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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 165
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  10-15 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  10-12 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:15:48 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-15 births/deaths

October 15th births

10-15-1879 - Jane Darwell - Palmyra, MO - d. 8-13-1967
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-15-1879 - Sara Allgood - Dublin, Ireland - d. 9-13-1950
actor: "Radio Guild"; "Family Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-15-1881 - P. G. Wodehouse - Guildford, Surrey, England - d. 2-14-1975
author: (Jeeves and Wooster) "Forecast"; "Stagestruck"
10-15-1893 - Ina Claire - Washington, [removed] - d. 2-22-1985
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-15-1896 - Joe Sanders - Thayer, KS - d. 5-14-1965
bandleader: (The Ole Left Hander) "Nighthawks Frolic"
10-15-1898 - Ransom Sherman - Appleton, WI - d. 11-26-1985
actor: Uncle Dennis "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Hap Hazard "Hap Hazard"
10-15-1900 - Fritz Feld - Berlin, Germany - d. 11-18-1993
actor: "NBC Uinversity Theatre"; "Nightbeat"; "Advs. of the Saint"
10-15-1900 - Mervyn LeRoy - San Francisco,CA - d. 9-13-1987
film director: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Songs By
Sinatra"
10-15-1908 - Gus Hatula - d. 10-9-1997
audio engineer for WXYZ
10-15-1908 - Herman Chittison - Flemingsburg, KY - d. 3-8-1967
jazz pianist: "Casey, Crime Photographer"; "The Gloom Dodgers"
10-15-1908 - John Kenneth Galbraith - Iona Station, Canada - d.
4-28-2006
economist: "University of Chicago Round Table"; "Meet the Press"
10-15-1909 - Robert Trout - Wake County, NC - d. 11-14-2000
commentator: "Headlines & Bylines"; "Robert Trout with the News Til Now"
10-15-1912 - Vivian Fridell - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-20-1998
actor: Mary Noble "Mary Noble, Backstage Wife"; "Road of Life"
10-15-1912 - "Zeb" Tennis - Missouri - d. 8-10-1972
fiddle: "Plantation Boys"
10-15-1915 - Nellie Lutcher - Lake Charles, LA - d. 6-8-2007
jazz singer: "Jubilee"; "Spotlight Revue"; "Command Performance"
10-15-1917 - Jan Miner - Boston, MA - d. 2-15-2004
actor: Ann Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"; "Lora Lawton "Lora
Lawton"
10-15-1917 - Merrill Ash - d. 11-9-1999
newscaster: KOMO Seattle, Washington
10-15-1918 - Bob Sherry - Chattanooga, TN - d. 2-17-2003
announcer: "Archie Andrews"; "Author Meets the Critics"
10-15-1918 - Bobby Gimby - Cabri, Saskatchewan, Canada - d. 6-20-1998
musician, songwriter: "Happy Gang"
10-15-1918 - Harold Gast - d. 12-28-2003
writer: "Front Page Farrell"; "Real Stories from Real Life"
10-15-1918 - Robert Lee - Elyria, OH - d. 7-8-1994
writer: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
10-15-1921 - Allan Drake - Massachusetts - d. 3-8-1986
actor: "The Ethel Merman Show"
10-15-1921 - Geri Fontane - New Milford, NJ - d. 9-13-1993
singer: (The Fontane Sisters) "Chesterfield Supper Club"
10-15-1921 - Robert Rockwell - Chicago, IL - d. 1-25-2003
actor: Philip Boynton "Our Miss Brooks"
10-15-1922 - Paul Kasander - Detroit, MI - d. 10-17-2002
actor: "Challenge of the Yukon"; "Lone Ranger"; "Green Hornet"
10-15-1926 - Jean Peters - Canton, OH - d. 10-13-2000
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-15-1929 - Art James - d. 3-28-2004
announcer: Armed Forces Radio

