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Date: 11/28/2005 8:02 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 366
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Chicago Tribune / LAT on the Jack Be  [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Couple Next Door                      [ StevenL751@[removed] ]
      re: The Mouse That Jack Built         [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
      Re: Question about "The Mouse that J  [ "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@ea ]
      Mouse That Jack Built                 [ Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@yahoo. ]
      razor blade and other exotic radios   [ ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed]; ]
      The Final Fate of the Brown Derby     [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
      razor blade and other exotic radios   [ BH <radiobill@[removed]; ]
      The Razor's Edge - but not really     [ Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:22:01 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Chicago Tribune / LAT on the Jack Benny Stamp

    Laura Leff's campaign to get Jack Benny on the 39 cent stamp continues to garner major media coverage - a story from the Chicago Tribune also found in the LA Times follows.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:22:21 -0500
    From: StevenL751@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Couple Next Door

    I've been listening to the Peg Lynch series "The  Couple Next Door" and in
    December 1959 the long-running character of "Aunt  Effie" suddenly elopes and
    moves away to New Mexico.  All this happens  off-mike, we never get a farewell
    to the character.  I'm wondering what in  real life happened to actress
    Margaret Hamilton for Peg Lynch to need to,  without warning or goodbyes,
    write her
    character out of the show.  Does  anyone know?

    Steve Lewis

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    Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:48:23 -0500
    From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  re: The Mouse That Jack Built

    David Van Nostrand asked when "The Mouse That Jack Built" will be
    available on DVD. The good news is: it already is! It's on the Looney
    Tunes Golden Collection, Volume Three, which was released in October.
    (Haven't bought this one yet, but it's at the top of my Xmas wish list.
    The first two volumes are fantastic!)

    Kermyt

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    Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:48:50 -0500
    From: "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Question about "The Mouse that Jack
     Built" DVD

    In response to David Van Nostrand's query about the availability of this
    cartoon on DVD -- it's out now.  It's on disc two of the 4-DVD set "Looney
    Tunes Golden Collection" Volume 3.  Your best bet, price-wise, would be to
    get it at a major discount retailer - Wal-Mart, Target, or Costco (if you're
    a member).  Incidentally, there are three other Benny-related titles on this
    set: "The Woods are Full of Cuckoos" (1937) and "Goofy Groceries" (1941),
    both featuring a character named "Jack Bunny" - and "Daffy Duck and the
    Dinosaur" (1939), with a character named Casper Caveman, who sounds
    suspicously like Mr. Benny.  All three of these cartoons feature Jack
    Lescoulie doing his (quite convincing) Benny imitation - but there's nothing
    like the genuine article, which is probably why "The Mouse that Jack Built"
    (1959) is the last cartoon on the disc.

    And (unrelated to Jack and company), the set also includes "Rocket Squad"
    (1956) - a "Dragnet" parody featuring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig as Joe and
    Frank.  This title must hold the distinction of being the only cartoon to
    feature two beloved characters engaging in non-stop cigarette smoking.

    Cartoons are for kids???  Hah!

    Michael

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    Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:28:40 -0500
    From: Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mouse That Jack Built

    The Mouse That Jack Built is now available on the Looney Tunes Golden
    Collection 3, along with a bunch of other Hollywood parody cartoons.  All of
    the Golden Collections are exceptional sets, and the most essential parts of
    my DVD collection.

      Rodney Bowcock

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    Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:38:13 -0500
    From: ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  razor blade and other exotic radios

>     I don't think I've ever seen any kind of analysis on the
>     razor-blade/graphite junction, though I can't imagine that it was ignored
>     in the past.

    I recall reading that the edge allowed access to a single crystal of iron.
                                   XB
                                    IC|XC

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    Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:39:13 -0500
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Final Fate of the Brown Derby

    The Los Angeles Times covers the end of The Brown Derby - a part of Jack
    Benny lore as strong as Palm Springs and the rains that moved Heddy Lamar's
    house next door to Dennis' in an article today.

    Jack is mentioned.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:40:19 -0500
    From: BH <radiobill@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  razor blade and other exotic radios

>     I'm guessing that the razor blade's coating was either a nitride (produced
>     by quenching the hot steel in a cyanide bath)  or iron phosphide, which we
>     obtain by applying phosphoric acid.

    Letting the razoblade collect a bit of rust worked well.

>      Every radio needs a diode of some sort to unravel the music from the
>     carrier wave, and just about any pair of oxidized metals will produce a
>     semiconductor junction and thus make a diode.

    Which is why people reported being able to hear a local radio station on
    their cook stove, down spouts, teeth, ect. When two dissimilar metals
    lightly touch they can often form a diode junction. If the transmitter
    signal is strong enough, like a local station, you don't even need a
    tuned circuit to tune it [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:57:37 -0500
    From: Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Razor's Edge - but not really

    In the late1950s my "Uncle George" used to repair ours and neighbors'
    television sets using some "do-it-yourself" manuals. They illustrated
    common picture and/or sound problems, and had printed charts showing what
    vacuum tubes or other parts needed to be replaced or repaired in order to
    fix the TV's problem.
    Use of these books saved us a lot of money, since, in many cases, we could
    bypass the local radio/TV repair shop's diagnostic charges by going down to
    the local drugstore and plugging in the repair manual's suggested "problem
    tubes" on their "automatic test" machine. For any tubes that rated bad or
    weak, we could buy replacements from the handy rack next to the testing
    machine.
    I think this system worked because by that time most televisions were being
    built more or less to a common platform, as far as vacuum tube technology
    was concerned. (Later, as transistors, etc. were introduced, things got
    more complicated.)
    My question:
    In the later OTR days, were there similar "generic" do-it-yourself repair
    manuals for most radios, or did owners have to depend on local repair shops
    to fix their sets?

    Just [removed]

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