Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #25
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Date: 2/1/2009 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 25
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      2008 Deaths                           [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Smoking and vic and sade              [ Grams46@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 1-7 Febru  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Sherlock Holmes                       [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
      "Quiet Please" query                  [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      100 Years Ago in February             [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      2-1 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Fireside Chats                        [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]

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    Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:19:20 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2008 Deaths

    05-09-1923 - Johnny Grant - Goldsboro, NC - d. 1-9-2008
    emcee: (Honorary Mayor of Hollywood) "Jubilee"
    09-06-1927 - Waring Jones - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-10-2008
    announcer: Armed Forces Radio
    xx-xx-1914 - Shuichi Fujikura - Tokyo, Japan - d. 1-11-2008
    emcee: "Niju-no-Tobira"
    04-11-1913 - Bob LeMond - Hale Center, TX - d. 1-13-2008
    announcer: "Romance of the Ranchos"; "Sweeny and March Show"
    02-18-1922 - Allan Melvin - Kansas City, MO - d. 1-17-2008
    actor: "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
    08-16-1929 - Lois Nettleton - Oak Park, IL - d. 1-18-2008
    actor: Patsy Dennis "Brighter Day"
    09-05-1939 - John Stewart - San Diego, CA - d. 1-19-2008
    singer: (Kingston Trio) "Stars for Defense"; "Guest Star"; "Guard
    Session"
    02-17-1924 - Margaret Truman - Independence, MO - d. 1-29-2008
    coloratura: "The Big Show"; "The Railroad Hour"; "Authors in the News"
    05-25-1915 - Betty Ruth Smith - d. 2-1-2008
    actor: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"; Catherine Monroe
    "Backstage Wife"
    06-10-1918 - Barry Morse - London, England - d. 2-2-2008
    actor: "Odyssey of Honor"; "George Orwell: A Radio Biography"
    10-23-1918 - Augusta Dabney - Berkeley, CA - d. 2-4-2008
    actor: "Theatre Five"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    09-10-1906 - Ruth Stafford Peale - Fonda, IA - d. 2-6-2008
    religious leader: "The Aldrich Family"
    09-09-1903 - Phyllis Whitney - Yokohoma, Japan - d. 2-8-2008
    author: "The Young Book Reviewers"
    01-06-1934 - Bobby Lord - Sanford, FL - d. 2-16-2008
    country music artist: "Country Music Time"
    07-20-1916 - Mary Barclay - Wilton, Somerset, England - d. 2-19-2008
    actor: "Advs. in Odyssey"
    04-28-1928 - Richard Baer - NYC - d. 2-22-2008
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"
    11-24-1925 - William F. Buckley - NYC - d. 2-27-2008
    conversative political commentator: "Larry King Live"
    07-24-1921 - Giuseppe Di Stefano - Motta, Sicily, Italy - d. 3-3-2008
    operatic tenor: "Standard Hour", "Metropolitan Opera"
    01-06-1927 - Jack Voorhies - Sheffield, AL - d. 3-4-2008
    radio personality: (Voice of the Shoals) Created Luther Appleby and
    his mule Chilton
    08-08-1917 - Malvin Wald - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-6-2008
    writer: "Suspense"
    12-30-1937 - Pat Shanahan - Milwaukee, WI - d. 3-10-2008
    disk jockey: Rocky Foxx WFOX Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    07-04-1923 - Thelma Holland - Waukesha, WI - d. 3-11-2008
    guitarist: "Hank and Thelma"
    12-16-1917 - Arthur C. Clarke - Minehead, England - d. 3-19-2008
    science fiction writer: "The Long John Nebel Show"
    01-21-1922 - Paul Scofield - Hurstpierpoint, England - d. 3-19-2008
    actor: Kadmos "Dionysos"; "The Troy Trilogy"
    12-26-1914 - Richard Widmark - Sunrise, MN - d. 3-24-2008
    actor: Neil Davison "Home of the Brave"; Alan Webster "Joyce Jordan,
    [removed]"
    05-03-1924 - Ken Bailey - East Cleveland, OH - d. 3-25-2008
    producer: "Morning Midway"; "Breakfast With the Baileys"
