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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 269
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      old-time radio comic books            [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Can You Top This?                     [ PFornatar@[removed] ]
      9-19 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      I know what you're thinking           [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:19:29 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  old-time radio comic books

    Are there any web-sites that document Dell's Four Color comics other than
    Disney comics?  They published a few old-time radio subjects and I cannot
    find an archive on-line other than disney stuff.  Anyone have any leads?
    Martin

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    Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:19:50 -0400
    From: PFornatar@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Can You Top This?
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    Does anyone remember this show. I do fondly. I've hunted for it but can't
    seem to find anything. Anyone know anything about this show with Joe Laurie
    Jr.
    Senator [removed]

    Paul V. Fornatar

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    Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:21:43 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-19 births/deaths

    September 19th births

    09-19-1879 - Louis Joseph Vance - NYC - d. 12-16-1933
    writer: "The Lone Wolf"
    09-19-1888 - John Henry Bodkin - d. unknown
    director: Abundant Life Mixed Chorus "Operatic Night"
    09-19-1888 - Porter Hall - Cincinnati, OH - d. 10-6-1953
    actor: "March of Time"
    09-19-1892 - Fred E. Ahlert - NYC - d. 10-20-1953
    composer/arranger: "When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the
    Day"
    09-19-1899 - Ricardo Cortez - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 4-28-1977
    actor: "Shell Chateau"; "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Treasury Hour"
    09-19-1904 - Dr. Bergen Evans - Franklin, OH - d. 2-4-1978
    host: "Down You Go"; "Of Many Things"
    09-19-1904 - Elvia Allman - Concord, NC - d. 3-6-1992
    comedienne: Tootsie Sagwell "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show";
    Cora Dithers "Blondie"
    09-19-1905 - Betty Garde - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-25-1989
    actor: Peggy O'Neill "O'Neills"; Kate Mason "Maudie's Diary"
    09-19-1910 - Arthur Mullard - London, England - d. 12-11-1995
    actor: Jack (Dad Porter) "Industrial Inaction"; "Brothers In Law"
    09-19-1910 - Dresser Dahlstead - Springville, UT - d. 4-20-1998
    announcer: "I Deal in Crime"; "Death Valley Days"; "I Love a Mystery"
    09-19-1910 - Margaret Lindsay - Dubuque, IA - d. 5-8-1981
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"
    09-19-1912 - Edmund Anderson - NYC - d. 6-29-2002
    program writer and director for various network programs
    09-19-1912 - William Abramchik - d. 4-16-1998
    newscaster: Chicago, Illinois
    09-19-1913 - Frances Farmer - Seattle, WA - d. 8-1-1970
    actor: "Pursuit of Happiness"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Suspense"; "Lux
    Radio Theatre"
    09-19-1916 - Helen Ward - NYC - d. 3-xx-1975
    vocalist: "Let's Dance"; "Duffy's Tavern"
    09-19-1922 - Willie Pep - Middletown, CT - d. 11-23-2006
    boxer: "Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts"
    09-19-1926 - James Lipton - Detroit, MI
    actor: Dick Grant "The Guiding Light"; Dan Reid "The Lone Ranger"
    09-19-1931 - Ray Danton - NYC - d. 2-11-1992
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"

    September 19th deaths

    02-03-1903 - Martin Block - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1967
    announcer, disc jockey: "Make-Believe Ballroom"; "Chesterfield Supper
    Club"
    04-07-1899 - Robert Casadesus - Paris, France - d. 9-19-1972
    pianist: "Telephone Hour"; "Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra"
    05-21-1901 - Fred Cole - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1964
    writer: "Double or Nothing"
    06-01-1900 - Werner Janssen - NYC - d. 9-19-1990
    music: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    06-17-1897 - Vivian Duncan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1986
    singer: (Topsy and Eva) "Wireless Vaudeville"
    06-17-1910 - Red Foley - Blue Lick, KY - d. 9-19-1968
    singer: "National Barn Dance"; "Grand Ole Opry"; "Red Foley Show"
    07-28-1911 - Ann Doran - Amarillo, TX - d. 9-19-2000
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-16-1896 - Eddie Green - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-19-1950
    actor: Eddie the Waiter "Duffy's Tavern"; Jerry "Uncle Charlie's Tent
    Show"
    10-20-1895 - Rex Ingram - Cairo, IL - d. 9-19-1965
    actor: "Free World Theatre"
    12-30-1931 - Skeeter Davis - Dry Ridge, KY - d. 9-19-2004
    country/western singer: "Grand Old Opry"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:12:01 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
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    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:06:14 -0400
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  I know what you're thinking

    Purchasers and perusers of my new book "The Great Radio Sitcoms," released
    last week ([removed], 800-253-2187) may be mortified when they
    see Jim and Marian Jordan on the cover exchanging glances, scripts in hand,
    while separated by an unmistakable CBS microphone.  While it's true they
    made their names and their wealth at NBC, it's also reality that they were
    CBS subjects when a previous series, Smackout, was airing out of Chicago in
    the early years of the 1930s.  Lines on the back cover explain all of that
    but the casual observer may miss it.

    I'm taking a proactive stance to attempt a little defense before I'm roughed
    up by a reactionary stating that I don't  know where they spent the bulk of
    their time working.  Of course I do.  I heard them every Tuesday night for
    years and later on NBC's Monitor.

    Allow me to explain that, unlike a very few publishers that allow authors to
    not only create covers for their works and title their own books, most
    conventional publishers reserve such actions for themselves.  Therefore,
    staff editors, artists and legal officials do the picking.  We can intercede
    when we see something that is fundamentally off base.  But to routinely
    question every decision from on high would not make for a satisfactory
    working relationship, and that is desirable to all parties.

    Hence, I didn't raise a fuss when I saw that someone had picked that shot
    for that cover.  There were other issues far more critical worth delving
    into.  I trust the purists among us can comprehend that.  If you've worked
    for an employer at some time in your life, perhaps you know when it's best
    to accept the status quo and be silent.

    That doesn't negate the fact that the Jordans appeared on CBS for a while.
    And it certainly shouldn't diminish the 17 pages devoted to their lives and
    their accomplishments to be found inside.  In writing about this here, I
    simply wanted you to know how the decision was made.

    The Jordans, by the way, appear alongside Ozzie and Harriet, the Aldriches,
    Amos 'n' Andy, Snooks, Beulah, Duffy, the Andersons of Father Knows Best,
    Burns and Allen, Gildy, Benny, Riley, Luigi, Millie, Irma, Miss Brooks,
    Harris and Faye and a host of others, many of those with
    never-before-published photos.

    Jim Cox

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