sang with the Pied Pipers for many years and
    often was away touring in Europe, Japan, and Israel. She began her
    career at the age of 15 with Charlie Spivak and has the distinction of
    being the only girl singer who sang with most of the major band leaders,
    including Vincent Lopez (a year), the Dorseys (5 years), Benny Goodman
    (10 years), Harry James (4 years), and Sammy Kaye (a year and a half).
    More recently she toured with Doc Severinsen whom she had met many years
    earlier while doing commercials in New York. Musician Peter Nero notes
    that "She's still the best ... just sings, no vocal mannerisms ... no
    histrionics, just gets out there and sings like an angel." I mention all
    of this not just because we get to hear Lynn on this show, but also
    because the Browsers challenge us to tell about her career with other
    bands, and my update kind of supplements the shorter answer on the show.
    Besides she is one of my favorite singers, in the same class as "pure"
    singers such as Kitty Kallen, Helen Forrest, and Vaughn Monroe's June
    Hiett Bratone who all sang songs just as the composers wrote them. Other
    Browser questions focus on Betty Hutton's top recording, on a Glenn
    Miller tune called "Slip Horn Drive," on Helen Forrest's first recording
    with Harry James, and on songs that repeat the same word in the title
    but not consecutively, such as "Dream a Little Dream of Me." Early in
    the show Nat King Cole brings "If I Give My Heart to You," and "In the
    Still of the Night" closes the show. So turn your vintage radio on, and,
    as Eddie would say, "Let's go to the 'Whine Cellar' and meet the Browsers."

    As always, much appreciation to Jerry Haendiges Productions for adapting
    the original studio tape for highest quality rebroadcast!
    ====================================

    Make Believe Ballroom Time

    Episode 4

    The year is [removed]
    It's Make Believe Ballroom Time is at Frank Daley's Meadowbrook in Cedar
    Grove, New Jersey. The great Glenn Miller band is here with an
    outstanding [removed] hit Moonlight Serenade is at the top of
    the charts. You'll hear the stats from the year 1939 from the
    [removed] and you'll hear the history of the wonderful
    Meadowbrook Ballroom. Jack Teagarden's new band is also here with a
    young 17 year old Kitty Kallen and in the trumpet section a young
    Charles [removed] know him as Charlie.
    ====================================

    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: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:03:42 -0400
    From: Stephen  A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Captain Midnight's 'Code' Messages

    In late 1948, the Captain Midnight serial aired a series of episodes
    under the theme, "The Return of Ivan Shark."  One was a nearly
    episode-long pitch for the new, 1949 Key-O-Matic Code-O-Graph.  This
    episode survived, as in the 1970s, it was one of the George Garabedian LP
    records of OTR shows.
    In the episode, Captain Midnight instructs Chuck and Joyce to send a
    message using the Pocket Locator to Washington, requesting that Major
    Steele send down a new amphibian [aircraft].
    The message goes out, with the Master Code  setting and the first few
    numbers of the request being heard over the air as the transmission was
    beginning, fading out as the action continued.
    While listening to the recording recently, I wondered what the numbers
    really stood for, so using a Key-O-Matic unit, I deciphered them.
    What was aired comes out to, "message."
    I suspect that the script writers kept that handy in case they wanted to
    have other "messages" in cipher in later programs.

    Stephen Kallis, Jr.
    53 Year Old Mom Looks 33
    The Stunning Results of Her Wrinkle Trick Has Botox Doctors Worried

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    Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:04:22 -0400
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Documentary about radio jamming during the Cold
     War
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    Polskie Radio have added  a documentary to their website ( in English ) about
    radio jamming during the Cold War era. Running time is 50 minutes.
    [removed]

    Cheers ! Graeme ( ORCA/UK )
     .__,[removed],___

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    Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:05:41 -0400
    From: Conrad Binyon <cbinyon@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Radio's Music Organs

    Radio's Music Organs

    Who knows why, but for clarity the broadcasting of information and
    entertainment by the human voice over the ether (atmosphere) (airwaves)
    (upper regions of space) required the sound of something different other than
    that of "dead air" (silence) to  comfortably indicate a pause or passage of
    time between  the transmission of one broadcast from the  completely
    different broadcast audio presentation of a next.  In early radio the
    different sound or sounds selected to indicate a pause usually were music,
    bells or chimes.  The most common of musical sound was the Hammond B-3
    console organ.  It follows logically that the growth of radio broadcasting
    was a boone to the Hammond organ company as well given the many created
    studios wherein a Hammond organ unit was used in the many soap opera
    broadcast and variety shows.  Needless to say was the hiring of the many
    musicians needed to play the units as well.

     As I recall, only NBC in Los Angeles had a Wurlizter grand pipe organ
    located in Studio G.  It was usually played by Paul Carson (google Paul
    Carson, oranist) to supply the musical interludes for Carlton E. Morse's  "I
    Love a Mystery," and "One Man's Family," as well as his own musical show
    "Bridge to Dreamland."  Of course there had to to be other units as well
    situtated at broadcasting sites all over the country.

    Regards,

    Conrad Binyon

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