    07-07-1925 - Wally Phillips - Portsmouth, OH - d. 3-27-2008
    radio personality: WGN Chicago, Illinois
    12-12-1911 - Jules Dassin - Middletown, CT - d. 3-31-2008
    writer: "Kate Smith"; Yiddish Theatre
    12-18-1922 - Bob Dunnavant - Decatur, AL - d. 4-5-2008
    co-founder of the Athens Broadcasting Company
    10-04-1924 - Charlton Heston - Evanston, IL - d. 4-5-2008
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Kaleidoscope"
    07-29-1950 - Bill Estes - Racine, WI - d. 4-13-2008
    regional manager of Wisconsin Public Radio's WHAD-FM
    08-15-1931 - Joe Feeney - Grand Island, NE - d. 4-16-2008
    irish tenor: Got start at station WOW in Omaha, Nebraska
    04-24-1928 - Brian Clewer - London, England - d. 4-16-2008
    host: "Cynic's Choice"
    05-14-1925  Tristram Cary - Oxford, England - d. 4-24-2008
    musician: "Dr. Who"
    05-23-1921 - Humphrey Lyttelton - Windsor, England - d. 4-25-2008
    host: "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue"
    09-15-1913 - Henry Brant - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-26-2008
    composer: "The Eternal Light"
    12-12-1914 - Buzzy Bavasi - NYC - d. 5-1-2008
    baseball executive: "Monitor"; "Top In Sports"
    08-20-1916 - Bernard Archard - London, England - d. 5-1-2008
    actor: "The Murder of Walter Raleigh"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Lynne "Angel" Harvey - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-3-2008
    producer: (Wife of Paul Harvey) "The Rest of the Story"
    05-15-1918 - Eddy Arnold - Henderson, TN - d. 5-8-2008
    singer: (Tennessee Plowboy) "Checkerboard Square"; "Eddy Arnold Show"
    01-28-1929 - Bill Gilliand - Memphis, TN - d. 5-9-2008
    announcer: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    12-10-1919 - Alexander Courage - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-15-2008
    music: "Broadway Is My Beat"; "Hollywood Soundstage"; "Romance"
    09-24-1913 - Margot Boyd - Bath England - d. 5-20-2008
    actor: Marjorie Antrobus "The Archers"
    03-29-1962 - Earl Root - Raised Edina, MN - d. 5-23-2008
    disk jockey: "Root of All Evil"
    01-30-1922 - Dick Martin - Battle Creek, MI - d. 5-24-2008
    writer: "Duffy's Tavern"
    07-09-1919 - Earl Hagen - Chicago, IL - d. 5-26-2008
    conductor: "Music With Wings"; Wrote TV Theme for "Andy Griffith Show"
    02-15-1927 - Harvey Korman - Chicago, IL - d. 5-29-2008
    started in radio at the age of 12
    08-25-1917 - Mel Ferrer - Elberon, NJ - d. 6-2-2008
    actor: "Eternal Light"; "Cloak and Dagger"; "MGM Theatre of the Air"
    03-08-1921 - Cyd Charisse - Amarillo, TX - d. 6-17-2008
    actor, dancer: Guest: "Spike Jones Show"
    10-28-1915 - Dody Goodman - Columbus, OH - d. 6-22-2008
    actor: "Hopalong Cassidy"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    05-12-1937 - George Carlin - NYC - d. 6-22-2008
    comedian : Was an announcer for WEZE Boston, Massachusetts
    05-17-1925 - Ira Tucker - Spartanburg, SC - d. 6-24-2008
    gospel singer: (The Dixie Hummingbirds) WCAU Philadelphia, PA
    07-09-1924 - Leonard Pennario - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-27-2008
    pianist: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Concert Hall"
    08-15-1912 - Robert Lewis Shayon - NYC - d. 6-28-2008
    along with Edward R. Murrow created "You Are There"
    01-02-1925 - Larry Harmon - Toledo, OH - d. 7-3-2008
    actor: "The Great Gildersleeve"
    11-20-1919 - Evelyn Keyes - Port Arthur, TX - d. 7-4-2008
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-26-1923 - Charles Wheeler  Bremen, Germany - d-. 7-4-2008
    news correspondent: "Transatlantic Call"; "A Tribute to Alistair"
    11-12-1917 - Jo Stafford - Coalinga, CA - d. 7-16-2008
    singer: "Tommy Dorsey Show"; "Ford Show"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
    08-03-1917 - Larry Haines - Mt. Vernon, NY - d. 7-17-2008
    actor: Carl Ward "Young Dr. Malone"; Fred Molina "This is Nora Drake"
    08-24-1924 - Lou Teicher - Wilkes Barre, PA - d. 08-03-2008
    pianist: (Ferrante and Teicher) "The Zero Hour"; "Hollywood Radio
    Theatre"
    12-14-1932 - George Furth - Chicago, IL - d. 8-11-2008
