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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2010 : Issue 17
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  A Little Clara - fication             [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Unshackled                            [ Randy Larson <jackbenny1@[removed]; ]
  Re: Betty White on Gildersleeve       [ Jordan Young <jordanyoung50@sbcglob ]
  Dayton Allen; CBC questions           [ Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed]; ]
  1-26 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  1-27 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Shirley Bell Cole                     [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
  Shirley Bell Cole - Little Orphan An  [ Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed]; ]
  1-28 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:05:08 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  A Little Clara - fication

1931   NBC introduced listeners to Clara, Lu 'n' Em on its Blue network.
The show became the first daytime radio serial when it was moved from
its original nighttime slot.

For clarification purposes, it became the first NETWORK daytime radio
serial.  Let's not negate the credit rightfully due creator Irna Phillips
for Painted Dreams, aired Monday through Saturday in the daytime over
Chicago's WGN starting October 20, 1930.  Nobody is yet to prove it wasn't
the cornerstone of a new genre of dramas, to be perennially known as soap
operas but also referred to as daytime dramas, washboard weepers, sudsy
sagas, dishpan dramas, et al.

Painted Dreams dripped from a pipeline that had already produced several
antecedents leading to that forthcoming strain.  While not actual branches
of the tree, these could certainly be called seedlings from which that
mighty timber sprang:

Sam 'n' Henry, WGN, debuting January 12, 1926, which was soon to become Amos
'n' Andy

The Smith Family, WENR, premiering 1927, which was soon to be built on and
reemerge as Fibber McGee & Molly

The Rise of the Goldbergs, WJZ, 1929

Moonshine and Honeysuckle, a half-hour continuing tale featuring earthy
colloquialisms of Southern mountaineers, on Sunday afternoons over NBC, 1930

Clara, Lu 'n' Em, WGN, June 1930, a humorous nighttime quarter-hour
dialogue, transferring to NBC Blue weekday mornings on February 15, 1932
(note the year of its arrival in sunlight)

By the time daily episodes of Painted Dreams premiered, groundwork had been
laid to the far reaches of the giant broadcasting towers in the Windy City
and Big Apple for dayitme programming with continuing action.  Among the
discoveries in all of this was that there was an immense audience standing
by to be entertained on the installment plan.

Jim Cox

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:05:12 -0500
From: Randy Larson <jackbenny1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Unshackled
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It warms my heart to see Craig and others mention the on-going contribution
Unshackled is making to the concept of old time radio.  I have had the
pleasure of being a semi-regular pool actor on the show, appearing on about 25
of the tapings/broadcasts.  The special AFTRA contract with The Pacific Garden
Mission in Chicago has allowed a good number of actors to be hired weekly,
every week since 1950.

I have had the honor of performing alongside such
great, golden age Chicago
radio talent as the late Jack Bivans (mentioned by
Craig), Russ Reed, and many
others, in front of live audiences of 200-300,
with organ and full sound
effects artists.  What a dream come true for this
Baby Boomer!

Randy Larson

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:05:17 -0500
From: Jordan Young <jordanyoung50@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Betty White on Gildersleeve

The Screen Actors Guild also mentioned on their website that Betty
White appeared on such radio shows as "Blondie," "This is Your FBI,"
and the first incarnation of "The Betty White Show."

Jordan R. Young

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:05:26 -0500
From: Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Dayton Allen; CBC questions

 I didn't catch all the posts so, I don't know if someone has mentioned this.
In addition to his many activities, Dayton Allen also provided the voice for
cartoon's Deputy Dawg, enforcer of "the legal law, there, Muskie." This was
where I first heard his famous "why not?"
 A couple CBC program questions: does anyone know if there are recordings of:
Frank Willis' late night program "Nocturne"? I'm interested in the opening
poem, which he wrote: As music builds a bright, impermanent tower, High in
the [removed]" The other program is Jake and the Kid, which starred the
great Canadian actor, John Drainie.
 Thanks,
   Bob

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:05:32 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-26 births/deaths

