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Date: 2/17/2007 10:21 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 55
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Ranger questions                      [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
      Mel Allen                             [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Re: Vic and Sade's announcer          [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
      Superman's KKK consultant interviewe  [ "Stephen Davies" <SDavies@[removed] ]
      Re: Collectors Corner                 [ jimb <beshiresjim@[removed]; ]
      Chief Gray Wolf - Imperial Broadcast  [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed] ]
      Air Dates                             [ Radioclass <radioclass@[removed] ]
      Station WMCA owner& Ann Frank         [ <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; ]
      2-17 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 18-24 Feb  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:41:16 -0500
    From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Ranger questions

    Tonto's tribal affiliation (Potowatamee) is revealed in "Woman of Courage",
    April 4, 1950.  One example of Tonto contributing to solving a dilemma for
    the Ranger can be found in "As The Arrow Points", December 20, 1950 in which
    Indian arrows directing a massacre are interpreted and altered by Tonto.
    The Ranger often relied on Tonto to help with the meaning of Indian customs
    and signs.

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    Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:58:10 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mel Allen

    Jay Manarky writes:

>     An announcer for Vic & Sade in 1941 called himself Mel (sometimes
>     Melvin) [removed]  Could that by any chance be the same Mel Allen who was
>     the voice of the New York Yankees on radio?

    While I haven't established confirmation that this Mel was "your" Mel, Jay,
    somebody else may be able to do that for us.  In the meantime, there are
    definitely hints -- despite dissimilarity in voice inflection -- that
    suggest the two Mels could be one and the same.  For instance, of the dozen
    aural series I was able to confirm for Melvin Allen Israel (the Yankees
    broadcaster) in my just released volume of biographical profiles, he
    routinely introduced such programs as Kitty Foyle and This Day Is Ours, both
    soap operas, a genre to which some scholars add Vic and Sade.  He was
    handling those shows between 1938-44 which precisely coincides with your
    date in question.  Is that too much of a stretch?

    Allen had a fascinating leap from Birmingham, Ala., the city of his origin,
    to the Yankees.  Equipped with a law degree, a career in sportscasting was
    apparently quite distant in his mind.  The absorbing details of how it all
    shook out are comprehensively revealed in the new 360-page hardback "Radio
    Speakers," profiling 600 air personalities while identifying another 600
    with their links to the ether.  It's available by calling 800-253-2187
    (daytime, M-F) or at [removed].

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:58:30 -0500
    From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Vic and Sade's announcer

    Hello again --

    In answer to Jay Manarky's query regarding the Mel Allen who announced Vic
    and Sade, yes, it is the same one we know better as a sports announcer from
    the forties and fifties. On a couple of shows Mel's southern accent that we
    are so familiar with slips through occasionally.
    And, yes, Vic and Sade had as other announcers and pitchmen THE Ralph
    Edwards and THE Mike Wallace in addition to the regulars of Ed Roberts, Ed
    Herlihy, and Bob Brown.

    yOurs TRuly
    Jan Bach

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    Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:44:50 -0500
    From: "Stephen Davies" <SDavies@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Superman's KKK consultant interviewed

    I promise that I am not trying to start a provocative [removed]

    Yesterday's edition of _The Current_ on CBC Radio One gave a half hour
    update on the KKK.  They promised this intriguing segment, described below,
    but never once referred on air to Superman or OTR.  It was a big
    disappointment.  Nevertheless, if you're interested in hearing the
    interview, it's archived at:
    [removed]
    as the RealAudio link in Part 2.  Stetson is interviewd beginning at 11:50.

    KKK Resurgence - Stetson Kennedy

    For 140 years, the Ku Klux Klan's record has been as horrifying as it has
    been consistent -- hate-filled propaganda, lynching campaigns and violent
    reprisals on civil rights activists -- black or white. And throughout that
    history, the Klan has had few opponents as committed and troublesome as
    Stetson Kennedy.

