Subject: [removed] Digest V2008 #203
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Date: 8/23/2008 10:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 203
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                  NEW STUFF AT THE SHOP!
                               2007 MANC VIDEOS, AND MORE!
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                                     Today's Topics:

      Louella [removed]                    [ Peter Boe <boe5650@[removed]; ]
      Yours Truly, Jimmy Harmon             [ Jim Harmon <jimharmonotr@[removed] ]
      8-22 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Sgt Preston's First Name              [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]

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    Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:08:51 -0400
    From: Peter Boe <boe5650@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Louella [removed]

    Hey all,

    Does anyone know of a source for any existing
    copies of the Louella Parsons show?  I have
    only been able to find one.

    many thanks,
    pjb/

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    Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:08:59 -0400
    From: Jim Harmon <jimharmonotr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Yours Truly, Jimmy Harmon

    YOURS TRULY, JIMMY HARMON
    I appreciate Martin Grams Jr.'s interest in my science fiction writing. I
    wrote about fifty short stories and novelets during the fifties and sixties,
    and I continue to do an occasional one up to the present day. Some of my
    tarries of a fantasy type have appeared up through 2007 in the anthology
    series I edit, "It's That Time Again" in which Martin Grams has also
    appeared. Another fantasy story appeared in the softbound collection "Weird
    Trails" (that's with a T for trailin' West), Same year a collection of my SF
    short stories appeared as the soft cover, 'Harmon's Galaxy". Last year a
    collection with one brand new novel and seven shorts from over several
    decades appeared as "The Contested Earth, and other SF stories". Going back
    some years my work appeared in earlier SF anthologies such as "Fourth Galaxy
    Reader', "Galaxy: Thirty Years of Speculative Fiction", "Rare Science
    Fiction" etc. These stories originally appeared in Galaxy SF, Fantasy & SF,
    Amazing Stories, Future, etc. I also wrote a few Westerns for such magazines
    as Double-Action Western, and many detective and crime stories for Smashing
    Detective, Pursuit, etc. A number of my sexy mystery novels have been
    reprinted, slightly revised by me, eight so far, by Ramble House in trade
    editions, and have received good reviews from serious critics like Jon L.
    Breen in Ellery Queen's Magazine, and Gary Lovisi in one of his books
    Between my books on old time radio, and all these reprints, practically
    everything I have evver written is in print, or soon will be. Of course, I
    have had a modest output to someone like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Walter Gibson
    or the present day Richard Lupoff. Anyone interested can buy any of these
    books from me, and some through [removed] I appreciate Martin's interest
    and that of anyone else concerned. -- JIM HARMON

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    Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:09:05 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-22 births/deaths

    August 22nd births

    08-22-1851 - Daniel Frohman - Sandusky, OH - d. 12-26-1940
    broadway producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-22-1879 - Edward Johnson - Ontario, Canada - d. 4-20-1959
    operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"
    08-22-1893 - Cecil Kellaway - Capetown, South Africa - d. 2-28-1973
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
    08-22-1893 - Dorothy Parker - West End, NJ - d. 6-7-1967
    author, panelist: "Author, Author"; "Information, Please"
    08-22-1897 - Eddie Dunstedter - Edwardsville, IL - d. 7-30-1974
    organist, conductor: "Gold Medal Fast Freight"; "Lineup"; "It
    Happened in Hollywood"
    08-22-1897 - Elisabeth Bergner - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-12-1986
    actor: "Radio Hall of Fame"
    08-22-1897 - Nick Lucas - Newark, NJ - d. 7-28-1992
    singer: (The Singing Troubador) "Al Pearce and His Gang"
    08-22-1900 - Charles Halleck - De Motte, IN - d. 3-3-1986
    [removed] senator: "Meet the Press"; "American Forum on the Air"
    08-22-1904 - Don Prindle - d. 10-25-1968
    writer: "The Abbott and Costello Show"; "Niles and Prindle"
    08-22-1904 - Jay Novello - Chicago, IL - d. 9-2-1982
    actor: Sam Sabaaya "Rocky Jordan"; Glenn Hunter "One Man's Family"
    08-22-1906 - James Meighan - NYC - d. 6-20-1970
    actor: Michael Waring "The Falcon"; Peter Carver "Lora Lawton"
    08-22-1907 - Sherling Oliver - Kipling, AL - d. 8-23-1971
    actor: Dudley Trowbridge "Valiant Lady"
    08-22-1909 - Julius J. Epstein - NYC - d. 12-30-2000
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-22-1909 - Philip G. Epstein - NYC - d. 2-7-1952
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-22-1910 - David Victor - d. 10-18-1989
    writer: "Joan Davis Time"; "Let George Do It"; "The Mel Blanc Show"
    08-22-1910 - Lesley Woods - d. 8-2-2003
    actor: Mary Wesley "Boston Blackie"; Margo Lane "The Shadow"
    08-22-1910 - Rod Brasfield - Smithville, MS - d. 9-12-1958
    comedian: "Grand Ole Opry"
    08-22-1912 - Charles Carpenter - Chicago, IL - d. 10-18-1978
    writer: "Brownstone Theatre"
    08-22-1915 - Hugh Paddick - Hoddeston, Hartfordshire, England - d.
    11-9-2000
    actor: "Beyond Our Ken"
    08-22-1917 - Joe Connelly - NYC - d. 2-13-2003
    writer: "Harry Von Zell Show"; "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Frank Morgan Show"
    08-22-1920 - Ray Bradbury - Waukegan, IL
    writer: "Bradbury 13"; "Martian Chronicles"
    08-22-1922 - Shelley Winters - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-14-2006
    actor: "Hollywood Star Preview"
    08-22-1930 - Don Parcher - d. 7-9-2006
    newscaster: WTMJ Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    08-22-1942 - Kathy Lennon - Los Angeles, CA
    singer: (The Lennon Sisters) "Music on Deck"; "Voices of Vista";
    "Guest Star"
    08-22-1952 - Heather Nimmo - Falkirk, Scotland
    writer: "Fly In-Fly-Out"; "I'll Write to Ritchie Benaud"

