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Volume 2011 : Issue 34
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Today's Topics:
2-24 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1904 00:24:24 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 2-24 births/deaths
February 23rd births
02-24-1876 - Victor Moore - Hammonton, NJ - d. 7-23-1962
comedian: (The Lothario of the Lumbago Set) "Jimmy Durante Show"
02-24-1885 - Bert Lytell - NYC - d. 9-28-1954
actor: Jimmy Valentine "Alias Jimmy Valentine"; Jeb Stuart "Roses and
Drums"
02-24-1885 - Chester Nimitz - Fredericksburg, TX - d. 2-20-1966
admiral of the navy: "Navy Day Program"; "We the People"; "This is the
Navy"
02-24-1889 - Boyd Bunch - Chamois, MO - d. 2-8-1969
pianist, arranger: "Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians"
02-24-1890 - Marjorie Main - Acton, IN - d. 4-10-1975
actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
02-24-1891 - Joe Laurie, Jr. - Moscow, Russia - d. 4-29-1954
comedian: "Can You Top This"
02-24-1895 - May Singhi Breen - NYC - d. 12-19-1970
singer: (The Ukulele Lady) "Sweethearts of the Air"
02-24-1904 - Tim Graham - Kansas - d. 1-14-1979
actor: "Plays for Americans"
02-24-1914 - Zachary Scott - Austin, TX - d. 10-3-1965
actor: "Suspense"; "Encore Theatre"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
02-24-1916 - Willie Gilbert - Cleveland, OH - d. 12-2-1980
writer: "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
02-24-1917 - Peggy Wall - Spokane, WA
actor: Blue Howard "Betty and Bob"; Lois Colton "Romance of Helen Trent"
02-24-1919 - Betty Marsden - Liverpool, England - d. 7-19-1998
actor: Daphne Whitehigh, Buttercup Gruntfuttock, et al "Round the Horne"
02-24-1921 - Abe Vigoda - NYC
actor: "You Are There"
02-24-1922 - Steven Hill - Seattle, WA
actor: "Treasury Salute"; "Up For Parole"
02-24-1923 - David Soyer - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-25-2010
cellist: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Guauner Quartet"
02-24-1923 - Fred Steiner - NYC
music: "On Stage"; "This Is Yor FBI"
02-24-1924 - Talat Mahmood - Lucknow, India - d. 5-9-1998
singer: "The Frank Sinatra of India) "All India Radio"
02-24-1931 - Barry Oakley - Melbourne, Australia
writer: "Eugene Flockhart's Desk"; "The Great God Mogadon"
02-24-1943 - George Harrison - Liverpool, England - d. 11-29-2001
singer: (The Beatles) "Here We Go Again"
02-24-1943 - Richard Carleton - Bowral, Australia - d. 5-7-2006
correspondent for 2GB radio
02-24-1946 - Barry Bostwick - San Mateo, CA
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
February 23rd deaths
01-10-1927 - Johnnie Ray - The Dalles, OR - d. 2-24-1990
singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
01-24-1904 - Franklyn Baur - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-24-1950
tenor: "Palmolive Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"
02-02-1936 - Arthur Lyman - Kauai, HI - d. 2-24-2002
vibes: Won talent contest on Honolulu radio, station KGMB
02-08-1913 - Taylor Grant - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-24-1998
newscaster: "Headline Edition"
02-25-1904 - Marion Claire - Chicago, IL - d. 2-24-1988
singer: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
02-29-1916 - Dinah Shore - Winchester, TN - d. 2-24-1994
singer: "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Dinah Shore Show"
03-05-1921 - Milt Kamen - Hurleyville, NY - d. 2-24-1977
satirist: "Voices of Vista"; "Here's to Veterans"
03-16-1897 - Conrad Nagel - Keokuk, IA - d. 2-24-1970
actor, emcee: "Silver Theatre"; "Passing Parade"
03-16-1906 - Henny Youngman - London, England - d. 2-24-1998
comedian: (Take my wife, please) "Kate Smith Hour"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
03-25-1906 - Jean Sablon - Nogent-sur-Marne, France - d. 2-24-1994
baritone/composer: (French Troubadour) "Shell Chateau"; Magic Key of
RCA"
03-25-1916 - Jean Rogers - Belmont, MA - d. 2-24-1991
actor: Elaine Dascomb "Those We Love"
04-10-1922 - Marian Richman - California - d. 2-24-1956
actor: "Tell It Again"
04-26-1906 - [removed] "Albert" Alexander - Winthrop, MA - d. 2-24-1967
moderator: "Goodwill Court/Court of Human Relations"
05-02-1925 - Svatopluk Havelka - Vrbice, Czechoslovakia - d. 2-24-2009
composer: member music department Czechoslovakia in Ostrava
05-19-1906 - Bruce Bennett - Tacoma, WA - d. 2-24-2007
actor: "Proudly We Hail"
05-20-1920 - George Gobel - Chicago, IL - d. 2-24-1991
comedian, actor, singer: (Lonesome George) Jimmy "Tom Mix"
05-29-1918 - Herb Shriner - Toledo, OH - d. 2-24-1970
comedian: "Camel Comedy Caravan"; "Herb Shriner Time"
06-01-1915 - John Randolph - NYC - d. 2-24-2004
actor: "New World A' Coming"; "A Date with Judy"
06-04-1924 - Dennis Weaver - Joplin, MO - d. 2-24-2006
actor: Look Magazine Commercial "Have Gun, Will Travel"
06-06-1918 - Martin Esslin - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 2-24-2002
Head of radio drama for the BBC
06-14-1894 - George Hall - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-24-1959
orchestra leader: CBS network
07-01-1908 - Alvino Rey - Oakland, CA - d. 2-24-2004
bandleader: "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"
07-21-1924 - Don Knotts - Morgantown, WV - d. 2-24-2006
actor: Windy Wales "Bobby Benson's Adventures"
08-01-1910 - Walter Scharf - NYC - d. 2-24-2003
music director: "Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show"
08-08-1921 - Webb Pierce - West Monroe, LA - d. 2-24-1991
singer: ""Grand Ole Opry"; Louisiana Hayride"
08-17-1896 - Alma Lawton - Woolwich, England - d. 2-24-1982
actor: "I Love Adventure"; "NBC University Theatre"
09-02-1898 - Arthur Young - Bristol, Gloucestershire, England - d.
2-24-1959
actor: Junior Fitz "Ma Perkins"; Son "The Baxters"
09-02-1902 - Henry J. Taylor - Chicago, IL - d. 2-24-1984
commentator: 'Your Land and Mine"; "News Commentary"
09-09-1922 - Imogene Lynn - Trenton, MO - d. 2-24-2003
singer: "Spotlight Bands"
09-29-1910 - Virginia Bruce - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-24-1982
actor: Susan Read "Rexall Summer Theatre"
10-04-1932 - Edward Judd - Shanghai, China - d. 2-24-2009
actor: "Drop Me Here, Darling"; "Philadelphia Moonshine"
10-25-1901 - Daniel Landt - Scranton, PA - d. 2-24-1961
singer: Landt Trio, "Doc Pearson's Drug Store"; "Bob Hawk Show"
11-07-1893 - Margaret Leech - Newburgh, NY - d. 2-24-1974
author: "Information Please"
12-03-1927 - Isabelle Lucas - Toronto, Canada - d. 2-24-1997
guest panelist: "Quote-Unquote"
12-24-1906 - Franz Waxman - Konigshutte, Germany - d. 2-24-1967
composer-conductor: "Good News of 1939"
Ron
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