October 15th deaths

01-20-1920 - Derek Bond - Glascow, Scotland - d. 10-15-2006
actor: "A Christmas Carol"
03-08-1912 - David Friedkin - d. 10-15-1976
writer: "Bold Venture"; "Broadway Is My Beat"; "The Front Page"
03-23-1917 - Josef Locke - Londonderry, Northern Ireland - d. 10-15-1999
actor: "Variety Fanfare"
04-16-1927 - Edie Adams - Kingston, PA-d. 10-15-2008
singer, actor: "Stewart Foster Show"
05-07-1900 - Ralph Truman - London, England - d. 10-15-1977
actor: John H Watson "BBC Home Theatre"
05-20-1920 - Betty Driver - Leicester, England - d. 10-15-2011
actor: "A Date with Betty"
05-21-1923 - Rick Jason - NYC - d. 10-15-2000
actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"
06-09-1891 - Cole Porter - Peru, IN - d. 10-15-1964
composer: Theme for "My Friend Irma"
06-17-1916 - Terry Gilkyson - Mont Clare, PA - d. 10-15-1999
singer, songwriter: "Solitary Singer"; "America Sings"; "Here's to
Veterans"
07-06-1924 - Bobby Mauch - Peoria, IL - d. 10-15-2007
actor: "Coast-to-Coast on a Bus"; "Let's Pretend"; "Robinson Crusoe,
Jr."
07-09-1917 - Ted Steele - Hartford, CT - d. 10-15-1985
bandleader: "Ted Steele's Studio Club"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
09-12-1918 - Ethel Beard - d. 10-15-2003
actor: "Experimental Playhouse of the Air"
09-20-1937 - Tom Tresh - Detroit, MI - d. 10-15-2008
baseball player: "Tops In Sports"
09-25-1905 - Carl Hoff - Oxnard, CA - d. 10-15-1965
bandleader: "Al Pearce and His Gang"; "Your Hit Parade"
10-09-1916 - Jack Boyle - Illinois - d. 10-15-1965
actor: Andy Gump "The Gumps"
10-13-1918 - Cornel Wilde - NYC - d. 10-15-1989
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-16-1904 - Raymond Meurer - d. 10-15-1974
Part owner of WXYZ
11-11-1899 - Pat O'Brien - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-15-1983
actor: Dan Carson "Dan Carson"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
11-13-1922 - Jack Narz - Louisville, KY - d. 10-15-2008
announcer: "Meet Corliss Archer"; "Tenneessee Ernie Ford Show"
11-23-1911 - Edward Breuder - Hoboken, NJ - d. 10-15-1989
director of CBS radio network music division
12-18-1919 - Ralph Levy - Phildelphia, PA - d. 10-15-2001
director: "Burns and Allen"

Ron

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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:17:01 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-12 births/deaths