    August 22nd deaths

    01-21-1899 - Ernestine Hill - Rockhampton, Australia - d. 8-22-1972
    writer: "Santa Clause of Christmas Creek"
    02-04-1910 - Lansing Hatfield - Franklin, VA - d. 8-22-1954
    singer: "Met Opera Auditions of the Air"
    02-16-1903 - Norman Shelley - d. 8-22-1980
    actor: John H. Watson "Corner In Crime, Saturday Night Theatre"
    03-04-1892 - Helen Van Tuyl - Iowa - d. 8-22-1964
    actor: Ellen Collins "Bachelor's Children"
    04-11-1911 - Bob Dixon - Stamford, CT - d. 8-22-1998
    announcer: Edward R. Murrow: created the phrase "Listen to Murrow
    tomorrow"
    05-18-1908 - Del King - Kansas City, KS - d. 8-22-1964
    announcer: "Avalon Time"; "Tommy Dorsey's Kool Show"
    06-03-1924 - Colleen Dewhurst - Montreal, Canada - d. 8-22-1991
    actor: "Will Cather: A Look of Rememberance"
    06-17-1874 - Robert Boice Carson - Rossville, IN - d. 8-22-1941
    director of the Apollo Orchestra on KVOO Tulsa, Oklahoma
    06-21-1909 - Ted Sherdeman - d. 8-22-1987
    producer, director, writer: "Latitude Zero"; "Sad Sack"; "Sears Radio
    Theatre"
    07-28-1874 - Alice Duer Miller - NYC - d. 8-22-1942
    author: "Author, Author"
    09-23-1913 - Helen Hiett - Tazewell, IL - d. 8-22-1961
    correspondent, newscaster: "Helen Hiett News"; "News Roundup"
    11-21-1882 - Alfred White - d. 8-22-1972
    actor: Soloman Levy "Abie's Irish Rose"
    12-08-1914 - Floyd Tillman - Ryan, OK - d. 8-22-2003
    country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Music Time"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:09:11 -0400
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Sgt Preston's First Name

>     Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:28:25 -0400
>     From: Jim Harmon <jimharmonotr@[removed];

>     One of the half hour radio shows and a children's record which I
>     still have called "The Case that Made Preston a Sergeant" has a
>     line: "Constable Bill Preston hoped this would be the case that
>     made him a [removed]"  In my book, Great Radio Heroes, I made him
>     the more formal Sergeant William Preston.

    I suspect that the Wikipedia writer got the name from your book.

    I remember buying your book and reading it back in the late 1960s.  I
    listened to the Lone Ranger and Sergeant Preston on the radio when
    they were still new episodes.  I read your book and re-read it, and
    it played a big part in getting me into otr as a hobby.

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

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