Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #80
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Date: 3/19/2006 11:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 80
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Doc Gamble.                           [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
      Parker Fennelly                       [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
      Bad sign of a prior time              [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
      3-19 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Marla's [removed]                     [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]

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    Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:02:12 -0500
    From: Rentingnow@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Doc Gamble.

    If one thinks about the medical profession both in the 40's and now, there
    is a perfectly logical reason why Doc Gamble would stop in to Fibbers  house.

    Imagine what office and hospital practice would be like in  the 30's and
    40's.  There was no specialists or very few unless one lived  in the big
    cities.
    I grew up in Powell Wyoming in the 40's listening to  Mutual on KPOW and
    everything else on KGHL in Billings Montana.  Every  physician was expected
    to do
    everything from deliver babies,  to fix broken  bones and remove appendix.
    The
    only antibiotics were the sulfa  drugs.  The only drug which could be used
    for TB, which at the turn of the  century killed 25% of the population. was
    Streptomycin.  He didn't have  very many medicines to really take care of his
    patients; no penicillin or  tetracycline for the usual illness. No Isoniaside
    (INH) or Rifibutin  for TB.

    Effectively treat hypertension? Forget about it. FDR was a good  example.

    Now imagine at the end of the day you want an outlet for the  frustration.
    What better outlook than to stop by and see Fibber, the town  crank and weirdo
    and exchange insults.

    What relief; what joy!

    He could say to Fibber what he wanted.  He couldn't say to his  patients what
    he thought, but he could Fibber. Then he could go home if not  happy at
    least, decompressed. No worry about beating the wife or the kids. No  worry
    about
    drinking too much. Just settle in for supper, unless, of course, he  was
    called
    out again for a house call.

    Need relief?

    Just stop by  21 Wistful Vista and sling some arrows at Fibber.

    But on the other side, Jim Jordan had a significant contact with the  medical
    profession. Marian had a number of illness and for an extended period, I
    think over a year, she was out of the program.  The reason I heard on a BBC
    program was mental illness. He would have talked to a lot of physicians
    during
    this time.

    Jim Jordan had his frustrations with the medical profession and undoubtedly
    enjoyed the exchange of insults as Fibber with Doc Gamble, a fictional
    representation of the medical profession.

    Larry Moore

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    Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:51:24 -0500
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Parker Fennelly

    A. Joseph Ross commented on Parker Fennelly.

    He was one of the Allen's Alley people.  "Howdy, Bub!" with the New England
    accent.  He was also one of the main characters on "Snow Village Sketches."
    If radio needed an old-timer with a New England accent, Parker Fennelly was
    the one to get!  The program ran on and off from 1936 to 1946, on NBC and
    Mutual.

    Ted Kneebone.  OTR website:  [removed]
    Democrats: [removed]
    1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401 / 605-226-3344

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    Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:12:35 -0500
    From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Bad sign of a prior time

    I was listening to a recording of an old Tarzan radio show--I believe it was
    from the first incarnation of the show, the one from 1932.  At one point,
    one of the characters refers to an African native as a dumb (insert "n" word
    here.)  I suppose that was acceptable then, but I don't recall ever hearing
    that word used on any other show I've ever heard.

    I know later network censorship disallowed lots of words and references--was
    that one of them?

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    Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:18:15 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-19 births/deaths

