Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #64
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Date: 2/23/2007 6:01 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 64
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Photo of Hal                          [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
      Remembering Hal                       [ "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed]; ]
      Clarification                         [ "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed]; ]
      Hal Stone: A Wonderful Human Being    [ Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@sbcgl ]
      Frank Martin revisited                [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Hal Stone                             [ JJLjackson@[removed] ]
      lobby a Hal stone award               [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
      Hal Stone                             [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Heard in 38 States                    [ Russ Butler <songbook2@[removed]; ]
      Hal Stone                             [ "Bill" <nbcblue@[removed]; ]
      Hal Stone                             [ lawrence albert <albertlarry@yahoo. ]
      HAL STONE                             [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      Hal Stone                             [ "Scott A Eberbach" <saeberbach@eart ]
      Hal Stone                             [ "[removed]" <asajb2000@ ]
      Mr Hal Stone                          [ gary young <garyy2002us@[removed]; ]
      Frank Martin                          [ danhaefele@[removed] ]
      Hal Stone                             [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      I need to stop lurking for just a mi  [ tomr5@[removed] ]
      Hal Stone                             [ <robertgaxley@[removed]; ]
      2-23 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Clark Kent's clothes                  [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      Hal Stone                             [ "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@m ]

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:15:05 -0500
    From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Photo of Hal

    The only picture I have of Hal is on this page, fourth photo down:
    [removed]
    ---Dan

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:15:30 -0500
    From: "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Remembering Hal

         As others have said, I feel I got to know Hal through the Digest.
    Unfortunately I only had limited E-Mail contact with him.  Even the small
    correspondence I had he made you feel like a friend you knew for years.   I
    wrote in a response at the Golden Age Cartoons Message [removed] that while
    Hal wasnt a huge star even in his time (and he would have told you that ) he
    will be sorely [removed] would have been an outstanding comedian in his own
    right had he chosen to follow that path as an [removed] human
    [removed]'s story about spending 45 minutes on the phone with him about
    the illustrations in his [removed] miss you [removed]

    Tim Lones

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:15:43 -0500
    From: "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Clarification

    What I meant to say in the last part of my previous [removed] spending 45
    minutes with Walden disccussing the illustrations in his book shows just how
    special he [removed] Bless Dorothy and the family

    Tim Lones

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:17:06 -0500
    From: Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@[removed];
    To: Time Radio Digest Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Hal Stone: A Wonderful Human Being

    It is hard to believe that this very vital man is gone.  He had
    attended and starred in several SPERDVAC conventions, and
    without his presence, some of the conventions would have been
    outright dull.  You always knew Hal was around.  He had such a
    great sense of humor. Many times he would be so funny, with a
    straight face.  I will never forget when I visited him together
    with Bobb Lynes and Barbara Watkins, and he found out that I had
    liberal leanings. He leaned over the table, and in portraying
    such great seriousness, he asked with a straight face:  "What is
    this man doing in my house?"

    Hal would drive to the SPERDVAC conventions from Arizona, and
    perform brilliantly in re-creations, and he directed a lot,
    also. At all the conventions that he attended, he was thoroughly
    and deeply active and involved. He was never too "big" to
    participate with our contemporary group "30 Minutes to Curtain"
    and doubled in his participation of "Horn Blows At Midnight",
    starring Eddie Carrol as Jack Benny.  I believe it was at that
    same convention, on Sunday morning, a time when many attendees
    had already left, that he and his friend and Archie Andrews
    co-star Bob Hastings performed what I call some otherwise
    mediocre "Bob and Ray" scripts. Those scripts were never meant
    for a live audience.  Stone and Hastings had the entire audience
    rolling in the aisles, for almost an hour, almost losing our
    breakfast.  I have attended SPERDVAC conventions since 1984, but
    that morning was SPERDVAC's finest hour. I am thankful to
    organizations like SPERDVAC and FOTR that I had the opportunity
    to see Hal perform and to get to know the man, and I thank the
    OTR Digest that I was able to read his comments, which I
    considered addenda to his wonderful book "[removed], Archie!
    Re-laxx!"

    Stuart

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:55:57 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Frank Martin revisited

    Dennis Townsend writes:

>     Have heard him as the Wheaties pitchman on Nightbeat and Tales of the Texas
>     Rangers but nowhere else. Anyone know anything about him? Yes i have
>     purchased Jim Cox's latest book and was disappointed not to see a listing for
>     him.

    Nightbeat aired 1950-52 and Tales of the Texas Rangers was on in that same
    two-year interval.

