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This episode is Scene Five of Who Is Della.  It's 1957.  Della Martin and her companion, Viola Powell, are living in a private home in San Gabriel, California.  Della, Viola, Stanley and the Sheppard Family (James with his children: Eileen, Pam and Tom), are sharing current events in the living room.   Kelly Sievers is the voice of Della Martin.

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This episode is Scene Four of Who Is Della. It's May 1956.  The combined Della Martin team (Stanley, Frank Ober, Jr., Sheppard Mullin attorneys and medical consultants) are meeting with the executives of Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena.  Della Martin, after her release from Patton State Hospital, will begin a residential transition treatment program in a special unit at Huntington Memorial. 

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This episode is Scene Three of Who Is Della.  Stanley and Frank Ober, Jr., are in Los Angeles to meet with James Sheppard and his team as they plan a future for Glenn Martin's sister, Della. The meeting is in a large conference room in the downtown office of Sheppard Mullin, a prominent legal firm.

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This episode is Scene Two of Who Is Della.  It's January 1956.  Stanley and Frank Ober, Jr., are in Chicago for the winter meeting of the American Bar Association. They're staying at the famous Conrad Hilton Hotel.  They will join James Sheppard, a California attorney, for drinks in the hotel's Normandie Lounge.

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This episode is Scene One of Who Is Della.  It's late December 1955,  after the death of Glenn L. Martin, the iconic Middle River, B-26 manufacturer. Our hero, Stanley Silverfield, is meeting with Frank Ober, Jr., who is Glenn Martin's attorney, in the downtown Baltimore office of Ober, Williams and Grimes.  

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This is the introduction to Who Is Della, the fourth and final play in The Silver King's War podcast series.  The series follows a young aviator, Stanley Silverfield, through his Second World War as a B-26 bombardier. Who Is Della creates an imagined life for Stanley as he becomes a design executive with Martin Manufacturing in Middle River, Maryland. 

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This is Episode Ten, The Serviceman epilogue.  Michael G. Sievers, the writer, producer and creator of The Silver King's War, discusses a decade of work on his father's Second World War as a B-26 Bombardier.

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This episode is Scene Eight of Serviceman.   Our hero, The Silver King, has just started a job with Lee Bernstein's company, Acme Paper Box Manufacturing.  The address: 5950 South State Street in Chicago, Illinois.  He's a production engineer,  It's January 10, 1946.  Three years to the day when he rode the train from Birmingham to Nashville to begin his war.  His job will shield him from flying in the Korean War.

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This episode (published on Father's Day: June 20, 2021) is Scene Seven in Serviceman.  It's mid-December 1945.  The Bernsteins and Stanley are celebrating with the Norman & Jane Gordon family, who are neighbors in the building.  Norman's older sister, Phyllis, is home from Europe after her Red Cross service and the party is buzzing with good cheer.  The Silver King met the youngest Gordon family sibling, Shirley June, that evening.  They married seventy-five years ago (June 19, 1946) at Chicago's Intercontinental Hotel.  Stanley &  Shirley had two children, two grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.  The Silver King died in October 1990; he was 67.  Shirley died in April 2018; she was 95.

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This episode is Scene Six in Serviceman.  Our hero, the post-war King, and his war buddy, JJ Sherry, are celebrating JJ's visit to Chicago from Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. They're sitting at a two-top in a famous nightclub, The Chez Paree, on W. Fairbanks Court, near Lake Michigan. Stanley and JJ visited the club in early 1944 as they drove from bomber school in Carlsbad, New Mexico, to advance training in Columbia, South Carolina.

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