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January 29, 1951 on the Don Lee Mutual Network. Bob Bailey stars as George Valentine with veteran radio dramatic actor Virginia Gregg. The celebrated and glamorous movie star, Charity de Frane, has purchased an oil painting for Mr. Francis Xavier Wick, a critic in a Santa Claus suit. He celebrates Christmas in July, and there's murder under the Christmas tree. Let George Do It was a radio drama series produced by Owen and Pauline Vinson from 1946 to 1954. Olan Soule stepping into the role in 1954.

Episode 6 of Robin Morrow's series Christmas Fantasy. The first appearance of a modern Santa Claus, complete with what we consider to be the Santa suit was in drawings by Thomas Nast. Nast's original drawings were of a small Santa who could slide down chimneys, but his later works made him full size. He was also the first to draw Santa wearing a red suit with fur lining, a nightcap, and a black belt with a large buckle. Hear this and other stories of Christmas.

Murrow died at his home on April 27, 1965 two days after his 57th birthday. His colleague and friend Eric Sevareid said of him, "He was a shooting star; and we will live in his afterglow a very long time." CBS carried a memorial program, hosted by Robert Trout, which included a rare appearance by CBS chairman William S. Paley.

https://worldhistoryproject.org/1965/4/27/edward-r-murrow-dies

July 8, 1949 NBC Radio Network. Downs worked as a radio announcer and program director in 1939 at WLOK in Lima, Ohio, after his first year of college. In 1940, he moved on to WWJ in Detroit. Downs served in the United States Army during World War II in 1943 and then joined the NBC radio network at WMAQ as an announcer in Chicago, where he lived until 1954. Origination of the early Dave Garroway Show. While at WMAQ, Downs also acted, including as the "co-pilot", along with famed Chicago children's program personality Ned Locke, on the Uncle Ned's Squadron program in 1951  https://garrowayatlarge.com/index.php/2021/03/10/remembering-hugh-downs/

Charles Ancliffe (188https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ancliffe0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ancliffe– 20 December 1952) was an Irish born composer of light music, chiefly remembered for his marches and waltzes.

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Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. ABBADO Vienna P O - Pastoral Symphony No 6 Op 68 - BEETHOVEN

Episode 6 c.1948. Alan Ladd as writer Dan Holliday takes a blackjack on the head and finds himself on the high seas to adventure. Box 13 was a syndicated radio series from Ladd's company Mayfair Productions and sold to radio stations. The series also was heard on Mutual Radio Network. To seek out new ideas for his fiction, Holliday ran a classified ad in the Star-Times newspaper where he formerly worked: "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything: write Box 13, Star-Times." The stories followed Holliday's adventures when he responded to the letters sent to him by various victims. NOTE: Shanghaiing or crimping is the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as crimps. 

Episode 8 Harry's on crossing the Atlantic on the Princess Ann, planning to swindle to Lady Barbara Follet. However, what about her lovely companion. The Adventures of Harry Lime (broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime ) is an old-time radio program produced in the United Kingdom during the 1951 to 1952 season. Orson Welles reprises his role of Harry Lime from the celebrated 1949 film The Third Man . The radio series depicts the many misadventures of con-artist Lime in a somewhat lighter tone than that of the film.

Robin Morrow's holiday program is designed to be played daily between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Christmas Fantasy is a great way to enhance the spirit of the season 25 old time radio show recordings. Episode 5 is about Isaac Watts (17 July 1674 – 25 November 1748). He was an English Christian minister (Congregational), theologian, and logician. He was also a prolific and popular hymn writer.  

Audio material was provided to RADIO THEN producer R A CAMPBELL by Jason Remington creator of Little Orphan Archie. This series was distributed to many radio stations several years ago. Enjoy another montage of audio clips from the past.