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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2009 : Issue 170
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Superman's Identity                   [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  9-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  For THAT money, at THAT [removed]       [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Re: Bud Collyer as Superman           [ Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed] ]
  Need photos                           [ LBiel <[removed]@[removed]; ]
  Those were the Days and Nostalgia Di  [ Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed] ]
  "Chicken Heart" script                [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  9-5 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Script Re-Use and Multi-Part YTJD Ma  [ Stewart Wright <otrwash@[removed]; ]
  Re: Mickey Rooney                     [ Penny Yingling <bandpy@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 6-12 Sept  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:23:39 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Superman's Identity

Craig W. correctly takes J. Mackey to task for posting that
Superman's identity as Bud Collyer wasn't known until 4 years after
its network run began and Mackey cites a Time Magazine article of
1946 with the first disclosure. Craig sez no, while Collyer was not
in the cast credits, a lotta people knew he was voicing Superman.

It turns out that Craig is right, and Mackey merely has the right
magazine, but the wrong issue.

Turning to a new book which has already become THE authority on the
Man of Steel, Michael Hayde's "Flights of Fantasy: The Unauthorized
But True Story of Radio & TV's Adventures of Superman" (Bear Manor
Media) we read that the 9-14-42 issue of Time Magazine identified
Collyer as Superman. According to that article, Collyer was a bona-
fide celebrity, so much so that when he recently took over as
superintendent of an interdenominational Sunday school in Manhasset,
NY, attendance jumped from 700 to 1,250.

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
<[removed]>

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:23:47 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-4 births/deaths

September 4th births

09-04-1880 - Claude Cooper - London, England - d. 7-20-1932
actor: Pegleg Gaddis "Moonshine and Honeysuckle"
09-04-1891 - Sam Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-5-1977
bandleader: "Ipana Troubadors"; "Benrus Ticksters"
09-04-1895 - Jack Miller - Dorchester, MA - d. 3-18-1985
conductor: "Kate Smith and Her Swanee Music"; "Aldrich Family"
09-04-1898 - Agnes Ayres - Carbondale, IL - d. 12-25-1940
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-04-1898 - Charlie Cantor - Worcester, MA - d. 9-11-1966
actor: Clifton Finnegan "Duffy's Tavern"; Levy Soloman "Abie's Irish
Rose"
09-04-1898 - Harry Salter - Bucharest, Romania - d. 3-5-1984
conductor: "It Pays to Be Ignorant"; "Lanny Ross Show"; "Stop the Music"
09-04-1903 - Bennie Bonacio - Mineo, Italy - d. 1-10-1974
saxophonist: Paul Whiteman, Vincent Lopez orchestras
09-04-1903 - Leonard Lee - d. 8-24-1964
writer: "Sherlock Holmes"
09-04-1903 - Phillip Arkansas - d. 11-27-1969
saxophonisst: WWNC Ashville, North Carolina
09-04-1905 - Meade Lux Lewis - Chicago, IL - d. 6-7-1964
jazz pianist: "Camel Caravan"; "Mercury Theatre"; "Jubilee"
09-04-1908 - Ed Dmytryk - Grand Forks, Canada - d. 7-1-1999
film director: "George Fisher Interviews the Stars"
09-04-1913 - Henry Russell - Michigan - d. 4-14-1968
conductor: "NBC University Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
09-04-1913 - Jan Savitt - Petrograd, Russia - d. 10-4-1948
bandleader: "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Rhapsody in Rhythm"
09-04-1914 - Leonard Sterling - d. 9-18-1992
announcer: "The Brighter Day"; "We Are Always Young"
09-04-1918 - Paul Harvey - Tulsa, OK - d. 2-28-2009
commentator: "Paul Harvey News"; "Speak Your Mind"
09-04-1923 - Graham Archer - d. 1-3-2001
disk jockey: "Wax Museum"; "The States of the Union"
09-04-1923 - Virginia Maxey - Indianapolis, IN
singer: (Modernaires) "Club Fifteen"
09-04-1925 - Howard Morris - NYC - d. 5-21-2005
comedian: "Those Good Old Days"
09-04-1928 - Dick York - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 2-20-1992
actor: Billy Fairfield "Jack Armstrong/Armstrong of the SBI"
09-04-1931 - Glyn Frewer - Oxford, England
writer: "The Hitchhikers"
09-04-1931 - Mitzi Gaynor - Chicago, IL
singer, actor: "Juke Box Jury"
09-04-1934 - Ron Batozech - d. 7-22-1997
disk jockey: WJOL Joliet, Illinois
09-04-1936 - Wayne Cody - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 6-7-2002
Seattle sportscaster
09-04-1937 - Red Shipley - Johnson City, TN - d. 10-6-2007
host: "Stained Glass Bluegrass"; "Orange & Blue Review"

