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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 257
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      11-4 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      On The Air                            [ "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
      Another Laughter In Bloom Write-Up    [ seandd@[removed] ]
      11-5 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:59:08 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-4 births/deaths

    November 4th births

    11-04-1879 - Will Rogers, Sr. - Oolagah,  Oklahoma Territory - d.
    8-15-1935
    humorist: (America's Greatest Humorist) "Gulf Headliners"
    11-04-1892 - Philip Featherstone - Illinois - d. 3-19-1969
    mandolin: "Golden Melody Boys"
    11-04-1893 - Howard Hoffman - Ohio - d. 6-27-1969
    actor: Chandu "Chandu the Magician"
    11-04-1896 - Harry Woods - North Chelmsford, MA - d. 1-13-1970
    compser: "Great Moments to Music"
    11-04-1896 - Ian Wolfe - Canton, IL - d. 1-23-1992
    actor: "Suspense"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Escape"
    11-04-1900 - Arthur Schwartz - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-3-1984
    composer: "The Gibson Family"
    11-04-1901 - Helene Dumas - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-23-1986
    actor: "Jane Arden"; "Eno Crime Club"; "Short Short Story"
    11-04-1902 - Frank Jenks - Des Moines, IA - d. 5-13-1962
    actor: "The Navy Comes Through"
    11-04-1904 - Sam Hayes - Cooksville, IL - d. 7-28-1958
    news commentator: "Newstime with Sam Hayes"; "Sperry Breakfast News"
    11-04-1906 - Bob Considine - Washington D. C. - d. 9-25-1975
    announcer: "Fred Waring Show"; "Sports Broadcasts"
    11-04-1906 - Sterling North - Edgerton, WI - d. 12-21-1974
    writer, host, critic: "Of Men and Books"
    11-04-1908 - Colin Simpson - Petersham, Australia - d. xx-xx-1983
    writer: "Six from Borneo"
    11-04-1910 - Abby Lewis - Mesilla Park, NM - d. 11-27-1997
    actor: Telephone Operator "House in the Country"
    11-04-1911 - Dixie Lee Crosby - Harriman, TN - d. 11-1-1952
    actor: (Wife of Bing) "Shell Chateau"; "Bing Crosby Show"
    11-04-1911 - Jack Rose - Warsaw, Russian Empire - d. 10-21-1995
    writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
    11-04-1911 - Josephine Huston - d. 10-19-1967
    vocalist: "Take a Note"
    11-04-1912 - Humphrey Davis - Meriden, CT - d. 5-23-1987
    actor: Al Douglas "Life Can Be Beautiful"; Sheriff Jackson "Tennessee
    Jed"
    11-04-1914 - Court Benson - Vancouver, Canada - d. 2-5-1995
    announcer, narrator: "Tennessee Jed"; "Backstage Wife"
    11-04-1916 - Walter Cronkite - St. Joseph, MO
    newscaster, sportscaster: KCMO, Kansas City; WKY, Oklahoma City
    11-04-1917 - Jean King - Dallas, TX - d. 8-19-1993
    disk jockey: Lonesome Gal "Lonesome Gal"
    11-04-1918 - Art Carney - Mount Vernon, NY - d. 11-9-2003
    actor: Billy Oldham "Joe and Ethel Turp"; General Dwight D. Eisenhower
    "Living 1948"
    11-04-1918 - Cameron Mitchell - Dallastown, PA - d. 7-6-1994
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-04-1918 - Jay Jackson - Stockdale, OH - d. 8-16-2005
    host, announcer: "Broadway Talks Back"; "Radio Reader"s Digest"
    11-04-1919 - Martin Balsam - NYC - d. 2-13-1996
    actor: "Cloak and Dagger"
    11-04-1919 - Shirley Mitchell - Toledo, OH
    actor: Alice Darling "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Leila Ransom "Great
    Gildersleeve"
    11-04-1927 - Bobby Breen - Toronto, Canada
    singer, actor: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    11-04-1930 - Kate Reid - London, England - d. 3-27-1993
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    November 4th deaths