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    01-10-1917 - Jerry Wexler - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-15-2008
    record producer: "Sound Stage"
    03-22-1918 - Fred Crane - New Orleans, LA - d. 8-21-2008
    actor: "Doctor Christian"
    07-01-1923 - Ralph Young - NYC- d. 8-22-2008
    singer: "Fitch Bandwagon"
    06-21-1911 - Wonderful Smith - Arkadelphia, AR - d. 8-28-2008
    comedian: "Red Skelton Show"
    04-16-1933 - Ike Pappas - NYC - d. 8-31-2008
    newscaster: "World News Roundup"; "CBS News"
    02-26-1920 - Michael Pate - Sydney, Australia - d. 9-1-2008
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-16-1930 - Joey Giardello - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-4-2008
    middleweight boxer; "Tops In Sports"; "Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts"
    07-14-1914 - George F. Putnam - Breckenridge, MN - d. 9-12-2008
    newscaster, announcer: "George Putnam and the News"; "The Army Hour"
    02-14-1925 - Grant Krueger - d. 9-14-2008
    musician: "Heinie and His Grenadiers"; "GK and the Executives"
    01-20-1922 - Connie Haines - Savannah, GA - d. 9-22-2008
    singer: "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Rhapsody in Rhythm"
    04-22-1918 - Mickey Vernon - Marcus Hook, PA - d. 9-24-2008
    major league baseball player' " Play Ball"
    06-18-1925 - Bob Arthur - Aberdeen, WA - d. 10-1-2008
    actor: "The Bob Arthur Show"
    07-27-1933 - Nick Reynolds - San Diego, CA - d. 10-2-2008
    singer: (The Kingston Trio) "Guest Star"; "Guard Session"
    06-20-1913 - Al Gallodoro - Birmingham, AL - d. 10-4-2008
    jazz saxophonist: "The Paul Whiteman Show"; "The Henry Morgan Show"
    xx-xx-1917 - Kim Chan - China - d. 10-5-2008
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"
    06-02-1922 - Gil Stratton, Jr. - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-11-2008
    actor: "Billy Webster "Those Websters"; Jimmy "Life with Luigi";
    Freddie "My Little Margie"
    10-29-1922 - Neal Hefti - Hastings, NB - d. 10-11-2008
    composer, et al: "Woody Herman Show"; "Manhattan Melodies"
    11-13-1922 - Jack Narz - Louisville, KY - d. 10-15-2008
    announcer: "Meet Corliss Archer"; "Tenneessee Ernie Ford Show"
    04-16-1927 - Edie Adams - Kingston, PA-d. 10-15-2008
    singer, actor: "Stewart Foster Show"
    09-20-1937 - Tom Tresh - Detroit, MI - d. 10-15-2008
    baseball player: "Tops In Sports"
    05-16-1912 - Studs Terkel - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-31-2008
    journalist, sometimes actor: "Destination Freedom"; "Ma Perkins"
    06-07-1933 - Herb Score - Rosedale, NY - d. 11-9-2008
    baseball broadcaster: Cleveland Indians
    05-31-1921 - Howard Reig - NYC - d. 11-10-2008
    newscaster, announcer: "The Music Builders"; "The Falcon"
    03-04-1932 - Miriam Makeba - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 11-10-2008
    click singer: "The World of Folk Music"
    01-17-1914 - Irving Brecher - NYC - d. 11-17-2008
    writer, producer: "Community Sing"; "The Life of Riley"
    05-11-1919 - John Michael Hayes - Worcester, MA - d. 11-19-2008
    writer: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Twelve Players"; "Sam Spade"
    xx-xx-1918 - Alan Woods - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-27-2008
    writer: "The Abbott and Costello Show"
    12-31-1930 - Odetta - Birmingham, AL - d. 12-2-2008
    singer: "Voices of Vista"
    04-20-1924 - Nina Foch - Leyden, The Netherlands - d. 12-5-2008
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"; "Cavalcade of America"
    10-17-1926 - Beverly Garland - Santa Cruz, CA - d. 12-5-2008
    actor: Worked in radio early in her career
    08-25-1916 - Van Johnson - Newport, RI - d. 12-12-2008
    actor: "Request Performance"; "Romance"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
    03-17-1914 - Sammy Baugh - Temple, TX - d. 12-17-2008
    football great: "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"
    01-26-1922 - Page Cavanaugh - Cherokee, KS - d. 12-18-2008
    singer: (The Page Cavanaugh Trio) "The Jack Paar Show"
    10-10-1930 - Harold Pinter - Hackney, England - d. 12-24-2008
    writer, actor: "Focus on Football Pools"; "A Slight Ache"
    01-17-1927 - Eartha Kitt - North, SC - d. 12-25-2008
    singer: "Here's to Veterans"