January 26th births

01-26-1880 - Douglas MacArthur - Little Rock, AR - d. 4-5-1964
general: "Special Broadcast from Tokyo"
01-26-1885 - Hugh Barrett Dobbs - d. 2-20-1944
actor: Captain Dobbsie "Ship of Joy"
01-26-1892 - Guy Robertson - Denver, CO - d. unknown
singing host: "Broadway Varieties"
01-26-1899 - Wyllis Cooper - Pekin, IL - d. 6-22-1955
producer, writer, director: "Lights Out"; "Quiet Please"
01-26-1905 - Margaret Cousins - Munday, TX - d. 7-30-1996
writer: "Holmes Radio Magazine"
01-26-1905 - Maria von Trapp - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 3-28-1987
singer: (Trapp Family Singers) "Christmas Seal Sale"
01-26-1907 - Eddie Ballentine - Chicago, IL - d. 11-14-1995
orchestra leader: "Don McNeill's Breakfast Club"
01-26-1907 - Rita Ascot - d. 3-6-1988
actor: "Fay "Ma Perkins"; "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
01-26-1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen - Syracuse, NY - d. 2-6-1990
composer: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Command Performance"
01-26-1913 - William Prince - Nichols, NY - d. 10-8-1996
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"
01-26-1914 - Jack de Manio - Hampstead, England - d. 10-28-1988
announcer: "Today"; "Jack de Manio Precisely"; "Woman's Hour"
01-26-1914 - Phoebe Ephron - NYC - d. 10-13-1971
author: "Lux RadioTheatre"
01-26-1918 - Vito Scotti - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-5-1996
actor: "Romance"; "Broadway Is My Beat"
01-26-1919 - Jan Bart - Poland - d. 8-12-1971
traveled with Major Bowes for 7 years, had his own radio show
01-26-1922 - Michael Bentine - Watford, Hertfordshie, England - d.
11-26-1996
comedian: "Goon Show"
01-26-1922 - Page Cavanaugh - Cherokee, KS - d. 12-18-2008
singer: (The Page Cavanaugh Trio) "The Jack Paar Show"
01-26-1925 - Joan Leslie - Detroit, MI
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-26-1927 - Billy Redfield - NYC - d. 8-17-1976
actor: Grayling Dennis "Brighter Day"; Willie Piper "Tales of Willie
Piper"
01-26-1927 - Ronnie Hilton - Hull, England - d. 2-21-2001
singer: "Sounds of the Fifties"
01-26-1935 - Bob Uecker - Milwaukee, WI
baseball announcer: "Milwaukee Brewers"
01-26-1937 - Alison Steele - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-27-1995
disk jockey: "The Nightbird"
01-26-1945 - Marti Caine - Sheffield, Yorkshire, England - d. 11-4-1995
comedian: "The Marti Caine Show"

January 26th deaths

01-08-1909 - Jose Ferrer - Santurce, PR - d. 1-26-1992
actor: Philo Vance "Advs. of Philo Vance"; Minister "We Love and Learn"
02-14-1897 - Victor Lindlahr - d. 1-26-1969
commentator: "Talks on Diet"
04-02-1917 - Gertrude Warner - Hartford, CT - d. 1-26-1986
actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow"; Christy Allen "Against the Storm"
04-26-1922 - Eric Sinclair - Burkburnett, TX - d. 1-26-2004
actor: "Alias Jane Doe"
04-28-1916 - Rena Craig Waxman - Denver, CO - d. 1-26-2003
actor: "School of Charm"
05-17-1897 - Fletcher Wiley - d. 1-26-1966
commentator: "Your Home Front Reporter"
06-05-1914 - J. Donald Wilson - d. 1-26-1984
creator, writer, producer: "The Whistler"; "Advs. of Nero Wolfe";
"Dark Venture"
06-19-1894 - Emil Coleman - Odessa, Russia - d. 1-26-1965
orchestra leader: "Penthouse Party"; "Gulf Headliners"
07-08-1908 - Nelson Rockefeller - Bar Harbor, ME - d. 1-26-1979
vice president: Helped fund "Hello Americans" with Orson Welles
08-09-1905 - Leo Genn - London, England - d. 1-26-1978
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-24-1905 - Wilbur 'Bill' P. Bardo - d. 1-26-1975
bandleader: "One Night Stand"
10-02-1900 - Cecil Roy - St. Paul, MN - d. 1-26-1995
actor: (Girl of a Thousand Voices) Junior Fitz "Ma Perkins"
10-09-1899 - Goebel (Leon) Reeves - Sherman, TX - d. 1-26-1959
singer, yodeler: "Rudy Vallee Show"
10-17-1912 - Jack Owens - Tulsa, OK - d. 1-26-1982
vocalist: Cruising Crooner "The Breakfast Club"; "Tin Pan Alley"
11-06-1892 - Ole Olsen - Wabash, IN - d. 1-26-1963
comedian: (Olsen and Johnson); "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Breakfast Club"
12-05-1901 - Grace Moore - Jellico, TN - d. 1-26-1947
opera singer: "General Motors Concerts"; "Speed Show"; "Vicks Open
House"
12-10-1913 - Jean Dickenson - Montreal, Canada - d. 1-26-2007
singer: (Nightingale of the Airwaves) "American Album of Familiar Music"
12-12-1893 - Edward G. Robinson - Bucharest, Romania - d. 1-26-1973
actor: Steve Wilson "Big Town"
12-15-1915 - Margaret Hayes - Baltimore, MD - d. 1-26-1977
actor: "Silver Theatre"
12-19-1888 - Mabel Brownell - Cincinnati, OH - d. 1-26-1972
actor: "Polly witha Past"

