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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 76
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
3-6 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
"There are more things, [removed]" [ Wich2@[removed] ]
Donating your otr; reel boxes [ "[removed]" <asajb2000@ ]
Cassette Storage Cases [ Penne <bandpy@[removed]; ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
Nick Carter, Master Detective [ StevenL751@[removed] ]
Cassette Storage [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
Re: Helpful Locations [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
Fw: Ann of the Airlanes [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
Benny/Allen Feud material [ "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed]; ]
Re: "Only the names have been change [ Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed]; ]
donating collections to colleges [ [removed]@[removed] (Marj ]
New England Radio [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
Re: Superman's Togs, A Different Tal [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
The Little Things in Life [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:06:42 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-6 births/deaths
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March 6th births
03-06-1882 - Guy Kibbee - El Paso, TX - d. 5-24-1956
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-06-1885 - Ring Lardner - Niles, MI - d. 9-27-1933
writer: "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"
03-06-1885 - Rosario Bourdon - Longuereil, Canada - d. 4-24-1961
conductor: "Cities Service Concert"; "Great Personalities"
03-06-1900 - Jay C. Flippen - Little Rock, AR - d. 2-3-1971
actor: Sergeant "Rookies"
03-06-1904 - Hugh Williams - Bexhill-on-Sea, England - d. 12-7-1969
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
03-06-1905 - Adelaide Hawley - d. 12-21-1998
consultant on women's issues: "Adelaide Hawley Show"
03-06-1905 - Bob Wills - Limestone County, TX - d. 5-13-1975
western singer: (Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys) "Rexall Rhythm
Round-Up"
03-06-1906 - Lou Costello - Paterson, NJ - d. 3-3-1959
comedian: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Abbott and Costello Show"
03-06-1913 - Ella Logan - Glasgow, Scotlans - d. 5-1-1969
singer: "The Chase and Sanborn Hour"; "Kraft Music Hall"
03-06-1914 - Kiril Kondrashin - Moscow, Russia - d. 3-7-1981
conductor: "Van Cliburn Concert"
03-06-1916 - Red Callender - d. 3-8-1992
jazz bass player: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"
03-06-1916 - Rochelle Hudson - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 1-17-1972
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
03-06-1916 - Virginia Gregg - Harrisburg, IL - d. 9-15-1986
actor: Helen Asher "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"
03-06-1917 - Frankie Howerd - York, England - d. 4-19-1992
comedian: "Frankie Howerd Show"
03-06-1918 - Roger Price - Charleston, WV - d. 10-31-1990
writer, actor: "The Comedy Writers Show"
03-06-1923 - Ed McMahon - Detroit, MI
actor-announcer: Monitor"
03-06-1927 - William J. Bell - Chicago, IL - d. 4-29-2005
writer: "The Guiding Light"
03-06-1930 - Lorin Maazel - Paris, France
conductor: "NBC Summer Symphony"
03-06-1942 - David Cleve - England - d. 9-16-2005
actor: "Out of School"
March 6th deaths
01-26-1907 - Rita Ascot - d. 3-6-1988
actor: "Fay "Ma Perkins"; "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
02-02-1905 - Ayn Rand - St. Petersberg, Russia - d. 3-6-1982
author: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-11-1900- Georgia Fifield - d. 3-6-1985
actor: Mrs. Hipplewater "Frank Watanabe and Honorable Arcie"
05-14-1895 - Lew Lehr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-6-1950
comic: "Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro"; "Stop Me If You've Heard This One"
05-26-1904 - George Formby - Lancashire, England - d. 3-6-1961
singer, actor: "Manitoba Flood Relief Show"
06-04-1927 - Phil Rammacher - d. 3-6-2003
drums: "The Hoagy Carmichael Show"
06-10-1921 - Chuck Thompson - Palmer, MA - d. 3-6-2005
sportscaster: Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Colts
06-24-1921 - Peggy DeCastro - On a Sugar Plantation, Dominican
Republic - d. 3-6-2004
singer: (The DeCastro Sisters) "Steve Lawrence Show"; "Here's to
Veterans"
06-26-1892 - Pearl S. Buck - Hillsboro, WV - d. 3-6-1973
author: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"; "Pacific Story"
06-29-1901 - Nelson Eddy - Providence, RI - d. 3-6-1967
singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Vicks Open House"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"
07-01-1909 - Gertrude Fass - d. 3-6-2005
writer: "Suspense"; "The Whistler"
07-11-1942 - Tommy Vance - Oxford, England - d. 3-6-2005
presenter: Radio 1
07-20-1912 - Tom McDermott - McHenry, IL - d. 3-6-1996
producer, director: "Portia Faces Life"; "Rosemary"; "Wendy Warren
and the News"
08-19-1873 - Fred Stone - Longmont, CO - d. 3-6-1959
comedian: "Gulf Headliners"
08-31-1900 - Cedric Foster - Hartford, CT - d. 3-6-1975
commentator: "News and Commentary"
09-06-1904 - Maxie Rosenbloom - NYC - d. 3-6-1976
light heavyweight boxing champion, actor: "Slapsie Maxie Show"
09-08-1905 - Henry Wilcoxon - Dominica, West Indies - d. 3-6-1984