    In the 1940s, his infiltration of the KKK resulted in the sensational book,
    The Klan Unmasked. Around the same time, he used his role as a consultant
    on the Superman radio series to expose the Klan's secret codes and rituals.
    Stetson Kennedy is currently working on his memoir, Dissident-At-Large and
    he was at his home in St. Augustine, Florida.

    Stephen D
    Calgary

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    Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:28:36 -0500
    From: jimb <beshiresjim@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Collectors Corner
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    Hi All,

      The OTRR is scaning and uploading to our website back issues of many of the
    'no longer available' otr magazines.  For the 'Collector's Corner', we are
    missing issue #9, and #26, and any, if published, after #33.  Does anyone
    have copies of these that they might could scan, or loan to us to be scanned
    in?

      You can see what we've uploaded so far by going to the 'publications' page
    on our website located at [removed].

      Thanks for any help you might be able to give.
      jimb

        Fans of OTR - please check out  the OLD TIME RADIO RESEARCHERS GROUP
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      MEMBER: ASSOCIATION OF OLD TIME RADIO GROUPS

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    Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:33:40 -0500
    From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Chief Gray Wolf - Imperial Broadcasting System
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    I have 2 episodes of a radio show called something like Chief Gray Wolf. At
    the end of one it says it is on the Imperial Broadcasting System. Does anyone
    have any info on the show or the system.  I think it may be a 1930s broadcast
    system from Canada.

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    Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:23:40 -0500
    From: Radioclass <radioclass@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Air Dates

    Thanks so much to Ed for providing the link to the
    site listing all radio logs.  This is very helpful to
    me in authenticating some broadcast dates (NY Times).

    Anne

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    Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:26:34 -0500
    From: <vzeo0hfk@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Station WMCA owner& Ann Frank

    I just received a fascinating message about Ann Frank's father's messages in
    1941 to Nathan Strauss, in Frank's efforts to get help for his family to
    emigrate. Check YIVO's website which should have details

    Among other things, Strauss's station broadcast the first rate show, "New
    World A' Coming"

    Howard Blue

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    Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:39:46 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-17 births/deaths

    February 17th births

    02-17-1871 - Donald Brian - St. John's, Canada - d. 12-22-1948
    singer, actor: "The Philco Hour"
    02-17-1881 - Arthur Judson - d. 1-28-1975
    executive: Founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System
    02-17-1897 - Ben Alley - West Virginia - d. 2-8-1970
    singer: (the Golden Tenor) "Melody Lane"; "Sweethearts Of the Air"
    02-17-1897 - Harry Tugend - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-11-1989
    writer: "The Fred Allen Show"
    02-17-1906 - Charlie Spivak - New Haven, CT - d. 3-1-1982
    orchestra leader: "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"
    02-17-1907 - Larry "Buster" Crabbe - Oakland, CA - d. 4-23-1983
    actor: "George Jessel Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"
    02-17-1908 - Staats Cotsworth - Oak Park, IL - d. 4-9-1979
    actor: David Farrell "Front Page Farrell"; Mark Trail "Mark Trail"
    02-17-1908 - Walter "Red" Barber - Columbus, MS - d. 10-22-1992
    sportscaster: (The Old Redhead) "Schaefer Star Revue"
    02-17-1910 - Marc Lawrence - NYC - d. 11-28-2005
    actor: "Let George Do It"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Scout About Town"
    02-17-1910 - Mark Hawley - New Jersey - d. 9-5-1986
    announcer: Guy Lombardo's New Year's Eve broadcast
    02-17-1911 - Orrin Tucker - St. Louis, MO
    bandleader: "Orrin Tucker and His Orchestra"; "One Night Stand"
    02-17-1912 - Clifford Evans - Senghenydd, Wales - d. 6-9-1985
    Producer and director on Welsh radio
    02-17-1914 - Arthur Kennedy - Worcester, MA - d. 1-5-1990
    actor: "Best Plays"
    02-17-1914 - Larry Douglas - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-15-1996
    actor, singer: "Here's to Romance"
    02-17-1914 - Wayne Morris - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-14-1959
    actor: "Radio Reader's Digest"; "NBC university Theatre of the Air"
    02-17-1919 - Kathleen Freeman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-24-2001
    actor: California Artists Radio Theatre"
    02-17-1923 - Buddy De Franco - Camden, NJ
    bandleader: "Glenn Miller Orchestra"
    02-17-1924 - Margaret Truman - Independence, MO
    soprano: "The Big Show"
    02-17-1924 - Mel Welles - NYC - d. 8-19-2005
    worked as a radio disc jockey before moving to Hollywood in the 1950s
    02-17-1925 - Hal Holbrook - Cleveland, OH
    actor: Grayling Dennis "Brighter Day"
    02-17-1929 - Patricia Routledge - Birkenhead, Cheshire, England
    actor: "Saturday Play"
    02-17-1941 - Gene Pitney - Hartford, CT - d. 4-5-2006
    singer: "Voices of Vista"
    02-17-1949 - Don Scardino - NYC
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    02-17-1962 - Lou Diamond Phillips - Subic Bay Naval Station, Philippines
    actor: "Twilight Zone"