Ron

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:05:42 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-27 births/deaths

January 27th births

01-27-1885 - Jerome Kern - NYC - d. 11-11-1945
composer: "Railroad Hour"; "Show Boat"
01-27-1886 - Bessie Beatty - d. 4-6-1947
hostess: Martha Deane
01-27-1888 - Harry "Singin' Sam" Frankel - Danville, KY - d. 6-12-1948
singer: (The Barbasol Man) "Reminiscin' with Singin' Sam"
01-27-1895 - B. G. De Sylva - NYC - d. 7-11-1950
lyricist: "The Railroad Hour"
01-27-1895 - Harry Ruby - NYC - d. 2-23-1974
songwriter: "Thirty Minutes in Hollywood"; "Great Moments to Music"
01-27-1895 - Violet Heming - Leeds, Yorkshire, England - d. 7-4-1981
actor: Connie Wakefield "Right to Happiness"
01-27-1899 - Milton Rettenberg - NYC - d. 12-24-1986
pianist/conductor: "Chesterfield Presents"; "Cities Service Concerts"
01-27-1904 - Frankie Marvin - Butler, Indian Territory, Oklahoma - d.
1-18-1985
actor: "Gene Autry's Melody Rance"
01-27-1905 - Howard McNear - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-3-1969
actor: Doctor Charles Adams "Gunsmoke"
01-27-1907 - Theodore Epp - Oklahoma Territory - d. 10-13-1985
preacher: "Back to the Bible"
01-27-1908 - "Hot Lips" Page - Dallas, TX - d. 11-5-1954
jazz trumpeter: "Milt Herth Trio"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
01-27-1911 - Benay Venuta - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-1-1995
singer: "Benay Venuta's Program"; "Shell Chateau"
01-27-1914 - Alexander Albert Avola - Boston, MA - d. 1-20-2000
guitarist/arranger: Artie Shaw Orchestra; Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
01-27-1916 - Merrill Mueller - NYC - d. 11-30-1980
reporter: "NBC Stands By"; "Morning News Roundup"; "The Navy Hour"
01-27-1918 - Irving Cummings - d. 3-26-1996
producer, host: "Lux Radio Theater"; "Gulf Screen Theatre"
01-27-1918 - Skitch Henderson - Birmingham, England - d. 11-1-2005
bandleader: "Philco Radio Time"; "Songs by Sinatra"
01-27-1921 - Donna Reed - Dennison, IA - d. 1-14-1986
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Star and the Story"; "Silver Theatre"
01-27-1924 - Sabu - Mysore, India - d. 12-2-1963
actor: "Confidential Close-Ups"

