Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #366
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Date: 11/28/2005 8:02 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 366
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Chicago Tribune / LAT on the Jack Be  [ seandd@[removed] ]
  Couple Next Door                      [ StevenL751@[removed] ]
  re: The Mouse That Jack Built         [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
  Re: Question about "The Mouse that J  [ "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@ea ]
  Mouse That Jack Built                 [ Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@yahoo. ]
  razor blade and other exotic radios   [ ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed]; ]
  The Final Fate of the Brown Derby     [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
  razor blade and other exotic radios   [ BH <radiobill@[removed]; ]
  The Razor's Edge - but not really     [ Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:22:01 -0500
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Chicago Tribune / LAT on the Jack Benny Stamp

Laura Leff's campaign to get Jack Benny on the 39 cent stamp continues to garner major media coverage - a story from the Chicago Tribune also found in the LA Times follows.

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:22:21 -0500
From: StevenL751@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Couple Next Door

I've been listening to the Peg Lynch series "The  Couple Next Door" and in
December 1959 the long-running character of "Aunt  Effie" suddenly elopes and
moves away to New Mexico.  All this happens  off-mike, we never get a farewell
to the character.  I'm wondering what in  real life happened to actress
Margaret Hamilton for Peg Lynch to need to,  without warning or goodbyes,
write her
character out of the show.  Does  anyone know?

Steve Lewis

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:48:23 -0500
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  re: The Mouse That Jack Built

David Van Nostrand asked when "The Mouse That Jack Built" will be
available on DVD. The good news is: it already is! It's on the Looney
Tunes Golden Collection, Volume Three, which was released in October.
(Haven't bought this one yet, but it's at the top of my Xmas wish list.
The first two volumes are fantastic!)

Kermyt

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:48:50 -0500
From: "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Question about "The Mouse that Jack
 Built" DVD

In response to David Van Nostrand's query about the availability of this
cartoon on DVD -- it's out now.  It's on disc two of the 4-DVD set "Looney
Tunes Golden Collection" Volume 3.  Your best bet, price-wise, would be to
get it at a major discount retailer - Wal-Mart, Target, or Costco (if you're
a member).  Incidentally, there are three other Benny-related titles on this
set: "The Woods are Full of Cuckoos" (1937) and "Goofy Groceries" (1941),
both featuring a character named "Jack Bunny" - and "Daffy Duck and the
Dinosaur" (1939), with a character named Casper Caveman, who sounds
suspicously like Mr. Benny.  All three of these cartoons feature Jack
Lescoulie doing his (quite convincing) Benny imitation - but there's nothing
like the genuine article, which is probably why "The Mouse that Jack Built"
(1959) is the last cartoon on the disc.

And (unrelated to Jack and company), the set also includes "Rocket Squad"
(1956) - a "Dragnet" parody featuring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig as Joe and
Frank.  This title must hold the distinction of being the only cartoon to
feature two beloved characters engaging in non-stop cigarette smoking.

Cartoons are for kids???  Hah!

Michael

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:28:40 -0500
From: Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Mouse That Jack Built

The Mouse That Jack Built is now available on the Looney Tunes Golden
Collection 3, along with a bunch of other Hollywood parody cartoons.  All of
the Golden Collections are exceptional sets, and the most essential parts of
my DVD collection.

  Rodney Bowcock

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:38:13 -0500
From: ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  razor blade and other exotic radios

I don't think I've ever seen any kind of analysis on the
razor-blade/graphite junction, though I can't imagine that it was ignored
in the past.

I recall reading that the edge allowed access to a single crystal of iron.
                               XB
                                IC|XC

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:39:13 -0500
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Final Fate of the Brown Derby

The Los Angeles Times covers the end of The Brown Derby - a part of Jack 
Benny lore as strong as Palm Springs and the rains that moved Heddy Lamar's 
house next door to Dennis' in an article today.

Jack is mentioned.

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:40:19 -0500
From: BH <radiobill@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  razor blade and other exotic radios

I'm guessing that the razor blade's coating was either a nitride (produced
by quenching the hot steel in a cyanide bath)  or iron phosphide, which we
obtain by applying phosphoric acid.

Letting the razoblade collect a bit of rust worked well.

 Every radio needs a diode of some sort to unravel the music from the
carrier wave, and just about any pair of oxidized metals will produce a
semiconductor junction and thus make a diode.

Which is why people reported being able to hear a local radio station on
their cook stove, down spouts, teeth, ect. When two dissimilar metals
lightly touch they can often form a diode junction. If the transmitter
signal is strong enough, like a local station, you don't even need a
tuned circuit to tune it [removed]

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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:57:37 -0500
From: Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Razor's Edge - but not really

In the late1950s my "Uncle George" used to repair ours and neighbors'
television sets using some "do-it-yourself" manuals. They illustrated
common picture and/or sound problems, and had printed charts showing what
vacuum tubes or other parts needed to be replaced or repaired in order to
fix the TV's problem.
Use of these books saved us a lot of money, since, in many cases, we could
bypass the local radio/TV repair shop's diagnostic charges by going down to
the local drugstore and plugging in the repair manual's suggested "problem
tubes" on their "automatic test" machine. For any tubes that rated bad or
weak, we could buy replacements from the handy rack next to the testing
machine.
I think this system worked because by that time most televisions were being
built more or less to a common platform, as far as vacuum tube technology
was concerned. (Later, as transistors, etc. were introduced, things got
more complicated.)
My question:
In the later OTR days, were there similar "generic" do-it-yourself repair
manuals for most radios, or did owners have to depend on local repair shops
to fix their sets?

Just [removed]

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