September 4th deaths

04-25-1918 - Astrid Varnay - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 9-4-2006
operatic soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"; "Operatic Excerpts"
06-02-1915 - Walter Tetley - NYC - d. 9-4-1975
actor: Julius Abbruzio "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"; LeRoy Forrester
"Great Gildersleeve"
06-09-1908 - Joe Biviano - d. 9-4-1992
accordionist: NBC Blue Network
06-15-1843 - Edvard Grieg - Bergen Norway - d. 9-4-1907
composer: Some of his compositions used as themes
07-16-1930 - Joey Giardello - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-4-2008
middleweight boxer; "Tops In Sports"; "Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts"
07-27-1920 - Michael Evans - Sittingbourne, England - d. 9-4-2007
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
08-09-1911 - Robert K. McCormick - Danville, KY - d. 9-4-1984
newscaster: "Robert K. McCormick and the News"
08-19-1903 - Fran Striker - Buffalo, NY - d. 9-4-1962
creator, writer: "The Lone Ranger"; "Sgt. Preston of the Yukon"; "The
Green Hornet"
09-12-1897 - Richard Maxwell - Mansfield, OH - d. 9-4-1954
singer, host: "A Friend in Deed"; "Cheer and Comfort"
09-12-1907 - Louis MacNeice - Belfast, Ireland - d. 9-4-1963
author: "Christopher Columbus"
09-15-1915 - John Conte - Palmer, MA - d. 9-4-2006
emcee: "Maxwell House Coffee Time"; "John Conte Show"
10-11-1932 - Dottie West - McMinnville, TN - d. 9-4-1991
country singer: "Country Music Time"
10-26-1913 - Charlie Barnet - NYC - d. 9-4-1991
bandleader: "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Saturday Night Swing Session"
11-16-1920 - Colin Thiele - Eudunda, Australia - d. 9-4-2006
writer: "Burke and Wills"
12-12-1917 - Richard Martin - Spokane, WA - d. 9-4-1994
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-20-1898 - Irene Dunne - Louisville, KY - d. 9-4-1990
actor: Susan Armstrong "Bright Star"; "Family Theatre"; "Hallmark Hall
of Fame"

Ron

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:24:00 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  For THAT money, at THAT [removed]

From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
Subject:   Zenith Stratosphere<

...it better have sounded BETTER than if you were actually there in the
studios!!!

-Craig

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:24:14 -0400
From: Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Bud Collyer as Superman

Concerning the question of whether the identity of Bud Collyer as the
portrayer of Superman was kept a secret until 1946, here's a random sampling
of newspaper publicity clips circa 1942-1944:

1942 (March 31): "...Clayton Collyer, familiar in the title role of
'Superman' in the radio serialization of that comic [removed]"

1942 (October 4): "What is the flesh and blood 'Superman' of the airways
like? Who is Clayton Collyer, whose voice holds millions of young (and some
older) ears glued to their radio receivers each day? Clayton Collyer, who
portrays the 'Man of Iron,' is 34 years old, married and the father of three
children. Though without the bulging muscles and square jaw of the mythical
hero, 'Bud,' as the successful radio actor is called, is no disappointment to
Supermaniacs who have seen him. He stands six feet tall and weighs 165
pounds. Collyer lives in a suburb of New York City where he is superintendent
of an interdenominational Sunday school."

1942 (November 3): Newspaper photo of Collyer standing at a Mutual microphone
in front of a Superman poster. Caption: "Clayton Collyer, observed here by
'Superman,' plays the real-life counterpart of the hero of every youngster."

1943 (February 2): "...Superman, played by Bud Collyer, will outwit the Jap
spies as he has in the [removed]"

1943 (April 19): "Superman returns in a new series of adventures, with
Clayton Collyer and Joan Alexander."

1943 (October 11): "...Clayton Collyer, who is Superman on the air. In real
life he's sup't of a Sunday [removed]"

1943 (October 14): "The role of Superman is played by Clayton (Bud) Collyer.
He bridges the gap successfully between the mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent
to the daring 'Superman'..."

1944 (September 14): "Thriving on the excitement of the program, now devoted
to 'defeating the axis' are the four principals, Clayton Collyer, Joan
Alexander, Julian Noa and Jackie [removed] Both Collyer, who plays Superman,
and theatricalite Julia Noa who plays newspaperman Perry White have been in
the series since it [removed]"

[removed] of evidence that Collyer was being publicly identified with the
role as early as 1942.