January 27th deaths

01-21-1904 - Allen Prescott - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-27-1978
host: "Wife Saver"; "Prescott Presents"
02-08-1915 - George "Doc" Abraham - Wayland, NY - d. 1-27-2005
gardner, host: "The Green Thumb"
03-16-1901 - Edward Pawley - Kansas City, KS - d. 1-27-1988
actor: Steve Wilson "Big Town"
03-19-1920 - Tige Andrews - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-27-2007
actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
03-29-1898 - Cecil Lewis - Birkenhead, England - d. 1-27-1997
pioneer in British broadcasting instrumental in creation of the BBC
05-01-1918 - Jack Paar - Canton, OH - d. 1-27-2004
comedian: "Jack Paar Show"; "Take It or Leave It"
05-20-1916 - William D. Carey - Hollister, CA - d. 1-27-2004
actor and singer
06-13-1887 - Edward 'Senator' Ford - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-27-1970
panelist: "Can You Top This"
06-23-1910 - Edward P. Morgan - Walla Walla, WA - d. 1-27-1993
newscaster: "News and Commentary"
06-27-1912 - Bill Kennedy - Cleveland Heights, OH - d. 1-27-1997
announcer: "Nobody's Children"
07-03-1911 - Pembroke Davenport - Dallas, TX - d. 1-27-1985
pianist, arranger: "Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians"
08-12-1898 - Oscar Homolka - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-27-1978
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-13-1918 - Bobb Carroll, Jr. - d. 1-27-2007
writer: "It's A Great Life"; "My Favorite Husband"
08-20-1888 - Julia Sanderson - Springfield, MA - d. 1-27-1975
singer, emcee: "Blackstone Plantation"; "Battle of the Sexes"; "Let's
Be Charming"
10-13-1900 - Gerald Marks - Saginaw, MI - d. 1-27-1997
tin pan alley composer: "Great Days We Honor"
10-26-1911 - Mahalia Jackson - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-27-1972
gospel singer: (The Angel of Peace) "Mahalia Jackson Show"
xx-xx-1911 - Lou Crosby - Lawton, OK - d. 1-27-1984
announcer: "Rise Stevens Show"; "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Lum and
Abner"

Ron

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:06:00 -0500
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Shirley Bell Cole

Shirley Bell Cole, who played Little Orphan Annie on radio has died 
(Jan. 12th)

LA Times has an obit
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Chicago Tribune

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Didn't see it in the Digest yet.

jfw

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:06:25 -0500
From: Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Shirley Bell Cole - Little Orphan Annie

1/27 LA TIMES obit for Shirley Bell Cole, who died 1/12:
[removed],0,[removed]

No mention of her 2005 memoir, ACTING HER AGE: MY TEN YEARS AS A TEN- 
YEAR-OLD, which seems to be an expensive collector's item. Since the  
publisher, Stinehour Press, is now defunct, someone should reprint.

Bhob @ Potrzebie: [removed]

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:06:32 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-28 births/deaths

January 28th births

01-28-1880 - Mary Boland - Detroit, MI - d. 6-23-1965
01-28-1882 - Richard Barrows - Buffalo, NY - d. 8-xx-1969
actor: "Death Valley Days", "Ellery Queen"; "Second Husband"
01-28-1886 - Hidetsugu Yagi - Osaka, Japan - d. 1-19-1976
radio antenna designer
01-28-1887 - Artur Rubinstein - Lodz, Poland, Russian Empire - d.
12-20-1982
pianist: "Information Please"
01-28-1892 - Ernst Lubitsch - Berlin Germany - d. 11-30-1947
film director: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-28-1898 - Alwyn E. W. Bach - Springfield, MA - d. 5-14-1993
announcer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"; "Luden's Orchestra"; "Real Folks"
01-28-1900 - Mahlon Merrick - Farmington, IA - d. 8-7-1969
music: "Jack Benny Program"; "Skippy Hollywood Theatre"
01-28-1904 - Constance Crowder - Chicago, IL - d. 5-30-1994
actor: Jane Webster "Those Websters"; Gert Truitt "The Truitts"
01-28-1904 - Irene Beasley - Whitehaven TN - d. 1-7-1980
actor: Old Dutch Girl "Red Hook 31"; "Grand Slam"
01-28-1907 - Martin Ryerson - NYC
writer: "Suspense"; "Molle Mystery Theatre"; "Gangbusters"
01-28-1910 - Arnold Moss - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-15-1989
actor: Philip Cameron "Against the Storm"; Reed Bannister "Big Sister"
01-28-1911 - Donald Briggs - Chicago, IL - d. 2-3-1986
actor: Frank Merriwell "Advs. of Frank Merriwell"
01-28-1911 - William Palmer - d. 6-6-1996
co-creator of the Palmer-Mullin tape deck first used by Bing Crosby
01-28-1912 - Monty Masters - New Haven, CT - d. 12-9-1969
actor, producer: "The Mad Masters"; "Candy Matson"
01-28-1914 - Arthur Gary - NYC - d. 10-31-2005
announcer: "The Amazing Mr. Malone"; "The Colgate Sports Newsreel"
01-28-1914 - Nelson Olmstead - Minnesota - d. 4-8-1992
actor: Joe Huston "Bachelor's Children"
01-28-1914 - Tom Neal - Evanston, IL - d. 8-7-1972
actor: "I Am An American"; "The Unexpected"
01-28-1915 - Jud Denaut - Walkerton, IN - d. 4-5-1999
bassist: "Woody Herman and His Orchestra"
01-28-1921 - Alfred Marks - London, England - d. 7-1-1996
actor: "Beginners Please"
01-28-1921 - Jerry Appy - d. 6-24-1990
sportscaster: KXXX Colby, Kansas
01-28-1926 - Randy Armbrister - d. 9-xx-1968
disk jockey: WYVE Whytheville, Virginia
01-28-1929 - Bill Gilliand - Memphis, TN - d. 5-9-2008
announcer: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
01-28-1931 - Ezio Flagello - NYC - d. 3-19-2009
opera singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
01-28-1935 - Nicholas Pryor - Baltimore, MD
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
01-28-1937 - Ken Hill - Birmingham, England - d. 1-23-1995
writer: "Night Season"

