Subject: [removed] Digest V2008 #128
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Date: 5/20/2008 10:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 128
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Born in Pottowatomie                  [ "Harry Machin, Jr." <harbev5@earthl ]
      FOUND IN A BOX                        [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      Let George Do It                      [ Ben Kibler <ben_kibler48309@[removed] ]
      5-20 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      RE: Story origins                     [ Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed]; ]
      The Lone Ranger and Tonto             [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      RE: let george do it                  [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 13:15:58 -0400
    From: "Harry Machin, Jr." <harbev5@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Born in Pottowatomie
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    I was interested to hear that Tonto was a Pattowatomie indian.  I
    was born in Pottowatomie County, Kansas, and of course knew
    about the indians there.  Why the different spelling of the tribal name,
    though, I can't say.  I would hope that when my county was given
    ]its name, the spelling would have been considered correct.
    Harry Machin, Jr.

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    Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 21:39:37 -0400
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  FOUND IN A BOX

    Well here we go.
    The first of  seventy-seven boxes from my vault has yielded many great books
    but the most  interesting is a yellowed copy of
    SUSPENSE MYSTERY  MAGAZINE number 2 from December 1946.
        Cover features photos of Lucille Ball, Joseph  Cotten, Dolores Costello,
    Gene Kelly, Lee J Cobb, Lillian Gish and Alan Ladd as  well as the titles of
    the stories they starred in now in short story form  in this mag.
    If anyone is interested write me off line and  I will send a photo.
    Serious offers only please. I have  had this for more than thirty years and
    had thought it  lost.
    Onwards.
    Michael C. Gwynne

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    Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 21:40:03 -0400
    From: Ben Kibler <ben_kibler48309@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Let George Do It
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    The LGDI series is listed in the Chicago Tribune as having been broadcast on
    Fridays, at 10:45pm on station WBBM starting on June 6, 1952 thru December
    19, 1952, then again on January 11, 1953 and January 18, 1953

      Ben K

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    Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 22:06:46 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-20 births/deaths

    May 20th births

    05-20-1894 - Adela Rogers St. Johns - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-10-1988
    novelist: Commentator on NBC 1936-1937
    05-20-1899 - Stan Lomax - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-26-1987
    sportscaster: "Evening Journal Sports"
    05-20-1899 - Virginia Sale - Urbana, IL - d. 8-23-1992
    actor: Martha "Those We Love"
    05-20-1903 - Bob White - Philadelphia, PA - d. unknown
    actor: Eric Cunningham "Ma Perkins"; Dr. Petrie "Fu Manchu"
    05-20-1906 - Lyda Roberti - Warsaw, Poland - d. 3-12-1938
    actor, singer: Freelance; Sang with Al Jolson two days before her death
    05-20-1908 - James Stewart - Indiana, PA - d. 7-2-1997
    actor: Britt Ponset "Six Shooter"
    05-20-1909 - Jerry Hausner - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-1-1993
    actor: "Lum and Abner"; "Silver Theatre"
    05-20-1911 - Patricia Dunlap - Bloomington, IL
    actor: Betty Fairfield "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy"
    05-20-1911 - Vet Boswell - Birmingham, AL - d. 11-12-1988
    singer: (The Boswell Sisters) "The Boswell Sisters"; "Woodbury Soap
    Show"
    05-20-1912 - Julius Dixon - Barnwell, SC - d. 1-30-2004
    host: "Variety Jive"
    05-20-1916 - William D. Carey - Hollister, CA - d. 1-27-2004
    actor and singer
    05-20-1920 - Dorothy Howe (Virginia Vale) - Dallas, TX - d. 9-14-2006
    actor: "Gateway to Hollywood"
    05-20-1920 - George Gobel - Chicago, IL - d. 2-24-1991
    comedian, actor, singer: (Lonesome George) Jimmy "Tom Mix"
    05-20-1921 - Joel Kane - Los Angeles County, CA - d. 4-20-1993
    writer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    05-20-1921 - Sheldon Gross
    announcer: WFIL Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    05-20-1923 - Edith Fellows - Boston, MA
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-20-1925 - Vic Ames - Malden, MA - d. 1-23-1978
    singer,: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
    05-20-1926 - John Lucarotti - England - d. 11-19-1994
    writer: "Doctor Who"
    05-20-1926 - Miles Davis - Alton, IL - d. 9-29-1991
    sideman: "Billy Eckstien Orchestra"
    05-20-1928 - David Hedison - Providence, RI
    Worked as a radio announcer early in his career
    05-20-1934 - Ken Boyer - Liberty, MO - d. 9-7-1982
    baseball player: "Tops in Sports"
    05-20-1936 - Anthony Zerbe - Long Beach, CA
    actor: "Earplay"
    05-20-1941 - Hal Ross - Montreal, Canada
    announcer: CJQC Quebec City, Canada