Mike Ogden

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:24:23 -0400
From: LBiel <[removed]@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Need photos

Last year I came across several photos in an old book and I am not sure
of which book.  It had thought it might
be in Norman Brokenshire's book "This Is NB", but I checked that book it
is not that one.  It might be in Ted Husing's "10 Years Before the
Mike."  or in Graham McNamee's book in the 30s.  The book was by the
announcer who did the broadcast in question.  The photos are of a group
of people seated in a hotel ballroom during a broadcast of a reunion of
pilots who have flown across the Atlantic.  Charles Lindbergh and Amelia
Earhart are prominent in the pictures.  A different picture from this
event has occasionally been incorrectly touted by NBC as being their
first broadcast in November 1926, but any dolt should realize that
Lindbergh and Earhart were nobodies at that date and would not have even
been allowed in the Waldorf Astoria, let alone be given front row seats
at the NBC Gala!!  (She was just a shop clerk and he was just another
airmail pilot back then.)  The microphone is also of a type not used
until late 1929 at the earliest.

I need scans of the pictures from the book and the pages where the
banquet broadcast is discussed.  If it is not the
Husing or McNamee book, perhaps someone could tell me what book it is
in.  I do have the photo with NBC's incorrect identification of it.

Thanks.

Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:24:34 -0400
From: Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Those were the Days and Nostalgia Digest

Just wanted to remind everyone that this Saturday, September 5, "Those Were
The Days" welcome big band historian and all-around nice guy Karl Pearons
back to the microphone for "More Big Bands From Chicago." Hear Ben Bernie
(and the lads) from the Hotel Sherman! Duke Ellington at the Blue Note! Orrin
Tucker from the Edgewater Beach Hotel! You'll thrill to some great sounds and
mourn the loss of some great nightspots. It starts this Saturday at 1 pm CST
on WDCB-FM ([removed]) and will be archived for one week at
[removed].

BTW, thanks to those of you who have inquired but the Winter 2009 issue of
Nostalgia Digest--the one with the Les Paul cover--is now sold out. However,
I just came into possession of a few older back issues, including our 2006
interview with Stan Freberg. We'll be updating the Website soon but
interested parties are welcome to contact me at this address.

Steve

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:25:10 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "Chicken Heart" script

At a future meeting, the Metro Washington OTR Club would like to do a
re-creation of Arch Oboler's "Chicken Heart" program from the Lights
Out series. So far, our coordinator, Maury Cagle, has been unable to
locate a copy of script. (Only a small portion of it exists in audio
form, and even that is believed to be re-created.)

I believe the entire show has been done before, perhaps at the Newark
FOTR convention? Any Digesters aware of the existence of this script
and a possible source, please advise.

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
<[removed]>

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:25:20 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-5 births/deaths