    01-26-1945 - Marti Caine - Sheffield, Yorkshire, England - d. 11-4-1995
    comedian: "The Marti Caine Show"
    02-14-1904 - Bruce Barrington - d. 11-4-1990
    newscaster: WEBQ Harrisburg, Illinois
    03-29-1867 - Cy Young - Gilmore, OH - d. 11-4-1955
    baseball pitching great: "Feature Project: This Game of Baseball"
    04-04-1908 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey - NYC - d. 11-4-2006
    writer: (Cheaper By the Dozen) "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-13-1912 - Phil Alampi - d. 11-4-1992
    farm newscaster: ABC, WJZ New York, New York
    07-20-1902 - Jimmie Tansey - Omaha, NE - d. 11-4-1950
    actor: Danny O'Neill "The O'Neills"; Clement Arnaud "Hilltop House"
    08-02-1890 - Leila Roosevelt - d. 11-4-1973
    explorer: (cousin of FDR) "So You Want to Be"
    08-05-1916 - Elizabeth Bemis - d. 11-4-2004
    newscaster: WLW Cincinnati, Ohio
    09-22-1913 - Chuck Acree - St. Louis, MO - d. 11-4-1991
    emcee: "Hint Club"; We, the Wives"; Ladies Be Seated"
    10-21-1915 - Frances Mercer - New Rochelle, NY - d. 11-4-2000
    actor: "Nothing Serious"
    11-10-1899 - George Storer - Champaign, IL - d. 11-4-1975
    Broadcast Executive
    11-23-1908 - Nelson Bond - Scranton, PA - d. 11-4-2006
    writer: "Hot Copy"; "Suspense"; "Dr. Christian"
    12-02-1913 - Jerry Sohl - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-4-2002
    author: "X Minus One"
    12-27-1893 - Ann Pennington - Camden, NJ - d. 11-4-1971
    actor: "Good News of 1938"
    xx-xx-1913 - Joy Hathaway - British Columbia, Canada - d. 11-4-1954
    actor: Amanda Dyke Leighton "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:59:14 -0400
    From: "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  On The Air

    It's that time again ... actually, I think they're about a month
    late ... but Oxford University Press is having its annual sale of
    John Dunning's "On the Air." So if your previous copy is in two
    (mine has progressed to being in threes) now's the time to get a
    replacement for $[removed] - I think that up $[removed] from last year.
    Usual disclaimers apply.

    [removed]

    Bob Cockrum

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    Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:59:27 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Another Laughter In Bloom Write-Up

    Eddie Carroll is performing on November 7 in Lynwood Washington - details in the following -

    [removed];dept_id=231486&newsid=20184735&PAG=461&rfi=9

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:59:35 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-5 births/deaths

    November 5th births

    11-05-1877 - Henry M. Neely - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-1-1963
    actor, writer, director, producer: "Fitch Bandwagon"
    11-05-1879 - Will Hays - Sullivan, IN - d. 3-7-1954
    puritanical censor: "Republican National Convention 1948"; "A Tribute
    to FDR"
    11-05-1885 - Will Durant - North Adams, MA - d. 11-7-1981
    historian: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
    11-05-1887 - Ralph Moody - St. Louis, MO - d. 9-16-1971
    actor: "Gunsmoke"; "Roy Rogers Show"; "Wild Bill Hickok"
    11-05-1891 - Vinton Freedley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-5-1969
    host: "Theatre USA"
    11-05-1893 - Jean Sothern - d. 4-14-1964
    actor: Edie Gray "Pepper Young's Family"; Connie Rickard "Red Davis"
    11-05-1893 - Theodore von Eltz - New Haven, CT - d. 10-6-1964
    actor: Inspector Fernak "The Saint"
    11-05-1895 - Charles MacArthur - Scranton, PA - d. 4-21-1956
    playwright: "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"; "Chase and Sanborn Hour"
    11-05-1897 - Jan Garber - Norristown, PA - d. 10-5-1977
    bandleader: "Jan Garber Supper Club"
    11-05-1901 - Etta Moten - Weimer, TX - d. 1-2-2004
    singer, actress: "The Laff Parade"; Hollywood Spotlight"
    11-05-1902 - Borrah Minevitch - Kiev, Russia - d. 6-26-1955
    harmonica player: (King of the Harmonica) Had own show on NBC Blue
    11-05-1905 - Annunzio Paolo Mantovani - Venice, Italy - d. 3-29-1980
    orchestra leader: "Music In the Air"; "Of These We Sing"
    11-05-1905 - Joel McCrea - South Pasadena, CA - d. 10-20-1990
    actor: Jace Pearson "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
    11-05-1905 - John Whedon - d. 11-21-1991
    writer: "The Great Gildersleeve"
    11-05-1905 - Thomas Freebairn-Smith - Walton-on-Thames, England - d.
    12-31-1985
    writer, producer: "Jonathan Trimble, Esq."; "Al Pearce and His Gang"
    11-05-1911 - Roy Rogers - Cincinnati, OH - d. 7-6-1998
    singer, actor: (King of the Cowboys) "Roy Rogers Show"; "Saturday Nite
    Round-Up"
    11-05-1913 - Vivien Leigh - Darjeeling, India - d. 7-7-1967
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-05-1914 - Jack McVea - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-27-2000
    saxophonist: "One Night Stand"; "Jubilee"
    11-05-1917 - Claus Adam - Sumatra, Indonesia - d. 7-4-1983
    first cellist: WOR New York
    11-05-1919 - Earl Bennett - Kansas City, KS - d. 10-4-2007
    musician, comedian: Sir Fredrick Gas "Spike Jones and His City Slickers"
    11-05-1919 - Myron Floren - Webster, SD - d. 7-23-2005
    accordianist: "Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music"
    11-05-1922 - Roger Albright - Evanston, IL - d. 11-xx-1987
    writer, producer: "A Home of Your Own"
    11-05-1927 - Robert Abernathy - Geneva, Switzerland
    newscaster: "News on the Hour"
    11-05-1931 - Ike Turner - Clarksdale MS - d. 12-12-2007
    singer: (Ike and Tina) "Lost and Found Sound"
    11-05-1933 - Donald Madden - NYC - d. 1-22-1983
    actor: "Let's Pretend"
    11-05-1937 - Harris Yulin - Los Angles, CA
    actor: "Empire of the Air"
    11-05-1948 - Ruth Welting - Memphis, TN - d. 12-16-1999
    coloratura soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
    11-05-1956 - Jacksondouglas (Douglas Hanford) - Williamsburg, VA
    announcer, producer: "Original Oldies Show"