    May 20th deaths

    05-19-1931 - Eric Davidson - d. 5-20-1996
    writer: "Tommy Steele Radio Show"
    06-21-1910 - Montie Montana - Wolf Point, MT - d. 5-20-1998
    actor, periennial Rose Parade participant: "All-Star Western Theatre"
    06-30-1920 - Dean Harens - South Bend, IN - d. 5-20-1996
    actor: Arthur Anderson "We, the Abbotts"
    07-07-1919 - Jon Pertwee - Chelsea, England - d. 5-20-1996
    actor: The Doctor "Doctor Who"; Worzel; Gummidge "Worzel Gummidge"
    09-12-1893 - Gen. Lewis B. Hershey - Steuben City, IN - d. 5-20-1977
    head of selective service: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    11-11-1908 - Jerry Devine - Boston, MA - d. 5-20-1994
    producer, director, writer: "Mr. District Attorney"; "This Is Your FBI"
    11-28-1917 - Elliott Lewis - NYC - d. 5-20-1990
    actor, director: Frankie Remley "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"; "On
    Stage"; "Mr. Aladdin"
    11-xx-1936 - Ingrid Hafner - London, England - d. 5-20-1994
    actor: "The Butcher, the Baker"
    12-06-1909 - Lyn Murray - London, England - d. 5-20-1989
    conductor: "Chesterfield Presents"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Ford Theatre"
    12-24-1914 - Abram S. Ginnes - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-20-2006
    adapter: "The Big Story"
    12-25-1904 - Sidney Fine - Waterbury, CT - d. 5-20-2002
    pianist, arranger: Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Dinah Shore

    Ron Sayles
    Resident expert birthologist and necrologist

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    Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 05:25:50 -0400
    From: Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RE: Story origins

>     A LENGTH OF ROPE by Chester S. geier

    Chester S. Geier's "A Length of Rope" was published in the April 1941 issue
    of UNKNOWN FANTASY FICTION, published by the good folks at Street & Smith.

    Randy

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    Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 05:26:38 -0400
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Lone Ranger and Tonto

>     Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 13:06:31 -0400
>     From: Cnorth6311@[removed]

>     Ever wonder  why, if no one knew who the Ranger was, he couldn't
>     take off his mask, and ride  into town, and do those things
>     himself, or at least go with his loyal red friend, and help him.

    Because someone might say, "Hey, Reid!  I thought you were dead!"

    Actually, the LR did go into town himself in disguise at times.  But
    that didn't always work.  There was a television episode where the LR
    went in town in his usual bearded disguise, went to a barbershop ,
    and asked for a beard trim.  The woman barber didn't notice that his
    beard was fake, but she did notice the lack of suntan on his face, in
    the outline of a mask.

    (Which reminds me of a MAD cartoon back in the 1960s, in which Batman
    is out in the noonday sun, and later looks in his bathroom mirror and
    finds that he is suntanned on the bottom half of his face.)

>     I'd say in some ways, the Ranger was a lot like  the Kingfish, and
>     Amos on A&A. Always putting the Native American in harms  way, instead
>     of himself. In other words: the Ranger duped his poor misfortunate
>     red brother into doing things he himself did not want to do.

    I always thought of that as more of a division of labor, where each
    of them did what he was better at or liked better.

>     Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 21:52:43 -0400
>     From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];

>     Many Ranger episodes feature Chief Thundercloud as a friendly
>     Indian chieftain who helps the masked man and Tonto.

    I thought that was Chief Thunderthud, and Tonto was an Ooragnak! ;->

    Kowabonga, Kimosabe!

    And Clarabelle Hornblow squirted him with a selzer bottle!

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

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    Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 05:27:24 -0400
    From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: let george do it

>     In The Old-Time Radio Digest!
>     Volume 2008 : Issue 126

>     Kathy asked,
>     Standard oil of California was the sponsor for  all of the let george do
>     it programs that i have heard.
>     does anyone know who  the sponsor/sponsors were in other parts of the
>     country?

    	While LET GEORGE DO IT was only heard on the West Coast for most of
    its run, it was aired on the New York Mutual station, WOR, during 1954 on
    Wednesday nights at 9:30 PM.   Unfortunately, I do not know who sponsored
    these broadcasts.

    	LET GEORGE DO IT also aired on Wednesday nights at 9:30 PM on
    Washington D. C. station WTOP beginning in April, 1956 and running through
    early May, 1957.  As WTOP was a CBS affiliate at the time, LET GEORGE DO IT
    was probably a syndicated show and could have had a variety of sponsors.

    Signing off for now,

    Stewart

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