September 5th births

09-05-1879 - Harold Sanford - Florence, MA - d. 1-19-1945
conductor: "Philco Hour"; "Exploring America with Carveth Wells"
09-05-1879 - Reginald C. Knorr - Mottville, MI - d. 6-13-1959
actor: "Myrt and Marge"
09-05-1887 - Vera Barstow - d. 11-19-1962
violinists: KHJ Los Angeles, California
09-05-1892 - Joseph Szigeti - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 2-19-1973
violinist: "Camel Caravan"; "Elgin Christmas Party"; "Concert Hall"
09-05-1893 - George Sokolsky - Utica, NY - d. 12-12-1962
news commentator: 15-minute weekly series on ABC
09-05-1895 - Craig Earl - Great Barrington, MA - d. 8-13-1985
quizmaster: "Professor Quiz"
09-05-1895 - William Hillman - NYC - d. 5-30-1962
newscaster: Teamed with Raymond Clapper on NBC BLUE, ABC
09-05-1896 - Phil Baxter - Navarro County, TX - d. 11-21-1972
orchestra leader: Live remotes from El Torreon
09-05-1897 - Arthur Nielsen - Chicago, IL - d. 6-1-1980
Founder of the Nielsen Ratings
09-05-1897 - Doris Kenyon - Syracuse, NY - d. 9-1-1979
actor: Ann "Crossroads"
09-05-1897 - Morris Carnovsky - St. Louis, MO - d. 9-1-1992
actor: Adam Bassett "Prairie Folks"; Mr. Kriss "Into the Light"
09-05-1902 - Darryl Zanuck - Wahoo, NE - d. 12-22-1979
film director: "Jack Benny Program"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Triburte to
Irving Berlin"
09-05-1907 - Jimmy Wallington - Rochester, NY - d. 12-22-1972
announcer: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Texaco Town/Star Theatre"; "Alan
Young Show"
09-05-1907 - Sybil Chism Bock - Carrolton, IL - d. 5-28-1980
organist: "One Man's Family"; "Lum and Abner"
09-05-1908 - Elizabeth Day - St. Paul, MN
actor: Sally Jones "Five Star Jones"
09-05-1908 - Gloria Holden - London, England - d. 3-22-1991
actor: Janet Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"
09-05-1910 - Kenny Delmar - Boston, MA - d. 7-14-1984
actor: Beauregard Claghorn "Fred Allen Show"; Commissioner Weston "The
Shadow"
09-05-1912 - John Cage - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-12-1992
composer: "The Columbia Workshop"
09-05-1912 - Sally Payne - Chicago, IL - d. 5-8-1999
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-05-1914 - Gail Thompson Kubik - Coffeyville, KS - d. 7-20-1984
staff composer and music advisor for NBC: "Great Plays," Soldiers with
Wings"
09-05-1914 - Nancy Ordway - Fort Warden, WA - d. 4-19-2005
actor: Helen Holden "Helen Holden, Government Girl"
09-05-1916 - Frank Shuster - Toronto Canada - d. 1-13-2002
writer: (Wayne and Schuster) "The Army Show"; "The March of Time"
09-05-1916 - Frank Yerby - Augusta, GA - d. 11-29-1991
author: "Best Seller"
09-05-1918 - Max Harris - Bournemouth, England - d. 3-6-2004
composer: "Round the Horn"
09-05-1923 - Joan Wagner Beck - Clinton, IA - d. 12-10-1998
scriptwriter: "Voice of America"
09-05-1929 - Bob Newhart - Oak Park, IL
comedian: "Newhart and Gallagher"
09-05-1932 - Carol Lawrence - Melrose Park, IL
singer: "New Faces of 1948"
09-05-1939 - John Stewart - San Diego, CA - d. 1-19-2008
singer: (Kingston Trio) "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; "Guest Star"
09-05-1941 - Alma de Groen - Foxton, New Zealand
writer: "Available Lighe"; "Stories in the Dark"

September 5th deaths

01-01-1889 - Maurice Baron - Lille, France - d. 9-5-1964
conductor of various symphony orchestras for radio
01-10-1927 - Gisele Mackenzie - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 9-5-2003
singer: "[removed] Woolworth Hour"; "Mario Lanza Show"; "Meet Giesele"
01-19-1909 - Merrill E. Joels - Hartford, CT - d. 9-5-2001
actor: "Counterspy"; "Aunt Jenny"; "The Big Story"
02-07-1901 - Bob Stephenson - Washington - d. 9-5-1970
announcer: "Jeff Regan, Investigator"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
02-17-1910 - Mark Hawley - New Jersey - d. 9-5-1986
announcer: Guy Lombardo's New Year's Eve broadcast
02-22-1905 - Jean Colbert - d. 9-5-1995
actor: "Young Dr. Malone"; "Portia Faces Life"
03-10-1918 - Heywood Hale Broun - NYC - d. 9-5-2001
cbs sports commentator: "Biography In Sound"
04-17-1925 - Blaine Walsh - Oconto, WI - d. 9-5-1985
sportscaster: Milwaukee Braves
05-28-1899 - Richard Lane - Rice Lake, WI - d. 9-5-1982
actor: Inspector Faraday "Boston Blackie"
06-22-1922 - Joe Siracuso - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-5-1997
drummer: "The Spike Jones Show"
06-27-1900 - Milt Mabie - d. 9-5-1973
singer: (The Westerners) "National Barn Dance"; "Plantation Party";
"Show Boat"
07-19-1925 - Ivor Roberts - Nottingham, England - d. 9-5-1999
character actor: "Station Road"
07-27-1912 - Irve Tunick - NYC - d. 9-5-1987
writer: "The Cavalcade of America"; "You Are There"
08-06-1922 - Jackie Kelk - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-5-2002
actor: Jimmy Olsen "Advs. of Superman"; Homer Brown "Aldrich Family"
08-27-1921 - Leo Penn - d. 9-5-1998
actor, film director: "Family Theatre"; "Hollywood Calling: George
Fisher Interviews"
09-16-1914 - Allen Funt - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-5-1999
host: "Candid Microphone"
10-21-1912 - George Solti - Budapest, Hungary - d. 9-5-1997
musical director, conductor: "Chicago Symphony Orchestra"
11-16-1921 - Evelyn Goodkin - d. 9-5-2005
actor: Marge Minter "Myrt and Marge"; Penny Latham "Dan Harding's Wife"
12-24-1910 - Fritz Leiber - Chicago, IL - d. 9-5-1992
science fiction writer: "X Minus One"; "Future Tense"; "Audion Theatre"
12-24-1910 - Mitchell Ayres - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-5-1969
bandleader: "Dunninger Show"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"