    Jeff Frank Martin Jr., whose entry appears in "Radio Speakers" (p. 180), was
    a busy network radio announcer and actor in the period 1943-52.  Could this
    not be the man currently being sought?

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:57:21 -0500
    From: JJLjackson@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hal Stone
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    The comments below are from Penny Swanberg, who was a good friend to Hal  and
    Dorothy--two or three times a year, she'd be staying with them in Sedona.
    She was there when Hal went in to the hospital. This message was posted this
    morning to all of us at the American Radio Theater.

    It doesn't seem possible that he's gone. But his voice and his stories are
    still with us, in recordings, and his book. So he'll never really die.

    joy

    - ---
    No one expected Hal's operation to be so critical, the
    operation itself was a success but two days after all of
    his major  organs stopped functioning.  No one knows for
    sure why.

    Dorothy,  (and I) are doing as well as can be expected.
    Lots of tears, of  course.

    There is no funeral, Hal was adamant about that.  Dorothy
    asks that no flowers be sent, but instead a donation can
    be sent to the  Heart [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:50:47 -0500
    From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  lobby a Hal stone award

    Hi Everybody,

    I would like to lobby all the OTR conventions to issue a Hal Stone award
    this year.  Hal attended so many   of the conventions each year, and was
    such a favorite for so many of us.  Thus it would be nice that each
    convention has there own award to  remember our Hal.

    Walden Hughes

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:51:18 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hal Stone
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    I've often written about my first OTR convention in 1994 when I was fortunate
    enough to have Hal Stone and Rosemary Rice as the celebrities at my table for
    dinner the first day.  That evening was the start of a wonderful time in my
    life of meeting so many great people in the OTR hobby and it was a thrill to
    be able to speak to him about his career that night.  So in some sense, you
    can say that my somewhat substantial involvement with FOTR all started with
    [removed] always happy to help out with publicity for the convention and was just
    as gracious in private as he was on camera or interviews.  I still have an
    interview he did with NJN (PBS in New Jersey) for a convention a few years
    back saved on my [removed] was a joy to be around and brought energy and
    vitality to every role he played at both FOTR and REPS.  He was so giving of
    his time at conventions that is truly saddening to see people posting to this
    digest that "they never got to meet him in person."  I swear, if you actually
    came to REPS or FOTR you wouldn't have seek him out, somehow, he would find
    you and leave you with a [removed] DoughertySeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:55:08 -0500
    From: Russ Butler <songbook2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Heard in 38 States

    Noting the Jim Cox post that 50Kw flame-throwers WGN Chicago and WSM in
    Nashville could be heard in 38 States and Canada reminds me of Jack
    Eigen.  His nightly routine on his live broadcast from the Chez Paree
    nightclub  lounge in Chicago would include his boast that HE is "heard
    in 38 States and Canada" listening at night to WMAQ 670AM, another 50Kw
    clear channel station.

    Incidentally, there are still six 50,000 watt radio stations in the
    Chicago ADI and presumably they all reach 38 states at night, given the
    topography and propagation of Illinois!

    Rich Samuels has an interesting recap of Jack's career:
    [removed]

    =Russ Butler  songbook2@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:55:18 -0500
    From: "Bill" <nbcblue@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Hal Stone

    I never met Hal personally, but we used to swap jokes on the Thursday OTR
    chat room. I am so saddned by this news.

    Bill H.

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:24:02 -0500
    From: lawrence albert <albertlarry@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hal Stone
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    To say I'm stunned is being less then truthful. Hal was an event, a joy and a
    figure that loomed large in my life. From the time we first met at a REPS
    meeting to the last time I saw him at the REPS showcase last June we were
    able to put aside our political differences and have a good time laughing and
    joking about them. I once told him that when I talk to him I did it only from
    right side of my mouth. He laughed long and loud. He called me his token
    lefty.

      I will  miss him deeply and hope that all of you who got to share any time
    with him will join in a prayer of rememberance and joy for the life that was
    among us for so brief a time.
      Rest in Peace

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:24:35 -0500
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  HAL STONE

    I am just stunned to read  about Hal Stone's passing.
    My wife and I enjoyed his  company and she would always have a warm recall of
    some event that he was  involved with long after we had arrived back
    [removed] is not going to be happy  when I tell her the news.
    He was such a gent and my last  two engagements in Newark were all the
    greater for his having been a part of the  recreations and the panel.
    I got to perform with him last  year when we did GUNSMOKE together. Standing
    beside him I could feel his  commitment to  the character and it gave me great
    joy to know I was  performing with a pro.
    A man who leaves such as he did  behind him is a man for all seasons and one
    sorely to me  missed.
    I hope we get to do a tribute in October when we  all gather again in Newark.
    My condolences to his  family.
    They should know of the impact this man had on any  and all who were
    privileged to have met him.
    I got to work  with him!
    I feel particularly blessed by that turn of  fortune.

