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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2009 : Issue 84
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Cincinnati Convention and Eddie Carr  [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
  5-3 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Re: Studio One                        [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]
  OTR in Reading, PA                    [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  5-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  This month in history: 1928 - Televi  [ [removed]@[removed] ]
  New Book on Fred Friendly Reviewed i  [ seandd@[removed] ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
  One Man never saw the light of May    [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]

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Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 18:22:47 -0400
From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Cincinnati Convention and Eddie Carroll DVD
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As many of you know, the Cincinnati convention had to scramble to find a
new hotel at the last minute when the hotel that was already booked
closed down suddenly.  Bob Burchett, convention organizer, took a big hit
financially because the new hotel was substantially more expensive.
To help cover his extra expenses, Bob is offering a special DVD to those
who will donate to keep the Cincinnati convention alive.  Please read how
you can help, and get this unique DVD in the process, here:

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Thanks,
---Dan Hughes  

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Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 18:45:04 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  5-3 births/deaths

May 3rd births

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NORMAN CORWIN!!

05-03-1874 - Louis Dean - Wilmington, DE - d. 4-8-1933
announcer: "Stoopnagle and Budd"
05-03-1880 - Horace Murphy - Finley, TN - d. 1-20-1975
actor: Buckskin Blodgett "Red Ryder"
05-03-1890 - Nick Dawson - Vineland, NJ - d. 12-28-1957
actor: "Dangerous Paradise"; "Follow the Man"
05-03-1892 - Beulah Bondi - Chicago, IL - d. 1-11-1981
actor: "Free World Theatre"; "NBC University Theatre"
05-03-1897 - Charlie Lung - England - d. 6-22-1974
actor: Paul Sycamore "You Can't Take It with You"; "Wild Bill Hickok";
"Escape"
05-03-1897 - Larry Puck - d. 10-26-1969
producer: "Arthur Godfrey Time" Was one of Godfrey's many firings
05-03-1898 - Golda Meir - Kiev, Russia - d. 12-8-1978
israeli prime minister: "Meet the Press"
05-03-1898 - John Roy - d. 5-31-1985
actor: Roy Calvert "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
05-03-1899 - George H. Combs - Lee's Summit, MO - d. 11-29-1977
congressman, commentator: "Now You Decide"; "Spotlight, New York"
05-03-1902 - Jack Larue - NYC - d. 1-11-1984
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-03-1902 - Walter Slezak - Vienna,  Austria - d. 4-21-1983
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Best Plays"; "Studio One"; "Columbia
Workshop"
05-03-1903 - Bing Crosby - Tacoma, WA - d. 10-14-1977
singer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
05-03-1905 - James Nusser - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-8-1979
actor: "Gunsmoke"
05-03-1905 - Sebastian Shaw - Holt, England - d. 12-23-1994
actor: "For Elise"
05-03-1905 - William Brown Meloney - NYC - d. 5-4-1971
writer: "Claudia and David"
05-03-1906 - Anna Roosevelt - Hyde Park, NY - d. 12-1-1975
Daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On her mother's programs
05-03-1906 - Mary Astor - Quincy, IL  - d. 9-25-1987
actor: Mary Christmas "Merry Life of Mary Christmas"
05-03-1907 - Degar Lustgarten - Manchester, England - d. 12-15-1978
author: "The Burden Mystery"
05-03-1907 - Earl Wilson - Rockford, OH - d. 1-16-1987
columnist: "Earl Wilson's Broadway Column"
05-03-1909 - Fort Pearson - d. 2-19-1989
announcer: "Beat the Band"; "Queen for a Day"; "Hoosier Hot Shots"
05-03-1910 - Curt Massey - Midland, TX - d. 10-21-1991
singer: "Show Boat"; "Curt Massey Show"
05-03-1910 - Norman Corwin - Boston, MA
writer, director: "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Twenty-Six by Corwin"
05-03-1911 - Yank Lawson - Trenton, MO - d. 2-18-1995
trumpet: "The Bob Crosby Show"
05-03-1919 - Betty Comden - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-23-2006
writer, actor: "Revuers"
05-03-1919 - Doris Rich - Canada - d. 5-18-1971
actor: Hannah O'Leary" Houseboat Hannah"; Miss Daisey "Portia Faces
Life"
05-03-1919 - Pete Seeger - NYC
folk singer, songwriter: "Off the Page"
05-03-1920 - John Lewis - LaGrange, IL - d. 3-29-2001
co-founder of "Modern Jazz Quartet": :Modern Jazz Quartet";
"Listener's Digest"
05-03-1920 - Nina Bara - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 8-15-1990
actor: Tonga "Space Patrol"
05-03-1921 - Joe Ames - Malden, MA - d. 12-22-2007
singer: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
05-03-1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson - Detroit, MI - d. 4-12-1989
pugilist: "Destination Freedom"; "Heat It Now"
05-03-1922 - Elizabeth Lawrence - d. 6-11-2000
actor: Francie Brent "Road of Life"
05-03-1924 - Ken Bailey - East Cleveland, OH - d. 3-25-2008
producer: "Morning Midway"; "Breakfast With the Baileys"
05-03-1927 - Rosemary Rice - Montclair, NJ
actor: Betty Cooper "Archie Andrews"; Jill Malone "Young Doctor Malone"
05-03-1928 - Dave Dudley - Spencer, WI - d. 12-22-2003
country singer: "Dave Dudley Trio"

