I hope you are getting through the crisis well and enjoying daily life despite so many places of business and entertainment being closed.  My daughter did tell me yesterday that it looks as if the major league baseball season may soon start, with all the games being played in Arizona.  It would be great to have baseball on television again.

I am writing to update our previous correspondence and to ask your advice on a matter.  After you told me about "Radiogram" I composed an article that was slightly longer than the one I had envisioned because I discovered that on one particular reel in the SPERDVAC General Library there are four different old-time radio soap opera episodes that are not in the OTRR Library collection, one of which I think has never been circulated because it is not even listed in the catalog as being on that reel. 

Earlier this week I submitted the article to Patrick Luciano using the email address Radiogram@....  I have not yet received a reply acknowledging receipt of the submission, which concerns me because most people, as I always do, respond promptly to email messages.

If Patrick is the person you refer to as your good friend and someone who has published quite a few of your notes and articles in "Radiogram", then you know him well enough to advise me as to how to proceed.  I have had a number of thoughts, the foremost being that he looked at the article and rejected it out of hand and did not think it was worth even a reply.  Another is that perhaps he only gets around to reading submissions on weekends and thus has not yet seen it.  One editor I submitted a piece to went ten days without replying to my message.  Finally, exasperated, I wrote him and asked if he  was in a coma.  He replied testily that he has accepted the article, that it is slated for publication at a later date, and that he doesn't think it necessary to jump right on every message he receives and respond immediately.  He said he sometimes goes three days without reading his emails!

I do hope this message is amusing you, but I will finally get to the point.  Do you have any advice for me as to how to proceed?  I am thinking that if I don't hear back from Patrick by Monday, he probably has no interest in what I submitted and I will just find somewhere else to share the information contained in it.  Do you think I should write him again if he has not replied by tomorrow, or just let the matter go?

I will abide by whatever advice you give me if you reply to this message.  Also, please let me know if Patrick is the current editor and whether I did use the correct email address for my submission.

I hope to hear back from you today if it is convenient for you to reply.

Best wishes,

Larry Maupin 

  

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From: "Gary Coville"
To: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io
Cc:
Sent: Monday April 6 2020 12:58:28AM
Subject: Re: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] One More Intro

Larry,

By all means submit what you may have.  You don't need to be  a member of SPERDVAC to submit something for publication.  The email address is Radiogram@...

Regards,
Gary Coville

Hello Gary.  This is a great post.  I think you uploaded some episodes of shows to the Purchasing Group that I have listened to and enjoyed, so thank you for that.

It is impressive that you are a published author and the best friend of "Radiogram's" editor.  I once belonged to SPERDVAC and have considered joining again.  I have a few short pieces that I might submit to him.  One is about an episode of a show that nobody knows about because it is not listed in any of the SPERDVAC library catalogs.  It is not even in the OTRR Library collection, so he might enjoy my identifying it and sending him a short summary of it.  This is a good example of why I read everybody's posts.

Best wishes,

Larry Maupin

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From: "Gary Coville"
To: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io
Cc:
Sent: Sunday April 5 2020 2:15:06PM
Subject: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] One More Intro

I’ll turn 71 in a couple of months and confess that my interest in radio carries all the way back to my childhood in the 1950s.  Hardly anything was worse for a kid back then than a night without television.  A tube would burn out and suddenly darkness descended upon the world while we awaited the arrival of the TV repairman.  One night, after this tragedy struck, my mother introduced me to “radio without pictures.”  I still remember the two shows I listened to that fateful evening: Gang Busters and My Little Margie.  My grandparents lived just a block away and it was another ten years or so before they got their first TV set and so I was exposed to radio in their house.  I remember my grandmother liked her soaps; Stella Dallas was one of her favorites.  I specifically recall my grandfather listening to The Lone Ranger at full volume because he was quite hard of hearing.  I couldn’t figure out at the time why the Lone Ranger’s voice sounded so different from my television version.  I decided the radio must somehow be distorting the Ranger’s voice.  Of course, radio changed radically not too long after my introduction to real radio and such programming virtually disappeared.

 

I’ve never lost my fascination with either OTR or OTTV.  While I was in college I purchased my first reel to reel recorder and began acquiring reel to reel tapes of the great radio shows.  I began reading about and researching the history of both radio and television.  Later I started writing about my favorite two subjects.  During the ensuing years, I’ve co-authored three books and a number of articles incorporating some of what I’ve learned.  The editor of SPERDVAC’s Radiogram is my oldest and closest friend and usually desperate for material.  So I usually have an outlet for my ramblings.  I would encourage anyone in the group with the urge to write about some aspect of radio to give it a go.  No better time than right now while we are all so restricted in our movements. 

 

Stay safe, everyone.

 

Gary Coville

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Larry Maupin