    So long pal.
    Great playin' with  ya!
    Michael C. Gwynne

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:25:11 -0500
    From: "Scott A Eberbach" <saeberbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Hal Stone
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    Hi All,

    When I read of Hal's passing I felt a great deal of sadness.  While I never
    had the opportunity to meet Hal in person I feel as if I have lost a good
    friend.

    Through his many postings on the digest,an occasional person to person
    e-mail, and his delightful book is how I came to know  this wonderful man. I
    find it rather ironic that starting some time last we week  I started
    rereading portions of Hal's book. Especially his association with Lillian
    Gish and his chance meeting with Judy Garland while on a train to
    California. Equally ironic is that just this morning I was planning to drop
    him a line to wish him a speedy recovery from his recent surgery and to let
    him know how much I have enjoyed his book. I was also hoping to meet him at
    one of the many upcoming conventions. And then I read Charlie's note. I
    offer my most heartfelt condolences to Dorothy and his other family members
    May he rest in peace.

     Scott A Eberbach

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:44:51 -0500
    From: "[removed]" <asajb2000@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hal Stone

    You know, we all know it is inevitable and somehow
    more jarring, especially when it is someone who has
    contributed as much lately as he had and who
    graciously made himself available for any interview or
    any recreation and really got involved, but it still
    doesn't make it any easier.  Some people seem younger
    than their years, their chronological age and Hal was
    one of those people.  We will all miss him and a real
    void exists now.  The remaining conventions will take
    some time to adjust to, without Jughead.

    Andy Blatt

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:45:28 -0500
    From: gary young <garyy2002us@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mr Hal Stone
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    I just read that he has passed. Such a loss to all. He is the one person I
    wanted to meet. What a history and life he had. I was going to buy his book
    on my next paycheck. Hope I still can. Eventhough I havent met him, I will
    miss him.
      Prayers to his family.

      Gary

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:40:33 -0500
    From: danhaefele@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Frank Martin
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        Frank Martin was an attorney and a radio announcer.  The Gassman Brothers
    and I traveled to his home and recorded an interview with him for SPERDVAC
    some years ago.  A recording of that interview is in the SPERDVAC library.

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:40:48 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Hal Stone

       I was shocked when I got Charlie's message on Hal's passing.
       I never met him personally, but chatted with him with many times on
    the otr chat on Thursdays.  He was a great guy with a great sense of
    humour with whom I bantered many times.
       I'll greatly miss [removed]
       Joe (who'll miss the never to be written follow-up on his last book)

    --
    Visit my homepage: [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:58:39 -0500
    From: tomr5@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  I need to stop lurking for just a [removed]
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    We spent part of last FOTR at Dorothy and Hal's table.  What a bright light,
    what energy, what fun he brought to the table, and every other table he ever
    frequented.

    Reeelax, Hal.  We'll all miss you.

    Regards,  Tom Rose

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:27:26 -0500
    From: <robertgaxley@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Hal Stone

    While I never met Hal personally, we corresponded through e-mail a number of
    times concerning his book and our review of it in our club newsletter as well
    as some other OTR subjects.  I always found him to be a totally kind and
    considerate gentleman with a tremendous since of gentle humor which the world
    certainly needs more of today.  I had hoped to get the Cincinatti convention
    this year with the hope of meeting Hal.  His passing is such a sad day for
    OTR fans.
    Bob Axley

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    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:58:31 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-23 births/deaths

    February 23rd births

    02-23-1883 - Victor Fleming - Pasasena, CA - d. 1-6-1949
    film director: "Gulf Screen Theatre"
    02-23-1899 - Norman Taurog - Chicago, IL - d. 4-7-1981
    film director: "Biography in Sound"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
    02-23-1904 - William L. Shirer - Chicago, IL - d. 12-28-1993
    news analyst: "CBS European News"; "[removed] Shirer: News and Comments"
    02-23-1905 - Emil Baffa - d. 11-xx-1973
    conducted his orchestra for NBC
    02-23-1909 - Anthony Ross - NYC - d. 10-26-1955
    actor: Danny Clover "Broadway Is My Beat"; Broadway Columnist "Mr.
    Broadway"
    02-23-1912 - Thomas L. Thomas - Maesteg, South Wales - d. 4-17-1983
    singer: "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"; "Voice of Firestone"
    02-23-1913 - Jon Hall - Fresno, CA - d. 12-13-1979
    actor: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    02-23-1925 - Niels Robinson - d. 1-18-1994
    actor: "Coast-to-Coast on a Bus"
    02-23-1926 - Isabel Bigley - The Bronx, NY - d. 9-30-2006
    singer: "Music for America"; "Heartbeat of Broadway"; "Let Freedom Sing"
    02-23-1935 - Gerrianne Raphael - NYC
    actor: "Let's Pretend"
    02-23-1943 - Jada Rowland - NYC
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    February 23rd deaths