May 3rd deaths

02-02-1920 - Hughie Green - London, England - d. 5-3-1997
host: "Opportunity Knocks"
02-19-1899 - Carl Matthews - Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-3-1959
actor: "The Cuckoo Hour"
02-26-1914 - Robert Alda - NYC - d. 5-3-1986
singer: "Rudy Vallee Presents the Drene Show"
03-05-1906 - Aileen Carlyle - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-3-1984
vocalist: "Spike Jones and His City Slickers"
03-12-1923 - Walter Schirra - Hackensack, NJ - d. 5-3-2007
astronaut: "Meet the Press"
03-16-1894 - Elizabeth Lennox - Ionia, MI - d. 5-3-1992
singer: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "American Album of Familiar
Music"
03-22-1916 - George Wyle - NYC - d. 5-3-2003
songwriter: "Alan Young"
04-11-1913 - Millie Good - Mt. Carmel, IL - d. 5-3-1993
singer: (Girls of the Golden West) "National Barn Dance"
04-20-1904 - Bruce Cabot - Carlsbad, NM - d. 5-3-1972
actor: "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; "Hollywood on the Air"
05-02-1902 - Erin O'Brien-Moore - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-3-1979
actor: Elsa Banning "Big Sister"
05-02-1905 - Sidney Skolsky - NYC - d. 5-3-1983
newspaper columnist: "Songs by Arlen, Stories by Skolsky"; "Bromo
Seltzer Program"
05-30-1926 - Christine Jorgenson - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-3-1989
actor: "Whatever Became [removed]"
06-14-1914 - Nat Polen - NYC - d. 5-3-1981
actor: Edward McCormick "Indictment" "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
07-04-1902 - George Murphy - New Haven, CT - d. 5-3-1992
actor, emcee: "Let's Talk Hollywood"; "Hollywood Calling"
08-02-1904 - John McClain - Ohio - d. 5-3-1967
writer: "Hollywood Hotel"
08-13-1908 - Gene Raymond - NYC - d. 5-3-1998
actor: John J. Malone "Amazing Mr. Malone"; "Witness"; "Hollywood Hotel"
08-14-1914 - Bill Downs - Kansas City, MO - d. 5-3-1978
newscaster: CBS Moscow 1942
10-04-1912 - Lynne "Angel" Harvey - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-3-2008
producer: (Wife of Paul Harvey) "The Rest of the Story"
10-11-1936 - Billy Higgins - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-3-2001
jazz drummer: "Jazz Alive"
10-30-1908 - Patsy Montana - Hot Springs, AK - d. 5-3-1996
yodeling country singer: (Prairie Ramblers) "Nationial Barn Dance"
10-30-1927 - Joe Adcock - Coushatta, LA - d. 5-3-1999
baseball player: "Baseball: An Action History"
11-30-1903 - Frank Worth - Debrezin, Hungary - d. 5-3-1990
orchestra leader: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"; Those Websters"

Ron

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Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 18:45:08 -0400
From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Studio One

On 5/3/2009 Charles Brentner wrote:
Actually Studio One wasn't dropped in 1948 by CBS.  It just made the
move from radio to television. It apparently ran (on tv) til Sept. of 1958.