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    Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:20:13 -0500
    From: Grams46@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Smoking and vic and sade

    rand@[removed]

>     ...It's not  uncommon to hear a good cigar mentioned or smoked or smoking
>     used for comedy  (Fibber McGee trying to stop smoking cigars in a late 40s
>     episode; Bob Hope  mentioning "Mexican cigarettes" in a passing joke in a
>     late 1930s show in his  series)....

    the funniest otr program i ever hear regarding smoking  was when rush's high
    school principal - mr. chinbunny wanted vic to teach him to  smoke cigars.
    peace from kathy
    support our troops; end the war in  iraq
    john 3:16

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    Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:20:20 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 1-7 Februrary

     From Those Were the Days --

    2/2

    1946   The Mutual Broadcasting System presented Twenty Questions for the
    first time. Bill Slater was the master of ceremonies.

    2/5

    1931   Eddie Cantor's long radio career got underway as he appeared on
    Rudy Vallee's The Fleischmann Hour.

    1940   Amanda of Honeymoon Hill debuted. Joy Hathaway starred as 'the
    beauty of flaming red hair'. The program stayed for six years on NBC.

    2/6

    1943   Frank Sinatra made his debut as vocalist on radio's Your Hit
    Parade this night. Frankie had left the Tommy Dorsey Band just four
    months prior to beginning the radio program. He was described as,
    "...the biggest name in the business."

    1950   NBC first broadcast Dangerous Assignment. The show starred Brian
    Donlevy in the role of soldier of fortune, Steve Mitchell.

    Joe

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    Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:20:45 -0500
    From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Sherlock Holmes

    Hello again --

    I can give some help to the OTRer who wrote the following on 1/29/09:

>     If so, please help!  I've been trying to find episode
>     dates for a case that was sent to me named "The Yastley Case".

    The actual name, as appearing in the Soundelux edition with Sir John Gielgud
    as Holmes, was called The Yoxley Case. Doyle's original title, however, was
    The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, which involved a setting called
    Yoxley Old Place.
    My cassettes are dated 1983, but I know the Gielgud recordings were made
    much earlier, as I heard them on WGMS in the early sixties, when I was in
    the U. S. Army Band in Washington [removed] And they were probably old then,
    broadcast originally on the BBC.

    Hope this helps.

    Jan Bach

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    Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:17:52 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "Quiet Please" query

    In response to Pamela Gitta's question, regarding the title of a
    specific QP episode, I forwarded her request to OTR researcher and
    former dealer, Ron Barnett, now retired in Vegas. He has an audio
    copy of every show in this series and it is one of his favorites.
    Here is his reply:

    +++++++++++++++++

    Based upon her recollection of the plot, I'd say it was likely one of
    these five, listed in order of probability:

    6-15-47 "I Have Been Looking for You" (Obsession for beautiful woman)
    10-17-48  "And Jeanie Dreams of Me" (Man dreams vision of perfect woman)
    5-10-48  "There are Shadows Here" (The shadow of a woman haunts a man)
    5-3-48   "How Beautiful Upon the Mountain"  (Vision of woman appears
    on high mountain)
    2-13-49   "Valentine"  (A young Abe Lincoln's love for his wife)

    +++++++++++++++++++

    Hope this [removed]

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:23:33 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  100 Years Ago in February

    The following were born in February 1909.