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-19-1904 - Elvia Allman - Concord, NC - d. 3-6-1992
comedienne: Tootsie Sagwell "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show";
Cora Dithers "Blondie"
10-11-1887 - Oscar Shaw - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-6-1967
singer: "Broadway Varieties"
10-20-1882 - Margaret Dumont - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-6-1965
actor: "Paramount Movie Parade"
10-27-1918 - Teresa Wright - NYC - d. 3-6-2005
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-06-1854 - John Philps Sousa - Washington, [removed] - d. 3-6-1932
composer of marches: "John Philip Sousa Speaks"
11-23-1888 - Al Bernard - New Orleans, LA - d. 3-6-1949
singer: "Dutch Masters Minstrels"; "Molle Merry Minstrels"
11-26-1907 - Francis Dee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-6-2004
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
Ron Sayles
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 01:31:24 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "There are more things, [removed]"
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
Superman's powers were
limited, as were ours, yet there were wonders which could be performed
without blessings from supernatural forces
Dear Mark-
True as far as it [removed]
But then, you're leaving Great Rao out of the equation!
(Though I doubt he was ever referenced in the radio series.)
Best,
-Craig
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 01:32:25 -0500
From: "[removed]" <asajb2000@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Donating your otr; reel boxes
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Most libraries and museums are interested in only the stuff they acquire
themselves and new acquisitions. Besides, even if they are a party to the
donation and have agreed to take the stuff in, chances are it might never see
the light of day, either because the donating party stipulated it or because
the museum wants to keep a short leash on it. For instance, when the Museum
of Broadcasting received a donation of approximately 10,000 discs from NBC
(or so we were told in the 1980's), the material was forever in the process
of being catalogued and when the new material was placed in the files, it was
done without much fanfare. Finally, when the museum moved from its original
location to a new, bigger location, the rules allowed only listening on the
premises and neither the reference material nor the audio or video archives
could be copied and then the basic listening or viewing session was reduced
from about two or three hours at a time to about 60 minutes, unless you
were a lifetime member. Those lifetime members could call-ahead and
pre-empt the lower-paying members if they had spent their hour session. So,
the material became even less accessible. Bob Jennings' idea to donate to a
nursingn Atlanta home or hospital library or some other organization that
won't quickly either sell off the material or throw it out is a good idea.
This might only work for cassettes or cd's. Reels are a much tougher item to
find a home for, since most organizations do not have that sort of material
any longer, due to the cost of repair and the fact that they likely simply do
not need it any longer.
Reel boxes? I used to buy mine from Soundd Investment in Georgia. They
used to be located in Dunwoody, Georgia and I remember buying a giant case of
350 boxes for about
$100 or so including UPS shipping. I know they are still in business but
you'll have to google to find them. Last I knew they were located at an
airport, which originally was a showroom but became their main base of
operation.
Andy Blatt
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 01:32:43 -0500
From: Penne <bandpy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cassette Storage Cases
Someone wrote regarding where to get cassette storage boxes. There is a
website you can order them from at very reasonable rates. 100 for $[removed] or
250 for [removed] Web adddress: [removed]. OK, I need to order some
myself - something I've been putting off. Thanks for reminding me. Happy
OTR'ing.
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 01:32:56 -0500
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
Hi Friends,
Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you may
listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio
Theater," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The Glowing
Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station." Streamed in high-quality audio,
on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
STROKE OF FATE
Episode 1 10-4-53 "Robert E. Lee"
NBC SUSTAINING HOST: Walter Kiernan Sunday 8:00 - 8:30 A show in the "You
Are There" tradition that has the twist that "what if" certain events had
not happened in history, what may have been the historical impact.
LET'S PRETEND
Episode 704 10-26-46 "Jack And The Beanstalk"
CBS Cream of Wheat
Host: "Uncle" Bill Adams
STUDIO ONE
Episode 29 11-18-47 "Young Man Of Manhattan" (Rehearsal of 11-17-47)
CBS Sustaining
Host: Fletcher Markle
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Mercedes McCambridge, Joe DeSantis
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
THE LUX RADIO THEATRE
CBS 12/24/51 REHEARSAL
"Alice In Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll starring: Kathy Beaumont, Ed Wynn,
Bill Thompson, Stanley Holloway, Verna Felton, and Jerry Collona.