[quote]1947   Studio One on CBS was first broadcast. The show was
full of great stars, but no sponsors. CBS dropped Studio One after a
year on radio. [/quote]

Studio One also had no sponsor on TV initially before acquiring a
powerful spokesperson who many of us still remember. Studio One's
transition to TV was part of the CBS "hurry-up and get a TV network
going" program following the overwhelmingly successful NBC broadcast
of the 1947 World Series. Studio One was broadcast live from New York
until January 1958 when it was moved to Hollywood and the name
changed to Studio One in Hollywood.

 From one of the books in my library:

quote
STUDIO ONE (Dramatic Anthology)
FIRST TELECAST: November 7, 1948
LAST TELECAST: September 29, 1958

BROADCAST HISTORY:
Nov 1948-Mar 1949, CBS Sun 7:30-8:30
Mar 1949-May 1949, CBS Sun 7:00-8:00
May 1949-Sep 1949, CBS Wed 10:00-11:00
Sep 1949-Sep 1958, CBS Mon 10:00-11:00

Studio One had gone on the air without a sponsor, but it gained one
in Westinghouse Electric in early 1949. On Westinghouse's third
telecast the commercials were done by an actress named Betty Furness.
She went on to become the most recognized and famous commercial
spokesperson in the history of television. She would remain with the
series until its cancellation in 1958 and continued with its
successor, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. The picture of her
demonstrating a range or opening a refrigerator and the slogan "You
Can Be Sure if It's Westinghouse" were ingrained with a generation of
Americans.
end-quote

Don

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Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 18:45:11 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OTR in Reading, PA

Someone beat me to it. I was planning to ask about the event as I received an
orange and green brochure from my father-in-law. Who is putting on the radio
recreation and does anyone know what drama or comedy is going to be performed?
Martin

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Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 18:45:13 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  5-4 births/deaths

May 4th births

05-04-1874 - Frank Conrad - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 12-11-1941
"the father of radio broadcasting" Started radio station KDKA in his
garage
05-04-1886 - Earl Lee - Topeka, KS - d. 6-2-1955
actor: Fred Thompson "One Man's Family"
05-04-1886 - Shelton Brooks - Amesburg, Ontario - d. 9-6-1975
composer, author, pianist: "Cavalcade of Music"
05-04-1896 - Dr. Frank Baxter - Camden, NJ - d. 1-18-1982
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
05-04-1902 - Al Dexter - Jacksonville, TX - d. 1-28-1984
singer, songwriter: (Pistol Packn' Mama) "Command Performance"
05-04-1902 - Dudley Williamson - Above Discovery, AK - d. 5-2-1948
emcee: "What's the Name of the Song?"; "Queen for a Day"
05-04-1903 - Elmer Leyden - Davenport, IA - d. 6-30-1973
football player: "One of the Four Horseman" "Information Please"
05-04-1903 - Luther Adler - NYC - d. 12-8-1984
actor: Peter Gentle "Mystery Without Murder"; "Greatest Story Ever
Told (1938-39)"
05-04-1904 - Gray Gordon - d. 7-23-1976
bandleader: "The Magic Key of RCA"
05-04-1909 - Ed Max - Georgia - d. 10-17-1980
actor: Mr. Gallagher "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen"
05-04-1909 - Howard Da Silva - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-16-1986
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Forecast"; "Suspense"
05-04-1912 - Louis Brown - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-7-2007
composer/conductor: "The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Show"
05-04-1913 - Carroll Moore, Jr. - Somerville, MA - d. 2-5-1977
writer: "The Henry Morgan Show"
05-04-1913 - Joe Aleman - d. 1-2-1996
disk jockey: KPRL Paso Robles, California
05-04-1916 - Jean Carroll - Toledo, OH - d. 7-6-1990
comedienne: "The Sealtest Village Store"
05-04-1919 - Thomas Madigan - NYC - d. 7-8-2004
writer, director: "The Big Guy"
05-04-1921 - Patsy Garrett - Atlantic City, NJ
singer: "Broadway Matinee"; "Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne Show"
05-04-1923 - Erik Sykes - Oldham, Lancashire, England
actor, writer: "Entertaining Archie"
05-04-1923 - Godfrey Quigley - Jerusalem - d. 9-7-1994
producer: "The Kennedys of Castleross"
05-04-1924 - Gene Klaven - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-8-2004
new york morning personalty: "Klaven and Finch"; "Klaven in the Morning"
05-04-1924 - Merrill Mael - d. 10-16-2000
actor: Uncle Fletcher "Vic and Sade"
05-04-1927 - Terry Scott - Watford, England - d. 7-26-1994
actor: "Junior Choice"; "Great Scott, It's Maynard"; "Hugh and I"
05-04-1929 - Audrey Hepburn - Brussels, Belguim - d. 1-20-1993
actor: "[removed] Story"; "Stagestruck"
05-04-1930 - Gordon Gould - Chicago, IL
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-04-1938 - Gillian Tindall - London, England
author: "A Little Touch of Death"