    02-02-1909 - Frank Albertson - Fergus Falls, MN - d. 2-29-1964
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-02-1909 - Purv Pullen - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-18-1992
    bird and animal imitator: Horatio G. Birdbath "The Spike Jones Show"
    02-04-1909 - Charles Simon - Tettenhall Wood, England - d. 5-16-2002
    actor: "Mrs. Dale's Diary"
    02-04-1909 - Robert Coote - London, England - d. 11-26-1982
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"
    02-06-1909 - John Allen Wolfe - Louisville, KY
    announcer: "Capitol Family Hour"; "Our Gal Sunday"; "Woman of Courage"
    02-11-1909 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Wilkes-Barre, PA - d. 2-5-1993
    screenwriter, film director: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    02-11-1909 - Max Baer - Omaha, NE - d. 11-21-1959
    heavyweight boxing champion, actor: Lucky Smith "Lucky Smith"
    02-14-1909 - Carlton Moss - Newark, NJ - d. 8-10-1997
    writer, creator: "Community Forum"
    02-16-1909 - Hugh Beaumont - Lawrence, KS - d. 5-14-1982
    actor: Appeared on radio in 1931
    02-16-1909 - Jeffrey Lynn - Auburn, MA - d. 11-24-1995
    actor: "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "Gulf Stream Guild Theatre"
    02-20-1909 - Barry Wood - New Haven, CT - d. 7-19-1970
    singer, host: "Million-Dollar Band"; "Your Hit Parade"
    02-21-1909 - Ray Hedge - d. 7-11-1994
    actor: Clarence Tiffingtuffer "Myrt and Marge"
    02-23-1909 - Anthony Ross - NYC - d. 10-26-1955
    actor: Danny Clover "Broadway Is My Beat"; Broadway Columnist "Mr.
    Broadway"
    02-27-1909 - Carl Frank - Weehawken, NJ - d. 9-23-1972
    actor: Jerry Malone "Young Dr. Malone"; Bob Drake "Betty and Bob"

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:23:40 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-1 births/deaths

    February 1st births

    02-01-1859 - Victor Herbert - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-24-1924
    composer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"; "Railroad Hour"
    02-01-1891 - Alexander Kipnis - Schitomir, Ukraine - d. 5-14-1978
    wagnerian basso profundo: "Outpost Concert Series"; "Metropolitan Opera"
    02-01-1894 - James P. Johnson - New Brunswick, NJ - d. 11-17-1955
    pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"; "This is Jazz"
    02-01-1895 - John Ford - Cape Elizabeth, ME - d. 8-31-1973
    director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    02-01-1901 - Clark Gable - Cadiz, OH - d. 11-16-1960
    actor: "So Proudly We Hail"; "Silver Theatre"
    02-01-1902 - Langston Hughes - Joplin, Mo - d. 5-22-1967
    writer: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
    02-01-1903 - Donald Thompson - Albia, IA - d. unknown
    actor/announcer: "The Right to Happiness"; "Those Happy Gilmans"
    02-01-1904 - S. J. Perelman - NYC - d. 10-17-1979
    humorist: "Information, Please"; "Author! Author!"; "Railroad Hour"
    02-01-1905 - Joan Morgan - Kent, England - d. 7-22-2004
    actor: "21st Precinct"
    02-01-1906 - Hildegarde - Adell, WI - d. 7-29-2005
    singer, pianist: (The Dear that Made Milwaukee Famous) "Hildegard
    Program"
    02-01-1908 - George Pal - Cegled, Austria-Hungary - d. 5-2-1980
    film producer, director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    02-01-1912 - Clete Roberts - Portland, OR - d. 9-30-1984
    news correspondent: Covered both World War II and Korea
    02-01-1915 - Alan Burgess - Birmingham, England - d. 4-10-1998
    author: wrote a series for the BBC on war heroes
    02-01-1916 - Helen Walpole - Birmingham, AL - d. 5-26-1992
    actor: Sylvia Bardine "Just Plain Bill"; Frances "Lorenzo Jones"
    02-01-1920 - Walter Stone - Dunellen, NJ - d. 10-20-1999
    comedy writer: "Robert Q. Lewis"
    02-01-1922 - Miriam Wolfe - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-29-2000
    actor: Nancy "Witch's Tale"
    02-01-1922 - Renata Tebaldi - Pesaro, Italy - d. 12-19-2004
    lyric soprano: "Bell Telephone Hour"; "Metropolitan Opera
    02-01-1924 - Bill Comstock - Rockbridge, OH
    singer: (Four Freshmen) "The Four Freshmen"; "Music for Moderns"
    02-01-1926 - John Blashill - d. 2-21-2006
    disk jockey: KVOE Santa Ana, California
    02-01-1926 - Nancy Gates - Dallas, TX
    actor: "Masquerade"; "Orson Welles Theatre"
    02-01-1926 - Stuart Whitman - San Francisco, CA
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"
    02-01-1937 - Don Everly - Brownie, KY
    singer: (The Everly Brothers) "March of Dimes"; "Country Hoedown"
    02-01-1941 - Marian Hailey - Portland, OR
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    February 1st deaths

