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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2018 : Issue 14
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  [removed] Kaltenborn comments              [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
  Radio in the Cold War                 [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 11-17 Feb  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  This I [removed] real one, I mea  [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]
  Program Request                       [ dsanders <dsandersdirect@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 18:53:14 -0500
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  [removed] Kaltenborn comments

"Ronald W. Vickery, PE" <rvickery@[removed]; writes:

I was wondering if this is quoted from an actual broadcast, or did the
script writers just made it up?

Most likely not. I collect a lot of news material and also read 
Kaltenborn's autobiography "Fifty Fabulous Years" and based upon both, I 
have never seen this be Kaltenborn's view. He had differences with some 
of Roosevelt's cabinet and also liked Roosevelt and much of New Deal, I 
know of no such broadcast. He was hired by the Columbia Broadcasting 
System around 1931 and began reporting and commenting on the Washington 
scene and world politics at that time on radio (though he appeared on 
radio often as an occasional commentator not an employee of CBS prior to 
his employment with them).

I would suggest if you want to try to nail down for sure, contact the 
Wisconsin Historical Society where his papers are located including most 
of his radio scripts as a free agent, with CBS and NBC. They might be 
able to track down if such a script exists.

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Jim Widner

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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 18:55:46 -0500
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Radio in the Cold War
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 Hi. This documentary is coming up on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday 11th February.
Might be of interest ... ...

Radio Controlled, Sunday Feature - BBC Radio 3
 Robert Worby on how post-war West German radio and modern music won the
cultural cold war.

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Cheers ! Graeme

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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 18:55:54 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 11-17 February

2/11

1940   NBC presented The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street for
the first time. The famous Blue network series included several
distinguished alumni among them, Dinah Shore and Zero Mostel. The
chairman, or host, of The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street
was Milton Cross. He would say things like, "A Bostonian looks like he's
smelling something. A New Yorker looks like he's found it." The show
combined satire, blues and jazz and was built around what were called
the three Bs of music: Barrelhouse, Boogie Woogie and Blues.

2/12

1924   Calvin Coolidge, known by many as the 'Silent Cal', made the
first presidential political speech on radio. The speech originated from
New York City and was broadcast on five radio stations. Some five
million people tuned in to hear the President speak.

1924   The Eveready Hour became radio's first sponsored network program.
The National Carbon Company took the honor of being the first sponsor of
a network show.

1940   Mutual presented the first broadcast of Superman. The identity of
the man from planet Krypton was actually that of Bud Collyer.

1956- Wild Bill Hickok (and Jingles) rode off into the sunset on Mutual
for the last time, having been on radio since 27 May 1951.

2/13

1939   Virginia Payne, already popular as the voice of Ma Perkins, took
on a new character in NBC's soap opera, The Carters of Elm Street.
Virginia played the part of Mrs. Carter.

1943   Frank Sinatra made his debut as vocalist on radio's Your Hit
Parade this night. Frankie had left the Tommy Dorsey Band just four
months prior to beginning the radio program. He was described as,
"...the biggest name in the business."

2/15

1932   George Burns and Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on The Guy
Lombardo Show on CBS.

1943   My True Story was heard for the first time on ABC.  The program
continued for 17 years and was presented in cooperation with True Story
magazine.

Joe

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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 18:59:44 -0500
From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  This I [removed] real one, I mean

Folks;

   Next week on SummersTime (can be heard on Radio Once More at
[removed] ) I'm going to run an episode of the early-1950's
series This I Believe, hosted by Edward R. Murrow and aired on the CBS
network. I have been looking for episodes as originally broadcast from the
series and have found relatively few. I wanted to ask again if folks here
have additional episodes to add. What I have found thus far:

Intro - Edward R. Murrow

Walter Lanier "Red" Barber
Pearl S. Buck
Eddie Cantor
William O. Douglas
Martha Graham
Oscar Hammerstein, II
Herbert Hoover
Aldous Huxley
Dr. Charles Johnson
Sir Muhammad Kahn
Helen Keller
Alfred Landon
Thomas Mann
James Michener
Jackie Robinson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Harry Truman

   I am aware of the contemporary commercial recreation of this program;
while they ran some of the 1950's-era programs on The Bob Edwards Show and
have some on their website, those episodes were stripped of their announcer
openings and most stripped of Murrow's intros as well. I am more interested
in episodes that are as complete as possible as originally aired, the way
_we_ collect shows.

   I will place those I have into the shared OTR Digest's pCloud folder so
they may be accessed (along with all the other stuff in there). Any provided
by any of you will be included as well so everyone can listen. (And if you
don't currently have access to the shared pCloud folder, drop me a line for
[removed]'s completely free, and there's a bunch of audio and video
files available in there.)

         Charlie

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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 19:03:27 -0500
From: dsanders <dsandersdirect@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Program Request

I am looking for a copy of the CBS radio Frank Sinatra Show from February 1944
 featuring [removed] Fields as guest.
 Do you have this available or know of a collection which has it?

 Regards,
 Denis Sanders

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