January 28th deaths

02-17-1881 - Arthur Judson - d. 1-28-1975
executive: Founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System
03-02-1923 - Jean Metcalfe - Reigate, England - d. 1-28-2000
announcer, presenter: "Two-Way Family Favourites"
03-29-1923 - Bob Stanton - White Plains, NY - d. 1-28-1989
vocalist: (Brother of Dick Haymes) "The Sealtest Village Store"
03-31-1923 - Thomas Arim - d. 1-28-2003
disk jockey: "Birthday Party"
04-21-1927 - Jose Miguel Agrelot - San Juan, Puerto Rico - d. 1-28-2004
comedian: Torito "The College of Happiness"
04-24-1897 - Alfred Brown - d. 1-28-1978
actor: Og "Og, Son of Fire"
04-29-1912 - John MacVane - Portland, ME - d. 1-28-1984
newscaster: "United or Not"
05-04-1902 - Al Dexter - Jacksonville, TX - d. 1-28-1984
singer, songwriter: (Pistol Packn' Mama) "Command Performance"
05-24-1911 - Lilli Palmer - Posen, Germany - d. 1-28-1986
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-03-1922 - Joy Shelton - London, England - d. 1-28-2000
actor: "PC 49"
06-17-1923 - Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch - Wausau, WI - d. 1-28-2004
pro football hall of fame, host: "Elroy Hirsch Sports Show";
"Touchdown Tips"
07-20-1905 - Murray Forbes - Chicago, IL - d. 1-28-1987
actor: Willie Fitz "Ma Perkins"; Benny Fox "Foxes of Flatbush"
08-14-1913 - Ferrucio Tagliavini - Reggio Emilia, Italy - d. 1-28-1995
lyric tenor: "Encores from the Bell Telephone Hour"
08-15-1897 - Aben Kandel - d. 1-28-1993
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-24-1916 - Hal Smith - Petosky, MI - d. 1-28-1994
singer, piccolo: "California Melodies"
09-07-1886 - Alan Devitt - d. 1-28-1955
actor: "Famous Jury Trial"; "The March of Time"
09-12-1919 - Norma Jean Ross - Fremont, NE - d. 1-28-1983
actor: "Scattergood Baines"; "Author's Playhouse"
09-26-1900 - Ray Kinney - Hawaii - d. 1-28-1972
interpreter of Hawaiian rhythm: Sporadic timeslots on the Blue Network
10-13-1901 - Frank Remley - d. 1-28-1967
left handed guitarist: The Phil Harris Orchestra
10-22-1907 - Roger DeKoven - Chicago, IL - d. 1-28-1988
actor: Professor Allen, "Against the Storm"

Ron

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