October 12th births

10-12-1885 - Vladimir Bakaleinikoff - Moscow, Russia - d. 11-5-1953
conductor: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; WLW Cincinnati, Ohio
10-12-1891 - Perle Mesta - Sturgis, MI - d. 3-16-1975
renowned party giver: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
10-12-1899 - Phil Kramer - d. 3-31-1972
actor: grouch "The Grouch Club"
10-12-1900 - Ted Collins - NYC - d. 5-27-1964
announcer, host: (longtime manager of Kate Smith) "Kate Smith Speaks"
10-12-1903 - Josephine Hutchinson - Seattle, WA - d. 6-4-1998
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
10-12-1905- Gilbert Martyn - Colorado - d. 1-24-1959
newscaster: "Kellogg's Home Edition"
10-12-1906 - Daniel Saidenberg - d. 5-18-1997
conductor: "Alec Templeton Time"
10-12-1907 - Bob Ancell - d. 12-5-1988
disk jockey: WTVN Columbus, Ohio
10-12-1909 - Jack Orrison - Colorado - d. 6-3-1986
actor: "X Minus One"; "Gangbusters"
10-12-1912 - Robert Mitchell - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-4-2009
organist: "Jump-Jump of Holiday House"; "Midnight Matinee"
10-12-1915 - Mike Moser - Spokane, WA - d. 4-23-1953
producer, director: "Space Patrol"
10-12-1917 - G. William Marshall - Chicago, IL - d. 8-8-1994
singer: "Fred Waring Orchestra"
10-12-1924 - Randy Stuart - Iola, KS - d. 7-20-1996
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-12-1927 - Peggy Taylor - Inglewood, CA - d. 2-9-2002
singer: "The Breakfast Club"; "The Stan Freeberg Show"
10-12-1929 - Cathy Cowan - Kansas City, MO
composer/singer: San Francisco, California
10-12-1930 - Cyril Tawney - d. 4-21-2005
folk singer: "Folkspin"; "Alan Lomax Show"
10-12-1931 - Sam Buffington - Massachusetts - d. 5-15-1960
actor: Luke Slaughter "Luke Slaughter of Tombstone"
10-12-1935 - Luciano Pavarotti - Modena, Italy - d. 9-6-2007
tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"
10-12-1935 - Tony Kubek - Milwaukee, WI
baseball announcer for the New York Yankees
10-12-1936 - Ron Sayles - Waukesha, WI
actor, sound effects: "Billie the Brownie"
10-12-1949 - Jennifer Compton - Wellington, New Zealand
writer: "A Lovely Afternoon for a Drive"

October 12th deaths

01-06-1880 - Tom Mix - Mix Run, PA - d. 10-12-1940
legend: "Tom Mix Ralston Straightshooters" based on his life
02-25-1896 - Victor Bay - Lodz, Poland - d. 10-12-1988
orchestra leader on the CBS network
03-07-1925 - Rene Gagnon - Manchester, NH - d. 10-12-1979
raiser of second flag on Iwo Jima:: "Interview programs"
03-17-1891 - Tim Healy - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-12-1947
commentator: "Calling All Stamp Collectors"; "Captain Tim Helay Spy
Stories"
04-08-1912 - Sonja Henie - Kristiania, Norway - d. 10-12-1969
skater, actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Bill Ster's Colgate Sports
Newsreel"; "Shell Show"
04-11-1893 - Dean Acheson - Middletown, CT - d. 10-12-1971
[removed] secretary of state: "Building the Peace"; "The United Nations Today"
04-18-1887 - Bill Hay - Dumfires, Scotland - d. 10-12-1978
announcer: "Amos 'n' Andy"
05-06-1913 - Carmen Cavallaro - NYC - d. 10-12-1989
bandleader: (The Poet of the Piano) "Schaeffer Revue"; "Tums Tune Time"
05-22-1910 - Johnny Olsen - Windom, MN - d. 10-12-1985
emcee, announcer: "Ladies Be Seated"; "Get Rich Quick"
06-21-1921 - Owen Weingott - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-12-2002
actor: Hercule Poirot "Hercule Peroit"; "Portia Faces Life"
07-03-1881 - Leon Errol - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-12-1951
actor, comedian: WENR Chicago
07-10-1919 - Ian Wallace - London, England - d. 10-12-2009
bass-baritone: "My Music"
07-14-1903 - Ken Murray - Nyack, NY - d. 10-12-1988
comedian: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Texaco Star Theatre"
08-13-1898 - Regis Toomey - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-12-1991
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
08-16-1868 - Bernarr Macfadden - Mill Springs, MO - d. 10-12-1955
calisthentics program on WOR in New York
10-04-1895 - Lea Penman - Red Cloud, MN - d. 10-12-1962
actor: Alice Aldrich "The Aldrich Family"
10-06-1914 - Randolph Carter - Lexington, NE - d. 10-12-1998
writer: "Florence Nightingale"
11-06-1916 - Ray Conniff - Attleboro, MA - d. 10-12-2002
arranger: Armed Forces Radio during World War II

Ron

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