Ron

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 20:29:17 -0400
From: Stewart Wright <otrwash@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Script Re-Use and Multi-Part YTJD Matters

Many fans of the Old-Time Radio Detective genre enjoy the fifty-five
multi-part YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR stories. With more available air time,
these 1955-56 stories featured more plot and character development than could
accomplished in the standard 30-minute time frame.

However, many OTR fans do not know that AT LEAST TWENTY-TWO of these
multi-part stories were based on previously-written scripts from YOURS TRULY,
JOHNNY DOLLAR and other series.

ALL EIGHTEEN multi-part YTJD stories written by John Dawson, a pen name used
by E. Jack Neuman, utilized 30-minute scripts that he had previously written
or co-written for JOHNNY DOLLAR and other series such as:
NIGHT BEAT;
JEFF REGAN, INVESTIGATOR;
THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE;
and
RICHARD DIAMOND, PRIVATE DETECTIVE.

Additionally, four multi-part YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR stories written by
Les Crutchfield recycled 30-minute scripts that Crutchfield had previously
written for the series.

One That Went The Other Way
A multi-part YTJD storyline written by Jack Johnstone, "The Curse of Kamashek
Matter" (which aired 09/03/1956 through 09/07/1956), was later reused as a
30-minute SUSPENSE episode "The Curse of Kamoshek."  Johnstone used his pen
name, Jonathan Bundy, for this script reuse which aired on 04/22/1962.

If you would like to know which script(s) were reused for specific multi-part
YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR Matters,"
go to the YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR Forum at The Nostalgia Pages website:
[removed]
and Click on the
"Script Re-Use and Multi-Part Matters"
Thread.

Signing off for now,

Stewart

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 20:29:28 -0400
From: Penny Yingling <bandpy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re:  Mickey Rooney
X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain

With interest, I read two opposing comments regarding Mickey Rooney and his
ongoing show and thought I'd add my two cents.  I just hope he comes close to
my "neck of the woods" and I'm fortunate enough to go see him.    I'd go see
him in a heartbeat.  As one lister states, "when all is said and done, he's
still Mickey Rooney, movie, radio, and TV star."  Bless him for having the
fortitude to go on entertaining to the best of his ability at his age, and
for the many years already given.  He's up there with the ranks of George
Burns - just keeps ticking, even tho' not so loudly.    Once they (the stars
of yore) are ALL gone,  who's going to entertain us as they did all those
years?!!! (oh, yes, thanks be to our living in an age where we have the means
to listen again & again).

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 20:29:33 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 6-12 September

 From Those Were The Days

9/6

1920   The first prizefight broadcast on radio featured Jack Dempsey
knocking out Billy Miske in the third round of a bout in Benton Harbor,
MI. Radio station WWJ in Detroit was the station that fight fans were
tuned to.

9/8

1935   The Hoboken Four, featuring Frank Sinatra as lead singer,
appeared on Major Bowes Amateur Hour on WOR. The group won the
competition held at the Capitol Theatre in New York City.

1944   Ed Wynn resumed his radio career after seven years off the air.
Wynn starred in Happy Island on the NBC Blue network.

9/9

 From the New York Times Today in history

1926    the National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) was created by the Radio
Corp. of America.

 From Those Were The Days

1946   Ben Alexander hosted Heart's Desire for the first time, a
giveaway contest program on the Mutual Broadcasting System.

9/10

1935   "I'm Popeye the sailor [removed]" toot! toot! Popeye was heard for
the first time on NBC. The show was based on the Elzie Crisler Segar
comic strip, which featured Popeye, Olive Oyl, Brutus, Wimpy and
Sweepea. Now, eat your spinach in celebration!

9/12

1938   [removed] Kaltenborn made broadcasting history by covering a crisis in
Czechoslovakia for CBS beginning on this day. Kaltenborn was so devoted
to his work that he slept in the studio for 18 days while bringing
updates to his appreciative audience.

Joe

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