John M. Kennedy takes Mr. Keighley's role for rehearsal.
THE COLGATE SPORTS NEWSREEL
with Bill Stern NBC Dec. 1946
>From Hollywood - With special guest: Eddie Cantor
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THE GLOWING DIAL
Adventures Of Ellery Queen - "Adventure Of The Message In Red"
originally aired November 7, 1945 on CBS
Starring: Sydney Smith, Santos Ortega, Ted de Corsia, Victor Jory as guest
armchair detective, Don Hancock announcing.
Sponsor: Anacin
New Adventures Of Nero Wolfe - "Case Of The Killer Cards"
originally aired January 12, 1951 on NBC
Starring: Sydney Greenstreet, Gerald Mohr, Bill Johnstone, Betty Lou Gerson,
Jay Novello, Howard McNear, Barney Phillips, Don Stanley announcing.
Sustained
Nick Carter, Master Detective - "Case Of The Unwritten Letter"
originally aired July 29, 1945 on MUTUAL
Starring: Lon Clark, Charlotte Manson, Ed Latimer, Humphrey Davis, Jackie
Grimes, Ken Powell announcing.
Sponsor: Lin-X Home Brighteners & Acme Paints
Adventures Of The Falcon - "Case Of The Neighbor's Nightmare"
originally aired February 4, 1951 on NBC
Starring: Les Damon, Ed Herlihy announcing.
Sponsor: Kraft Foods
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
Jerry@[removed] 562-696-4387
The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 01:33:17 -0500
From: StevenL751@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Nick Carter, Master Detective
In preparation for an upcoming recreation the Gotham Radio Players will be
doing of a lost episode from the series "Nick Carter, Master Detective", I am
searching for a recording (or script) from that series from around December
1948 which includes the commercials for "Old Dutch Cleanser". All the
episodes I've located so far from that era are without the actual
commercials, as
is the copy of the script that we'll be recreating.
Please let me know if anyone out there can help us out!
Thanks!
Steve Lewis
director, Gotham Radio Players
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 01:33:31 -0500
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Cassette Storage
Anne is a dinosaurs of OTR collectors, as I am. I also have large OTR,
collection all on cassette tapes. I too was using plastic trays. The
ones I use hold 30 cassettes, 3 rows of [removed] In the late
70's up to 1988 I could buy these trays at Walgreens and stores that
sold blank cassettes I have over 100 trays and could use 40 or 50 more,
but nobody makes or sells them anymore the market is gone. I use to buy
the box that held 15 cassette at Radio Shack and, it had a cover. These
day your lucky to buy blank cassettes any [removed]
CD's are the latest state of the art. I am now making trays by cutting
down card board [removed] hold the same number of tapes.
I have really slowed down collecting due to storage space. Those little
plastic boxes add up fast.
My advice to Anne is this spring and summer go to yard and garage sales,
and maybe the boxes will show it. She in Chicago North suburbs and I am
in Chicago suburbs and area always has lots of sales. I have been lucky
several times.
I purchase cassettes and labels from a company in Springfield, Mo that
sell and Mfg. all types of video and audio materials. They sell cassette
albums that hold 6, 8 , 12 , 16 0r 24 cassettes check out their web
site [removed]
Frank McGurn
McHenry, IL
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 02:11:52 -0500
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Helpful Locations
In my city of Manhattan, there are probably more buggy whips in use,
than typewriters.
I love a hansome cab--
But I find it extraordinary that one has to search on the internet for
the necessities of life!
;-)
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 07:56:37 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Fw: Ann of the Airlanes
Kathy inquires:
when was "anne of the airlines" first aired?
When I was digging out materials for my volume "Radio Crime Fighters: Over
300 Programs from the Golden Age" (McFarland, 2002), the closest I was able
to put a broadcast time on this series was "mid 1930s." The quarter-hour
syndicated juvenile adventure was sold in local markets to local sponsors
and ran for 13 weeks for a total of 65 episodes. Ann (note spelling of her
given name) was an airline stewardess whose paths crossed with multiple
facets of political intrigue as she encountered subversive agents and
diamond smugglers -- obviously typical airline passengers of the day. The
program was one of the earliest adolescent features with a heroine instead
of a hero as protagonist. It's correct name was "Ann of the Airlanes."
Jim Cox
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:51:55 -0500
From: "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed];
To: ""old-time radio digest">" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Benny/Allen Feud material
For the person looking for the Benny/Allen Feud material, give me a shout
offlist and I'll take a look around.
I think I have it from an old reel of OTR stuff.
I could send it to you as an MP3 via yousendit.
If anyone else would like it feel free to do the same.