    02-18-1907 - L. A. "Speed" Riggs - Silverdale, NC - d. 2-1-1987
    tobacco auctioneer: "Jack Benny Show"; "Kay Kyser Show"
    02-21-1881 - Dr. Jonah B. Wise - Cincinnati, OH - d. 2-1-1959
    preacher: "Message of Israel"
    02-25-1912 - Richard Wattis - Wednesbury, England - d. 2-1-1975
    actor: "Brothers In Law"
    04-16-1895 - Mischa Mischakoff - Proskourov, Russia - d. 2-1-1981
    violinist: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "NBC String Trio"
    05-02-1885 - Hedda Hopper - Hollidaysburg, PA - d. 2-1-1966
    actor, columnist: Portia Brent "Brenthouse"; "Hedda Hopper Show"
    05-25-1915 - Betty Ruth Smith - d. 2-1-2008
    actor: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"; Catherine Monroe
    "Backstage Wife"
    05-29-1909 - Mary Jane Higby - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-1-1986
    actor: Joan Davis "When a Girl Marries"; Nora Drake "This is Nora Drake"
    05-30-1892 - Raymond Clapper - LaCygne, KS - d. 2-1-1944
    commentator: (Killed During WWII) "News and Commentary for White Owl
    Cigars"
    06-10-1920 - Anne Burr - Boston, MA - d. 2-1-2003
    actor: Regina Rawlings "Backstage Wife"; "Nona Marsh "Wendy Warren and
    the News"
    07-07-1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti - Cadegliano, Italy - d. 2-1-2007
    opera composer: "Best of All"
    07-23-1908 - Ernest Dudley - Dudley, England - d. 2-1-2006
    writer: "Enter Sexton Blake"; "Dr. Morelle"
    08-12-1921 - Marjorie Reynolds - Buhl, ID - d. 2-1-1997
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Silver Theatre"
    08-16-1888 - Marion Sayle Taylor - Louisville, KY - d. 2-1-1942
    advisor: "Voice of Experience"
    08-25-1903 - Michael Bartlett - North Oxford, MA - d. 2-1-1978
    singer: "The Jack Benny Show"
    08-30-1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - London, England - d. 2-1-1851
    creator of Frankenstein
    09-15-1907 - Jack Bailey - Hampton, IA - d. 2-1-1980
    emcee: "Queen for a Day"; "Truth or Consequences"
    10-04-1895 - Buster Keaton - Piqua, KS - d. 2-1-1966
    comedian: "Shell Chateau"; "Voices from the Hollywood Past"
    11-03-1928 - Wanda Hendrix - Jacksonville, FL - d. 2-1-1981
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Stars Over Hollywood"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    12-01-1918 - Thomas Hayward - Kansas City, MO - d. 2-1-1995
    singer: "Serenade to America"; "Name Speaks"
    12-28-1909 - Olan Soule - La Harpe, IL - d. 2-1-1994
    actor: Sam Ryder "Bachelor's Children"; Kermit Hubbard "Joan and Kermit"

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:57:12 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Fireside Chats

>     Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:16:01 -0500
>     From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];

>     FDR became president in 1932 during the depression and he used radio
>     to keep the public informed of the conditions of the economy. Radio
>     was still in its infancy and he took  full advantage to communicate
>     with the nation.  FDR had a wonderful radio voice and was an excellent
>     speaker.  My father told me he felt that FDR was talking just to [removed]
>     I don't think his fire Side Chats had a schedule.

    FDR apparently had a talent at using the communications media of his
    day.  I've read the text of some of his Fireside Chats, and they read
    very well.  I've never heard any recordings of them, but they must
    have been even more effective on radio.

    Jimmy Carter tried something like a Fireside Chat early in his
    presidency, sitting in an informal setting and wearing a sweater.  He
    also did a nationwide televised call-in show, with Walter Cronkite
    hosting (parodied very well by Saturday Night Live).  For some
    reason, he didn't continue doing that.

    But that brings to mind a question.  I remember, starting with
    Eisenhower, and going up to at least Reagan, when Presidents used to
    address the nation from the Oval Office, and three television
    networks and all four radio networks would carry the speech.
    Nowadays, there are so many channels that it's hard for a
    Presidential address to the nation to get that kind of attention any
    more.

    So my question is, in the otr days, how many stations carried
    Presidential addresses?  To what extent did stations run regular
    programming opposite the President?

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

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