May 4th deaths

02-05-1893 - Carlton Coon - Rochester, MN - d. 5-4-1932
bandleader: (Coon-Sanders Nighthawks) "Florsheim Frolic"
05-02-1916 - Two Ton Baker - Chicago, IL - d. 5-4-1975
singer, pianist: "Tip Top Lunch Program"
05-03-1905 - William Brown Meloney - NYC - d. 5-4-1971
writer: "Claudia and David"
06-10-1898 - Norman Brokenshire - Murcheson, Ontario, Canada - d.
5-4-1965
announcer: "Music That Satisfies"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
06-14-1891 - Elaine Sterne Carrington - NYC - d. 5-4-1958
creator-writer: "Pepper Young's Family"; "Rosemary"; "When a Girl
Marries"
06-19-1897 - Moe Howard - Bensonhurst, NY - d. 5-4-1975
original stooge: (Three Stooges) "Whatever Became of . . . .?"
10-23-1931 - Diana Dors - Swindon, Wiltshire, England - d. 5-4-1984
actor: "Earplay"
10-28-1915 - Alwyn Kurts - Perth, Western Australia - d. 5-4-2000
performer: "Raising a Husband"
11-13-1925 - Ed Backey - Havre de Grace, MD - d. 5-4-1988
disk jockey: WTOW Towson, Maryland

Ron

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Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 18:45:40 -0400
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  This month in history: 1928 - Television arrives

Just ran across this note from the April/May 2003 issue of 'American
Heritage' magazine, online at [removed]
The a

1928 75 Years Ago
What's On Tonight?
By Frederic D. Schwarz

On May 11 radio station WGY, in Schenectady, New York, began America's first
regularly scheduled television broadcasts. The programs lasted from 1:30 to
2:00 [removed] on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Most of the viewers were on
the technical staff at nearby General Electric, which had designed the system
and was using the broadcasts to refine its equipment, but a handful of
hobbyists who had built their own sets were also able to watch. Those who
tuned in had to make constant adjustments, turning two knobs at once to keep
the blurry picture discernible on their three-inch-square screens.

Although television was still in the experimental stage, it was making rapid
strides. Before the decade was out, British researchers would demonstrate
prototypes of color and three-dimensional television and make transatlantic
broadcasts. The technology was already mature enough that by the end of 1928,
17 more stations around the country began scheduled broadcasts.

At first the programs they showed were truly about nothing, designed to test
the apparatus rather than attract viewers. WGY showed outdoor scenes, skyline
shots, and men boxing. Over the next year or two some stations began
occasionally showing movies, short plays, and vaudeville-style acts. Lee de
Forest, the pioneering inventor of the Audion electron tube, envisioned
wondrous things from the new medium: "thrilling lectures on solar physics"
and perhaps "a weekly talk by some earnest police traffic officer" about
highway safety.

Unfortunately, the television boom was over by 1932. The stock-market crash,
the rise of commercial radio, and the waning of the novelty all had something
to do with it. More fundamentally, however, the television technology of the
day had reached its limit, and it wasn't good enough.

Television works by breaking a picture into horizontal strips, known as
lines, and scanning the pattern of light and darkness in each one
successively. Most 1920s systems used a rapidly spinning wheel with a spiral
pattern of holes near its edge; as the wheel spun, the holes scanned the
picture from side to side. The best this system could ever hope to achieve
was about 60 lines, which looked impressive only to people who had never seen
television before. The development of fully electronic, nonmechanical
scanning, which today delivers 525-line pictures, would be necessary before
broadcast television took off again, for good this time, in the late 1940s.

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Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 18:45:54 -0400
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  New Book on Fred Friendly Reviewed in Wall
 Street Journal

Ralph Engleman's new book "Friendlyvision" gets a favorable review from The
Wall Street Journal in the May 2 edition, online here:
[removed].  The reviewer
positions it as a useful corrective to the suspect positioning of Friendly in
the recent George Clooney movie about Edward R. Murrow.