    November 5th deaths

    01-17-1880 - Mack Sennett - Richmond, Quebec, Canada - d. 11-5-1960
    king of silent comedy: "Hear It Now"; "Biography In Sound"
    01-27-1908 - "Hot Lips" Page - Dallas, TX - d. 11-5-1954
    jazz trumpeter: "Milt Herth Trio"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
    02-05-1884 - Joan Harvey - Bangalore, India - d. 11-5-1965
    writer: "The Hidden Valley"
    02-05-1911 - Bert Wilson - d. 11-5-1955
    chicago cubs play-by-play announcer 1944-1955
    03-11-1922 - Vinnette Carroll - NYC - d. 11-5-2002
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    03-20-1904 - Bob Chester - Detroit, MI - d. 11-5-1975
    bandleader: "Bob Chester and His Orchestra"
    04-09-1903 - Ward Bond - Denver, CO - d. 11-5-1960
    actor: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    06-19-1902 - Guy Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 11-5-1977
    bandleader: (The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven) "Lombardoland USA"
    06-29-1895 - Paul V. Galvin - Harvard, IL - d. 11-5-1959
    co-founder of Galvin Manufacturing, merged with Motorola
    07-03-1878 - George M. Cohan - Providence, RI - d. 11-5-1942
    composer: "Collier Hour"; "Ed Sullivan Show"; "Free Company"
    08-05-1887 - Reginald Owen - Wheathampton, England - d. 11-5-1972
    actor, writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-30-1908 - Fred MacMurray - Kankakee, IL - d. 11-5-1991
    actor: George Harvey "Bright Star"; "Lux Radio Theatre
    08-31-1906 - Ruth Weston - Boston, MA - d. 11-5-1955
    actor: Maude Kellogg "Life Can Be Beautiful"
    09-11-1899 - Jimmie Davis - Quitman, LA - d. 11-5-2000
    Louisiana's Singing Governor: "Songs By Sinatra"
    09-28-1901 - William S. Paley - Chicago, IL - d. 11-5-1990
    Founder and president of CBS
    09-28-1909 - Al Capp - New Haven, CT - d. 11-5-1979
    cartoonist: Creator of "Li'l Abner"; "Monitor"
    10-01-1904 - Vladimir Horowitz - Kiev, Ukraine, Russia - d. 11-5-1989
    piano virtuoso: "GuestStar"; "Pictures At An Exhibition"
    10-12-1885 - Vladimir Bakaleinikoff - Moscow, Russia - d. 11-5-1953
    conductor: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; WLW Cincinnati, Ohio
    10-13-1909 - Art Tatum - Toledo, OH - d. 11-5-1956
    pianist: David Rose Orchestra
    10-20-1934 - Eddie Harris - Chicago, IL - d. 11-5-1996
    jazz saxophonist: "Voices of Vista"
    12-15-1916 - Buddy Cole - Irving, IL - d. 11-5-1964
    musician: (Buddy Cole Trio) "Ginny Simms Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 02:12:01 -0500
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

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