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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 31
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: Dangerous Assignment              [ FabFicBks@[removed] ]
  OTR In the News                       [ seandd@[removed] ]
  2-4 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Re: 2/2 births                        [ Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 11:33:03 -0500
From: FabFicBks@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Dangerous Assignment

Reading over Joe McKay's list of notable  events in broadcast history posted
in the Sunday Digest, I came across his note  about Dangerous Assignment.  I
Hate to be picky, but Steve Mitchell was not  a soldier of fortune.  He was a
special agent attached to some sort of  quasi-legal government agency which
sent him on globe trotting assignments every  week, usually with a specific
goal
in mind.  The agency paid his salary and  all expenses, he was not a freelance
opportunist.
    I always wondered how somebody got a job like  that.  I mean, do you fill
out a job application, go thru an employment  agency, network your friends
for openings or what?  Hey Steve, the  government is looking for a snoopy
busybody who speaks four languages and has an  incredible load of dumb luck.
Why
don't you pop around and talk to the  head of operations there.  I don't
believe
the show ever covered Steve  Mitchell's background or experience on any of
the shows.
    I also noted that on both radio and TV a lot of the  assignments weren't
really that dangerous; they were more like mystery problems  that just needed
some of Mitchell's inate ability to stumble into the right  situation at
exactly the right time to solve them.
    This is a show I can only take in small  doses.  One a week would have
been about right in the old days.  With  tape and all, I can usually listen to
two or three programs before I have  to switch to something else.

---Bob Jennings

48)

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Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 11:49:45 -0500
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR In the News

A couple more news stories touching on OTR coming out of California.

A nostalgic article in the Contra Costa Times writes about radio as a support
system during the depression, mentioning many aspects such as the different
kinds of shows, premiums for children and so on.

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TV actor Jon Provost ("Lassie"), a former Friends of Old Time Radio
Convention guest, is written up in the Riverside Press Democrat, pushing his
biography "Timmy Is In the Well."  In the article, he mentions working with
Jack Benny.

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date=02/03/2008

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:19:53 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-4 births/deaths

February 4th births

02-04-1889 - Walter Catlett - San Francisco, Ca - d. 11-14-1960
actor: "This Is Your [removed]"; "Escape"; "Campbell Playhouse"
02-04-1898 - Art Balinger - California - d. 1-18-1980
announcer: "Here Comes McBride"; "Mr. and Mrs. North"
02-04-1901 - Tom McKnight - d. 4-22-1963
producer, director, writer: "Beulah Show"; "Gibson Family"
02-04-1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh - Detroit, MI - d. 8-26-1974
aviator: CBS awards program
02-04-1904 - MacKinlay Kantor - Webster City, IA - d. 10-11-1977
writer: "Lest We Forget"; "Author's Playhouse"
02-04-1905 - Eddie Foy, Jr. - New Rochelle, NY - d. 7-15-1983
vaudevillian: "Starlight Operetta"; "Mitch Miller Show"
02-04-1908 - Jack Fraser - Lawrence, MA - d. 1-1-2000
newscaster: "John Gordon Fraser and the News", "Monitor"
02-04-1908 - Manny Klein - NYC - d. 5-31-1994
trumpet: "The Ipana Troubadors"
02-04-1909 - Robert Coote - London, England - d. 11-26-1982
actor: "Campbell Playhouse"
02-04-1910 - Lansing Hatfield - Franklin, VA - d. 8-22-1954
singer: "Met Opera Auditions of the Air"
02-04-1912 - Bryon Nelson - Waxachaie, TX - d. 9-26-2006
golfer: "The Bill Stern Sports Newsreel"
02-04-1912 - Erich Leinsdorf - Vienna, Austria - d. 9-11-1993
conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Pioneers of Music"; "Musicians
Off Stage"
02-04-1915 - Ray Evans - Salamanca, NY - d. 2-15-2007
songwriter: "Hollywood Calling-George Fisher Interviews the Stars"
02-04-1918 - Ida Lupino - London, England - d. 8-3-1995
panelist, actor: "Hollywood Byline"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
02-04-1918 - Janet Waldo - Grandview, WA
actor: Corliss Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"; Irene Franklin "One
Man's Family"
02-04-1921 - Betty Friedan - Peoria, IL - d. 2-4-2006
feminist, author: "Second Sunday"
02-04-1934 - Bruce Malmuth - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-29-2005
director: New York Yankees baseball games
02-04-1935 - Delaney "Ben" Casey - Asheville, NC - d. 11-20-2007
talk show host: "Community Focus"

February 4th deaths

01-22-1924 - J. J. Johnson - d. 2-4-2001
jazz trombonist: "Arthur Godfrey Show"; "One Night Stand"
02-04-1921 - Betty Friedan - Peoria, IL - d. 2-4-2006
feminist, author: "Second Sunday"
03-04-1934 - Barbara McNair - Racine, WI - d. 2-4-2007
singer/actor: "America Swings"
03-10-1920 - Kenneth C. Burns (Jethro) - Georgia - d. 2-4-1989
comedic singer: (Homer and Jethro) "Town and Country Time"
03-18-1894 - Stuart Buchanan - d. 2-4-1974
actor, producer, director: "Goofy "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
04-07-1900 - Maria "Gamby" Gambarelli - La Spezia, Italy - d. 2-4-1990
ballerina, singer: "Roxy's Gang"; "Dance with Gamby"
04-13-1919 - Phil Tonken - Hartford, CT - d. 2-4-2000
announcer/newscaster: "Your Supper"; "Radio Newsreel"
05-16-1919 - Liberace - West Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-4-1987
pianist, singer: "Stars for Defense"
06-02-1910 - Ward Bryon - NYC - d. 2-4-1996
announcer: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
07-31-1904 - Brett Halliday - Chicago, IL - d. 2-4-1977
creator of Michael Shayne; host on "Murder by Experts"
08-06-1915 - Jim Ameche - Kenosha, WI - d. 2-4-1983
actor: Jack Armstrong "Jack Armstrong"; Jim West "Silver Eagle"
09-19-1904 - Dr. Bergen Evans - Franklin, OH - d. 2-4-1978
host: "Down You Go"; "Of Many Things"
10-19-1921 - George Nader - Pasadena, CA - d. 2-4-2002
actor: "Family Theatre"
11-08-1921 - Jerome Hines - Hollywood, CA - d. 2-4-2003
singer: "Standard Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"
12-18-1917 - Ossie Davis - Cogdell, GA - d. 2-4-2005
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Story Hour"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:20:33 -0500
From: Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: 2/2  births

02-02-1909 - Purv Pullen - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-18-1992
bird and animal imitator: Horatio G. Birdbath "The Spike Jones Show"

Pullen's alter ego--coined by Spike Jones--was actually Dr. Horatio
Q. Birdbath. As he recalled, Jones said the Q stood for quinine,
"because you're hard to take." I don't know if he legally changed his
name, but he went by Birdbath the rest of his life. He played Trailer
Tim on "National Barn Dance" before his stint with the City Slickers.
Doc was quite a character in real life, as anyone who knew him can
attest.

Jordan Young

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