Part of the review deals with Friendly's journalistically suspect practice of
asking newsmakers re-record their live statements if he didn't get good
enough sound for "I Can Hear It Now."  Charles DeGaulle was one who turned
him down in 1940.

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 18:46:01 -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," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The
Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in
high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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=======================================

SAME TIME, SAME STATION

THE AMAZING MR. MALONE
Episode 6    6-29-51    "Handsome Is As Handsome Does"
NBC Sustained Fridays 9:00 - 9:30 Pm
Stars: George Petrie
Created By: Craig Rice
Announcers: Arthur Gary, Fred Collins
Writer: Eugene Wang

THEATER [removed]
Episode 23    4-14-49    "Petticoat Fever"
Stars: Jackie Gleason, Jane Pickens, Golden Gate Quartet, Ralph Forbes,
Melvyn Douglas, Nancy Coleman
Host: Vinton Freedley
ABC American National Theater And Academy
Thursdays 8:30 - 9:00 pm

LUX RADIO THEATER
Episode 242    12-18-39   "Four Daughters"
Stars: John Garfield, The Four Lane Sisters: (Priscilla Lane, Rosemary
Lane, Leota Lane, Lola Lane), Jeffrey Lynn, Wallis Clark, Clara
Blandick, Hal K. Dawson, Lou Merrill, Harry Humphrey, Emma Redding
==================================

HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

THE LINEUP
(CBS) 10/08/52 Bill Johnstone stars with Raymond Burr, Virginia Gregg
and a swell cast in a kidnapping story.

MY FRIEND IRMA
(CBS/AFRS) 05/07/51 Marie Wilson is Irma. Complex plot with dogs and
secretaries looking for help.

HERE'S TO VETERANS
(VA Synd) 1950 Frankie Carle and His Orch. >From a 1st gen. disk. Franie
introduces a brand-new song.

EXTRA
The NET does a spoof on KRAFT Theatre commercials. "The Heritage 4th of
July Loaf" using lots of good KRAMP lube!!
====================================

THE GLOWING DIAL

  Red Ryder - "The Range War"
originally aired February 26, 1942 on the Blue Network West
Starring: Reed Hadley, Franklin Bresee, Art Gilmore announcing.
Possible Sponsor: Langendorf Bread (no commercials or sponsorship heard)

Gunsmoke - "The Buffalo Hunter"
originally aired October 24, 1953 on CBS
Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Richard Beals, Tom Tulley, John
Dehner, Jack Edwards, Ken Peters announcing.
Sponsors: Sugar Krinkles and Post Toasties

The Six Shooter - "Red Lawson's Revenge"
originally aired October 25, 1953 on NBC
Starring: James Stewart, Shirley Mitchell, Leoni Ledoux, Paul Richards,
Barney Phillips, Hal Gibney announcing.
Sustained

Frontier Gentleman - "The Cat Man"
originally aired August 10, 1958 on CBS
Starring: John Dehner, Martha Wentworth, Charlotte Lawrence, Joseph
Kearns, Barney Phillips, Harry Bartell, Bud Seawell announcing.
Sustained

Have Gun, Will Travel - "The Monster Of Moon Ridge"
originally aired March 8, 1959 on CBS
Starring: John Dehner, Ben Wright, Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Christine,
Jess Kirkpatrick, Jeanne Bates, Hugh Douglas announcing.
Sponsors: Fitch Dandruff Remover Shampoo and the Rambler Ambassador V-8
==================================

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, 5 May 2009 18:46:38 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  One Man never saw the light of May

5/8

1959   The final broadcast of One Man's Family was heard on NBC after
being on the air 27 years.

A lingering misconception that refuses to die.  I checked multiple newspaper
radio listings when preparing my 2008 release "This Day in Network Radio"
([removed]) in an effort
to prove that the durable drama ended a fortnight earlier, April 24, 1959,
and not the date most usually trustworthy scholars acknowledge.  All of
those newspapers proved to my satisfaction (as has a handful of OTR
acamedicians also surmised) that May 8 is simply wrong.  I've shared this
information previously but a date is hard to deny once it's in print
numerous times.  (I, too, was guilty of that misrepresentation in my
earliest work.)  For the record:  the show left the air two weeks sooner
than most think.

Jim Cox

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