    February 17th deaths

    01-10-1896 - Frances Lockridge - d. 2-17-1963
    writer: "Mr. and Mrs. North"
    02-12-1904 - Joseph Kearns - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 2-17-1962
    actor, host: Melvyn Foster "A Date with Judy"; Man in Black "Suspense"
    03-13-1908 - Paul Stewart - NYC - d. 2-17-1986
    actor: Gyp Mendoza "Life Can Be Beautiful"; Richard Rogue "Rogue's
    Gallery"
    03-15-1904 - Verree Teasdale - Spokane, WA - d. 2-17-1987
    actor: (Wife of Adolph Menjou) "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    03-17-1901 - Alfred Newman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-17-1970
    composer, conductor: "Hollywood Star Time"; "Radio Hall of Fame";
    "Silver Theatre"
    05-01-1919 - Dan O'Herlihy - Wexford, Ireland - d. 2-17-2005
    actor: Nicholas Lacey "One Man's Family"
    06-17-1922 - Jerry Fielding - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-17-1980
    conductor: "Hardy Family"; "Jack Paar Show"; "You Bet Your Life"
    07-17-1905 - William Gargan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-17-1979
    actor: Martin Kane "Martin Kane, Private Eye"; Barrie Craig "Barrie
    Craig, Private Investigator"
    09-15-1876 - Bruno Walter - Berlin, Germany - d. 2-17-1962
    conductor: "Salzburg Music Festival"; "Word from the People"; "New
    York Philharmonic"
    10-15-1918 - Bob Sherry - Chattanooga, TN - d. 2-17-2003
    announcer: "Archie Andrews"; "Author Meets the Critics"
    xx-xx-1882 - Georgette Harvey - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-17-1952
    female bass singer: "New World A' Coming"; "Free Company"

    Ron Sayles
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    Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:05:38 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 18-24 February

     From Those Were The Days --

    1949 - Yours Truly Johnny Dollar debuted on CBS. The program starred
    Charles Russell as the insurance investigator with the action-packed
    expense account.

    2/19

    1922 - Ed Wynn became the first big-name vaudeville talent to sign on as
    a radio talent. Previously, top talent had not considered radio a
    respectable medium.

    2/22

    1954 - ABC radio's popular Breakfast Club, program with longtime host,
    Don McNeill, was simulcast on TV  beginning this day. The telecast of
    the show was a bomb, but the radio program went on as one of the
    longest-running programs on the air.

    2/23

    1927 - [removed] President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill into law that
    created the Federal Radio Commission, "to bring order out of this
    terrible chaos." The president was speaking, of course, of the nation's
    then unregulated radio stations. The commission assigned frequencies,
    hours of operation and power allocations for radio broadcasters across
    the [removed] The name was changed to the Federal Communications Commission
    (FCC) on July 1, 1934.

    2/24

    1942 --  It was an historic day in radio broadcasting, as the Voice of
    America (VOA) signed on for the first time on this day.

    Joe

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