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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2016 : Issue 80
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      American OTR dramas on BBC Radio ove  [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      Jack Armstrong's 1944 Tru-Flite Mode  [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]

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    Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:47:45 -0500
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  American OTR dramas on BBC Radio over Christmas
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     Hi
    Link below might be of interest:

    BBC - Mystery Theater - The Humphrey Bogart Theatre: Dead Man - Media Centre
     Radio 4 Extra presents an hour from the golden years of American radio in the
    1940s and 50s, when many of [removed]

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    Cheers ! Graeme

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    Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:48:07 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jack Armstrong's 1944 Tru-Flite Model Airplanes

    I'm working on a article which will be published in THE ILLUSTRATED PRESS and
    RADIO RECALL next February. It will detail the history of the set of fourteen
    war planes that sponsor General Mills offered in 1944 to Jack Armstrong fans.
    Each one of them was printed in full color and the recipient would then cut
    out all the parts and assemble the craft. They contained virtually no
    instruction for assembly so a kid had to know his stuff to complete one
    correctly.

    They were advertised as being able to [removed] they were, well sorta. You
    placed a penny between the fuselage and the engine cowl for weight and when
    you threw it in the air, it glided for several feet, akin to those balsam
    glider toy airplanes of the era.

    The complete set, all fighters or pursuit planes, included five American
    craft and four of our Allies: two British and two Russian. So kids could have
    make-believe dog-fights in the air, included were also enemy war planes:
    three Japanese and two German ones.

    I'm trying to sort out the confusion regarding how they were distributed by
    General Mills. Advertisements from that era reflect that they were printed on
    the back of boxes of Wheaties but they were also available by mail. It could
    be that this project was handled like the Lone Ranger Frontier Village in
    which a few of the buildings appeared on Cheerios boxes, but you had to send
    in your coins and boxtops to General Mills for the rest plus the four section
    maps to place them on.

    Any Digesters have a copy of any 1944 Jack Armstrong programs that would
    explain what was offered to radio fans regarding these war planes? Surely
    these were pitched on the broadcasts by Jack Armstrong or his announcer.

    Thanks very much,

    Jack French
    Editor:  RADIO RECALL
     Metro Washington OTR Club

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