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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 190
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  12-11 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:33:56 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-11 births/deaths

December 11th births

12-11-1882 - Fiorello La Guardia - NYC - d. 9-20-1947
NYC mayor: "Douglas Corrigan Parade"; "This Is New York"; "Reads the
Funnies"
12-11-1883 - Victor McLaglen - Tunbridge Wells, England - d. 11-7-1959
actor: Captain Flagg "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt"; Mountie Eric
Lewis "Red Trails"
12-11-1894 - Eddie Dowling - Woonsocket, RI - d. 2-18-1976
host: "We, the People"; "Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
12-11-1898 - Shoji Taro - Akita, Japan - d. 10-4-1972
enka singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"
12-11-1905 - Pare Lorentz - Clarksburg, WV - d. 3-4-1992
writer: "Columbia Workshop"
12-11-1908 - Sally Eilers - NYC - d. 1-5-1978
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
12-11-1910 - Samuel Kurtzman - d. 1-14-1998
writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
12-11-1911 - Beecher Pete Kirby - Sevierville, TN - d. 10-17-2002
dobro, guitar, banjo player: (Member Smokey Mountain Boys) "Grand Ole
Opry"
12-11-1911 - Sam Levenson - NYC - d. 8-27-1980
humorist: "Arthur Godfrey Show"; "City Club Forum"
12-11-1914 - Marie Windsor - Marysville, UT - d. 12-10-2000
actor: "Escape"; "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-11-1915 - Dolly Good - Mt. Carmel, IL - d. 11-12-1967
singer: (Girls of the Golden West) "National Barn Dance"
12-11-1920 - Eddie Firestone, Jr. - San Francisco, CA - d. 3-1-2007
actor: Joey Brewster "That Brewster Boy"; William Herbert Murray "One
Man's Family"
12-11-1922 - Robert Arden - London, England - d. 3-25-2004
actor: "America Looks Abroad"
12-11-1923 - Betsy Blair - Cliffside, NJ - d. 3-13-2009
actor: "Favorite Story"; "Meet Me in St. Louis"
12-11-1924 - Felix "Doc" Blanchard - Bishopville, SC - d. 4-18-2009
football great: "Heisman Trophy Award"
12-11-1926 - Dick Tufeld - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-22-2012
announcer: "The Amazing Mr. Malone"; "Space Patrol"
12-11-1943 - Christine Lyons - Detroit, MI
free-lance radio reporter: "Update, Where Are They Now?"
12-11-1947 - Charles Palliser - Holyoke, MA
author: "The Journal of Simon Owen"

December 11th deaths

01-05-1938 - Lindsay Crosby - California - d. 12-11-1989
actor: "Bing Crosby Show"
01-15-1914 - Carlos Ramirez - Tocaim, Colombia - d. 12-11-1986
vocalist: "Grapevine Rancho"
01-29-1914 - Bonnie Prudden - NYC - d. 12-11-2011
fitness expert: "House Party"
01-31-1909 - Walter Coy - Great Falls, MT - d. 12-11-1974
actor: Michael Lanyard/Lone Wolf "Lone Wolf"
02-03-1919 - Dolly Dawn - Newark, NJ - d. 12-11-2002
bandleader: "Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol"
02-20-1906 - Richard Himber - Newark, NJ - d. 12-11-1966
bandleader: "Studebaker Champions"; "Your Hit Parade"
03-23-1874 - Fiddlin' John Carson - Cobb County, GA - d. 12-11-1949
fiddler: Made debut on station WSB Atlanta, Georgia
04-14-1914 - Arnold Perl - d. 12-11-1971
writer: "The Big Story"; "I Fly Anything"; "The Amazing Mr. Tutt"
04-25-1921 - Robert Q. Lewis - NYC - d. 12-11-1991
disc jockey, comedian, host: "Arthur Godrey Time"; "Robert Q. Lewis
Show"
05-04-1874 - Frank Conrad - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 12-11-1941
"the father of radio broadcasting" Started radio station KDKA in his
garage
05-15-1913 - James Baxter - Yucalpa, CA - d. 12-11-1964
writer of radio scripts
05-28-1898 - Andy Kirk - Newport, KY - d. 12-11-1992
bandleader: (Clouds of Joy) "Andy Kirk and His Orchestra"
05-28-1912 - Dave Barbour - Flushing, NY - d. 12-11-1965
orchestra leader, composer, actor: "Electric Hour"; "Chesterfield
Supper Club"
06-25-1911 - Reed Hadley - Petrolia, TX - d. 12-11-1974
actor: Red Ryder "Red Ryder"; Chad Remington "Frontier Town"
07-07-1911 - Lou Maury - Butte, MT - d. 12-11-1975
pianist: "What's the Name of That Song?"
07-16-1888 - Percy Kilbride - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-11-1964
actor,host: "Paul Whiteman Presents"; "Melody Round-Up"; "Stars in the
Air"
08-08-1900 - James Pierce - Freedom, IN - d. 12-11-1983
actor: Tarzan "Tarzan"
08-18-1937 - William Rushton - London, England - d. 12-11-1996
comediam: "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue"
09-03-1893 - Anthony Collins - Hastings, England - d. 12-11-1963
composer: "Ceiling Unlimited"
09-11-1909 - Anne Seymour - NYC - d. 12-11-1988
actor: "Mary Marlin "Story of Mary Marlin"; Francie Nolan "Tree Grows
in Brooklyn"
09-16-1908 - Neil Reagan - Tampico, IL - d. 12-11-1996
director, announcer: (Brother of Ron) "Dr. Christian"; "Straight Arrow"
09-19-1910 - Arthur Mullard - London, England - d. 12-11-1995
actor: Jack (Dad Porter) "Industrial Inaction"; "Brothers In Law"
10-02-1905 - Mary Breckinridge - NYC - d. 12-11-2002
correspondent: "CBS News of Europe"; "World News Today"
10-09-1915 - Lee Wiley - Fort Gibson, OK - d. 12-11-1975
singer: "Lee Wiley"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"; "It's Florida's
Treat"
10-19-1916 - David Lewis - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 12-11-2000
actor: "Wake Up America"
11-02-1909 - Fred Lowery - Palestine, TX - d. 12-11-1984
whistler: (The Blind Whistler) "New Fred Lowrey Show"; "Horace Heidt
Show"

Ron

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