Bill
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:35:57 -0500
From: Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: "Only the names have been [removed]
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Stephen Davies asked how accurate were the cases on DRAGNET, and would he be
able to locate any newspaper stories about the actual crimes. The short
answers are "not very" and "not likely (but not impossible)." In the
earliest radio days, Webb and his writers didn't change too many case
details. An example would be "The Red Light Bandit" episode, which was
obviously drawn from the Caryl Chessman case. Later on, the details were
heavily disguised.
I went into some detail about this in my book, MY NAME'S FRIDAY, where I
contrasted the DRAGNET synopses to the true-life events for two specific
cases. In both instances, there were striking similarities and vast
differences. Based on this, and the interviews I did, I can safely conclude
the following:
1) Names, dates and locations were changed first
2) Motivation for the crime and/or backstory for the perp were usually
invented, for dramatic tension.
3) Witnesses, victims, significant others, early suspects, etc. were created
and given their little "quirks."
4) Sometimes the elements of other, similar cases were added into one story.
(Perfect example: the latter-day "Blue Boy" TV episode, actually based on two
separate cases)
5) The sentence given at the end would have been based on the punishment
received for the crime as depicted in the episode - not necessarily how it
happened in real life. For example, a crime actually comitted by a hardened
three-time loser might show up in DRAGNET committed by a remorseful
first-offender - or vice-versa. In those cases, the actual sentence would
have been different than what you're told on the show. In the "Fat Donna's
baby found in the trash" episode seen on DRAGNET 1969, Webb allegedly
requested that writer Burt Prelutsky make her remorseful at the end;
Prelutsky refused to do it. (Presumably Webb went along with it because
Prelutsky gave Friday a juicy speech - what Webb used to call a "Jesus
speech" - at the close.)
According to David H. Vowell, one of the writers, he would be given a two
or three sentence "notion" that described the bare bones of the case. He
would then be free to invent; in his words "to transform the reality into
drama." However, whatever he invented had to be based on reality - the
procedures used in the episode MUST BE THE SAME as actual procedures the LAPD
would use to solve the case as he (re)created it.
As Vowell told me, "You'd ride around in the sergeant's car. You'd go down
to juvenile hall and talk to the officers. This was to get a sense of what
was happening in the reality; of the language and the place. But DRAGNET
never pretended to be a documentary. The stories were based on fact but with
considerable poetic license, because life is not lived between commercials.
You had to shape the reality into a drama that would hold your attention and
make you want to come back after the commercial."
Vowell was talking about the DRAGNET 1967 days, but the same policy was in
place during the 1950's radio and TV versions also.
Michael
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:36:47 -0500
From: [removed]@[removed] (Marjorie M. Nutt)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: donating collections to colleges
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May I add my two cents about donating collections to colleges? After my
father, tenor James Melton's , death in 1961, my mother donated the
kinescopes from his TV show ("Ford Festival") to Dartmouth College--with
which we had no connection, but which was the only place that
(allegedly) wanted them.
Fast forward 25 years, when I began working at Dartmouth, and tried to
track the kinescopes down. Turns out they'd been in an attic,
uncatalogued and uncared for the entire time. (At least they hadn't been
dumped!) I wrested them from the college and donated them to the Museum
of Television and Radio in NYC, which made me videotape copies of
everything and gave me a nice tx write-off). Happy ending to this
cautionary tale.
Fortunately, I still have many of the airchecks from my father's 1930s
and 40s radio shows in my possession.
Margo Melton Nutt
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:37:04 -0500
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: New England Radio
Here's a link to a documentary broadcast on WCVB
television in Boston regarding New England radio.
WCVB Chronicle "Happy Birthday Radio"
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:39:23 -0500
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Superman's Togs, A Different Tale
Hey, I'm surprised it took me this long to remember:
But in the comics, wasn't it developed, later on, in one of those 1960s
stories, that Superman was always NAKED--
And that he just super-hypnotized anyone who happened to see him with a
subliminal-aural hum, that he constantly emitted, into THINKING he was
dressed?
This also explains why Clark was always in the same suit.
(And why Supergirl, could change her hem, at will. But it was a trick
that Kal-El had to teach her.)
Krypto's cape, however, was the real deal.
;-)
Jim Burns
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:04:51 -0500
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Little Things in Life
Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];, speaking of the WRVO Playhouse,
wrote:
This month, I just noticed the show is featuring 20 episodes of a
1973 NPR revival of Peg Lynch's Ethel and Albert.
Does anybody have a complete (or even incomplete) set of this series,
for sale or trade? It was called, I believe, "The Little Things in
Life." My wife is a huge fan of "The Couple Next Door," and she's
curioius about this show. Also, the wikipedia entry on Peg Lynch states
"a few years ago, Peg Lynch herself authorised the compact disc release
of twelve of the Ethel and Albert vignettes from the Monitor years."
Does anybody know where I can find this?
Thanks,
Kermyt
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