    01-10-1893 - John Bonnell - Prince Edward Island, Canada - d. 2-23-1992
    preacher: "Our Spiritual Life"; "Your Life Today"
    01-27-1895 - Harry Ruby - NYC - d. 2-23-1974
    songwriter: "Thirty Minutes in Hollywood"; "Great Moments to Music"
    03-15-1911 - Abraham A. Albayalde - d. 2-23-1994
    newscaster: KTOH Lihue, Hawaii
    03-20-1924 - Philip Abbott - Lincoln, NE - d. 2-23-1998
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    03-25-1906 - Margaret Daum - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-23-1977
    singer: "American Album of Familiar Music"
    04-08-1889 - Adrian Boult - Chester, England - d. 2-23-1983
    writer: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "Casebook of Gregory Hood";
    "Sherlock Holmes"
    04-21-1919 - Don Cornell - NYC - d. 2-23-2004
    singer: "Sammy Kaye's Sunday Serenade"; "One Night Stand"; "The Big
    Show"
    05-09-1901 - Fuzzy Knight - Fairmont, WV - d. 2-23-1976
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    06-14-1918 - Jon Arthur - New Kensington, PA - d. 2-23-1982
    actor: "Big Jon and Sparkie"; "No School Today"
    06-15-1872 - Johanna Gadski - Anclam, Poland - d. 2-23-1932
    operatic singer: WJZ New York City
    06-16-1890 - Stan Laurel - Ulverston, England - d. 2-23-1965
    comedian: "Laurel and Hardy Show" Pilot, never broadcast
    07-14-1914 - Billy Kyle - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-23-1966
    pianist: "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"
    08-11-1913 - Edith Oliver - NYC - d. 2-23-1998
    actor: "Crime Doctor"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"
    09-12-1910 - Shep Fields - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-23-1981
    bandleader: "Rippling Rhythm Revue"
    09-27-1915 - Frank Gerstle - d. 2-23-1970
    actor: "Escape"; "NBC University Theatre"; "Six Shooter"; "Gunsmoke"
    10-03-1916 - James Alfred "Alf" Wight - Sunderland, England - d.
    2-23-1995
    author: James Herriot Books
    10-19-1889 - Fannie Hurst - Hamilton, OH - d. 2-23-1968
    writer: "United China Relief"; "Fanny Hurst Reviews"; "Big Joe";
    "United Nations Today"
    11-08-1899 - Edmund "Tiny" Ruffner - Crawfordsville, IN - d. 2-23-1983
    announcer: "Show Boat"; "Captain Diamond's Adventure"; "Better Half"
    11-13-1913 - Alexander Scourby - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-23-1985
    actor: Herbert Temple "Young Widder Brown"; Philip Cameron "Against
    the Storm"
    xx-xx-1885 - Rev. Dr. Frederick K. Stamm - Millheim, PA - d. 2-23-1961
    pastor: "Highlights of the Bible"
    xx-xx-1914 - Leo McCabe - Belfast, Ireland - d. 2-23-1986
    actor: Stephen Dallas "Stella Dallas"

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:44:35 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Clark Kent's clothes

>     Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:54:23 -0500
>     From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];

>     I seem to remember hearing either on the TV show or the radio show,
>     that Superman would put his Clark Kent cloths in his cape. I guess it
>     had a zipper pocket.

    Not on the TV show, maybe on the radio show, but I suspect not.  The
    cape pouch appeared in the comics, but not until around 1960 or
    thereabouts.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     15 Court Square, Suite 210                 Fax [removed]
    Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:44:53 -0500
    From: "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@[removed];
    To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Hal Stone
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    News of Hal's passing signifies a great loss to the OTR community and many of
    us personally who had a chance to get to know him.   Hal was a guest on my
    Heritage Radio Theatre last year, and we were planning
    another appearance
    after his surgery. May I extend my deepest condolences to his family at this
    time. We will all miss him.    Tom Heathwood

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