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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2015 : Issue 103
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Brain Blip At Midnight                [ skallisjr@[removed] ]
  OTR History Help                      [ Radioclass <radioclass@[removed] ]

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    ADMINISTRIVIA:

We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the
communication below, expressing at the same time our great
gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends
of The Sun: 

Dear Editor, I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. 
Papa says "If you see it in The Sun it's so."
Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?
         Virginia O'Hanlon
         115 West Ninety-fifth St.


VIRGINIA, Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected
by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except
they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible
by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or
children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere
insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world
about him, as measured by the intelligence of grasping the whole of
truth and knowledge 

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love
and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and
give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would
be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as
if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then,
no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should
have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with
which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. 

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!
You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on
Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa
Claus coming down what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus but
that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things
in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you
ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no
proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the
wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. 

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside,
but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest
man, not even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever
lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance,
can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty
and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world
there is nothing else real and abiding. 

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand
years from now, Virginia, nay ten times ten thousand years from now,
he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. 

   -- Editorial page of the New York Sun, September 21, 1897


 From our entire family to yours - Annie, Katie, and yours truly; no
 matter what you are celebrating at this truly amazing time of the
 year, Happy Holidays!

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 11:36:27 -0500
From: skallisjr@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Brain Blip At Midnight

In discussing the closing season of the Captain Midnight program, I
wrote,

Ed Prentiss, didn't assume the role in the half-hour programs:
another actor, Bill Bouchey, played the character

My entry was in error.  Bill Bouchey played Captain Midnight while the
show was sponsored by Skelly Oil; he was followed by Ed Prentiss, first
on the Skelly-sponsored programs, then on all the Ovaltine-sponsored
serial-format programs.  The final, half-hour programs had the character
played by Paul Barnes.

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 11:36:34 -0500
From: Radioclass <radioclass@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OTR History Help

A great resource for help on collecting radio is Chuck Schaden.
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Chuck began broadcasting old time radio programs in 1970 and continued into
the new millennium.  He turned over his show to Steve Darnell in 2009 who
continues to broadcast old time radio.

Anne Walker

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