    March 19th births

    03-19-1889 - George L. "Doc" Rockwell - Providence, RI - d. 3-3-1978
    comedian: "Camel Pleasure Hour"
    03-19-1890 - Gayne Whitman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1958
    actor, announcer: Frank Chandler "Chandu the Magician"; "Cavalcade of
    America"
    03-19-1891 - Earl Warren - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-9-1974
    governor, supreme court justice: "Living 1948"; "Meet the Press"
    03-19-1892 - James Van Fleet - Coytesville, NJ - d. 9-24-1992
    4 star army general: "A Tribute to Jack Benny"
    03-19-1900 - Frank Chapman - d. 7-xx-1966
    singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
    03-19-1907 - Kent Smith - NYC - d. 4-23-1985
    actor: "NBC University Theatre of the Air";"Radio Reader's Digest"
    03-19-1909 - Louis Hayward - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 2-21-1985
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "This
    Is My Best"
    03-19-1912 - Russ Case - Hamburg, IA - d. 10-10-1964
    orchestra leader: "On a Sunday Afternoon"; "Peggy Lee Show"; "Your
    Hit Parade"
    03-19-1916 - Eric Christmas - London, England - d. 7-22-2000
    actor: "CBC Wednesday Night"
    03-19-1916 - Irving Wallace - Chicago, IL - d. 6-29-1990
    writer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    03-19-1919 - Alfred Apaka - Honolulu, HI - d. 1-30-1960
    vocalist: "Hawaii Calls"
    03-19-1923 - Gordon Connell - Berkeley, CA
    actor: Billy Sherwood "Hawthorne House"
    03-19-1923 - Pamela Britton - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-18-1974
    actress: "Luncheon at Sardi's"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-19-1927 - Richie Ashburn - Tilden, NE - d. 9-9-1997
    baseball hall of famer, sportscaster: "Tops In Sports"; "Philadelphia
    Phillies Play by Play"
    03-19-1933 - Phyllis Newman - Jersey City, NJ
    actress: "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Tonight at 9:30"
    05-17-1906 - Carl McIntire - Ypsilanti, MI - d. 03-19-2002
    evangelist: "Twentieth Century Reformation Hour"

    March 19th deaths

    01-16-1895 - Irene Bordoni - Ajaccio, Crosica, France - d. 3-19-1953
    singer: "The Coty Playgirl"
    04-18-1913 - Al Hodge - Ravenna, OH - d. 3-19-1979
    actor: Britt Reid/Green Hornet "Green Hornet"; "Columbia Workshop"
    04-25-1887 - Charles E. Fuller - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-19-1968
    preacher: "Old Fashioned Revival Hour"; "Heart to Heart"
    05-14-1868 - "Big Bill" Thompson - Boston, MA - d. 3-19-1944
    mayor of chicago: "The March of Time"
    08-28-1900 - Diana Bourbon - NYC - d. 3-19-1978
    producer, director: :Double or Nothing"; "Life Begins"
    09-01-1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1950
    author: Creator of Tarzan
    09-09-1908 - Ed Prentiss - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1992
    actor: Red Albright/Captain Midnight "Captain Midnight"; Ned Holden
    "The Guiding Light"
    12-07-1909 - Arch Oboler - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1987
    writer: 'Lights Out"; "Adam and Eve skit on Bergen/McCarthy"
    12-13-1913 - Jimmy Carroll - NYC - d. 3-19-1972
    singer: "Pot O' Gold"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:10:08 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Marla's [removed]

    I got word yesterday from Lee Slosberg that his mother has been
    released from Park Terrace Care Center and has returned to her
    apartment in Forest Hills, NY after approximately 5 months of
    rehabilitation for her serious head injury last October.

    Marla Slosberg, as most Digesters know, is the daughter of OTR great,
    Charlie Cantor.  She has been attending the FOTR convention in Newark
    for several years, is well known in the vintage radio community and is
    a member of the Metropolitan Washington Old Time Radio Club.

    Her communication skills have improved remarkably under her physical
    therapy and her memory improves daily.  She is creating a bulletin
    board of all the photos and cards she has received from her OTR friends
    in the past several months. Both she and Lee want to express their
    sincere thanks for all the support and encouragement she has received
    from the members of the radio hobby throughout the country.

    I spoke to her today on the telephone and she sounds relatively strong
    and confident. At the present time, she will not be using her email and
    she would prefer the number of personal phone calls be limited so she
    can continue to rest, recover, and rejuvenate her body and spirits.
    However, all cards, notes of support, (and photographs of the senders)
    are very much appreciated and she looks forward to every one.

    Mail can reach her at:  70-20  108th Street, Apt #C, Forest Hills, NY
    11375.

    Jack French
    Editor:  RADIO RECALL
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