Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #364
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Date: 11/26/2005 9:17 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 364
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Razor blade radios                    [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  11-25 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  reel to reel tapes for sale           [ <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; ]
  Help!                                 [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
  Broadway is My Beat - Ross Lock       [ Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@yahoo ]
  11-26 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:25:49 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Razor blade radios

Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:16:04 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];

As far as the diode is concerned, during World War II, many GIs made
"razor blade radios," by using a cat's whisker probe on a razor blade.

When I was in 4th grade, someone gave me a book about how radio and television worked -- 
"All About Radio and Television" by Jack Gould -- and one chapter contained instructions for 
making a razor blade radio.  This version used a safety pin, with a piece of pencil lead 
attached to the point, as the cat's whiskers.  The enhanced version called for a real crystal 
and cat's whiskers.  The final enhancement added a variable capacitor -- or "condenser" as 
they used to be called.

I never actually made the radio, but it was fun to read about, and I still have the book.

-- A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed] 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax [removed] Boston, MA 02108-2503 [removed] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:25:57 -0500 From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: 11-25 births/deaths November 25th births 11-25-1893 - Jack Frost - Boston, MA - d. 10-21-1959 producer: "The National Barn Dance" 11-25-1894 - Laurence Stallings - Macon, GA - d. 2-28-1968 writer: "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt" based on his play "What Price Glory?" 11-25-1896 - Virgil Thomson - Kansas City, MO - d. 9-30-1989 composer: "Columbia Workshop" 11-25-1897 - Willie 'The Lion' Smith - Goshen, NY - d. 4-18-1973 jazz pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts" 11-25-1899 - Kay Strozzi - Swan's Point Plantation, VA - 1-18-1996 actress: Shelia Blade "I Love Linda Dale"; Victoria Lorring "Young Widder Brown" 11-25-1900 - Helen Gahagan Douglas - Boonton, NJ - d. 6-28-1980 actress: (Wife of Melvin Douglas) "Hollywood Fights Back"; "A Report to the Nation" 11-25-1904 - Jessie Royce Landis - Chicago, IL - d. 2-2-1972 actress: "We Are Always Young" 11-25-1905 - Will Osborne - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1981 bandleader, singer: "Abbott and Costello" 11-25-1912 - Henry Denker - New York, NY writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Greatest Story Ever Told" 11-25-1914 - Joe DiMaggio - Martinez, CA - d. 3-8-1999 baseball superstar: "Joe DiMaggio Show" 11-25-1916 - Peg Lynch - Lincoln, NE writer, actress: Ethel Arbuckle "Ethel and Albert"; "Couple Next Door" 11-25-1919 - Norman Tokar - Newark, NJ - d. 4-6-1979 actor: Henry Aldrich "The Aldrich Family" 11-25-1920 - Ricardo Montalban - Mexico City, Mexico actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "As Easy as [removed]" November 25th deaths 04-04-1914 - Rosemary Lane - Indianola, IA - d. 11-25-1974 singer: (The Lane Sisters) "Fred Waring Show"; "Your Hollywood Parade" 04-29-1912 - Richard Carlson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 11-25-1977 actor: "Lux Radio Theatre" 06-16-1907 - Jack Albertson - Malden, MA - d. 11-25-1981 actor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Cavalcade of America" 07-13-1889 - Frank M. Thomas - St. Joseph, MO - d. 11-25-1989 actor: Police Captain "Martin Kane, Private Eye" 07-30-1912 - Edward L. Bliss - Fizhou, China - d. 11-25-2002 cbs news correspondent: (One of Morrow's Boys) CBS News Twentieth Century Roundup" 08-28-1895 - H. Norman Schwarzkopf - Newark, NJ - d. 11-25-1958 narrator: "Gangbusters" 12-25-1907 - Matt Brooks - New York, NY - d. 11-25-1990 writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show" -- Ron Sayles Milwaukee, Wisconsin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:02:37 -0500 From: <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; To: [removed]@[removed] Subject: reel to reel tapes for sale I'm selling 9 brand new ampex 1800' 641 reel to reel tapes - best offer accepted Howard Blue ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:03:18 -0500 From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed]; To: [removed]@[removed] Subject: Help! X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain I saw an old eps of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" last night on TV. They brought back several OTR performers and had them perform on the show they were writing for. One of them, in particular, caught my attention. I never got her name, but was told that she was referred to as "The Human Chatterbox". My curiosity is getting the best of me. Does anyone know what her name was? Another OTR Fan, Kenneth Clarke *** This message was altered by the server, and may not appear *** *** as the sender intended. *** ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:01:59 -0500 From: Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@[removed]; To: [removed]@[removed] Subject: Broadway is My Beat - Ross Lock Hi, I've been enjoying the very excellent series Broadway is My Beat. Does a complete dub exist of 12/28/51. By the time I did some of them, a few transcriptions had deteriorated and unfortunately my copy is missing the first 6 minutes. Trav ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:10:43 -0500 From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: 11-26 births/deaths November 26th births 11-26-1891 - Anne Nichols - Dales Mill, GA - d. 9-15-1966 writer: "Abie's Irish Rose" 11-26-1905 - Emlyn Williams - Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales - d. 9-25-1987 actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin" 11-26-1907 - Francis Dee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-6-2004 actress: "Lux Radio Theatre" 11-26-1907 - Henry "Hot Lips" Levine - London, England - d. 5-6-1989 trumpeter, conducter: "Chamber Music of Lower Basin Street"; "Strictly from Dixie" 11-26-1910 - Cyril Cusack - Durban, South Africa - d. 10-7-1993 actor: "Great Expectations" 11-26-1911 - Robert Donley - Carmichaels, PA - d. 1-20-2004 actor: "Lieutenant Carpenter "Front Page Farrell" 11-26-1912 - Eric Sevareid - Velva, ND - d. 7-9-1992 correspondent: "Eric Sevaried and the News"; "CBS Radio Workshop" 11-26-1913 - Bill Baldwin - Pueblo, CO - d. 11-17-1982 announcer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Mario Lanza Show" 11-26-1915 - Earl Wild - Pittsburgh, PA pianist: KDKS Pittsburgh; "NBC Symphony Orchestra" 11-26-1917 - Adele Jergens - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-22-2002 actress: Carol Curtis "Stand By For Crime" 11-26-1919 - Frederick Pohl - New York, NY writer: "X-Minus One" 11-26-1933 - Robert Goulet - Lawrence, MA singer-actor: "Guard Session"; "Voices of Vista" November 26th deaths 01-26-1922 - Michael Bentine - Watford, Hertfordshie, England - d. 11-26-1996 comedian: "Goon Show" 02-04-1909 - Robert Coote - London, England - d. 11-26-1982 actor: "Campbell Playhouse" 04-12-1902 - John White - d. 11-26-1992 country/western singer: Lonesome Cowboy "Death Valley Days" 05-06-1906 - Mathilde Ferror - d. 11-26-1990 writer: "Lorenzo Jones" 05-23-1910 - Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers - Terre Haute, IN - d. 11-26-1986 jazz musician: early radio into the 40s 06-18-1885 - Ernie Adams - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-26-1947 actor: "Lux Radio Theatre" 07-23-1883 - Albert Warner - Poland - d. 11-26-1967 co-founder of warner brothers: "Warner Brothers Academy Theatre" 10-15-1898 - Ransom Sherman - Appleton, WI - d. 11-26-1985 actor: Uncle Dennis "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Hap Hazard "Hap Hazard" 10-16-1903 - "Wild Bill" Elliott (Gordon Nance) - Pattonsburg, MO - d. 11-26-1965 actor: Wild Bill Elliott "Wild Bill Elliott" 11-19-1905 - Tommy Dorsey - Shenandoah, PA - d. 11-26-1956 bandleader: "Jack Pearl Program"; "Fame and Fortune"; "Tommy Dorsey Show" xx-xx-1879 - Julian Noa - d. 11-26-1958 actor: Perry White "Advs. of Superman"; Judge Scott "The O'Neills" -- Ron Sayles Milwaukee, Wisconsin -------------------------------- End of [removed] Digest V2005 Issue #364 ********************************************* Copyright [removed] Communications, York, PA; All Rights Reserved, including republication in any form. 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