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Coming up Aces: Old-time radio listening, 17-18 April

Two days' old-time radio jewels, including but not limited to the easiest of Aces, Jack Benny and his former sotted bandleader, two distinct...

Going to the mattress: Old-time radio listening, 6 March

mr. ace and JANE: Talent Hunt for Radio Show (CBS, 1948)“Well,” wrote Goodman Ace, introducing a charming anthology of a few Easy Aces...

The easiest Ace: Old-time radio appreciation, 15 January

The son of Latvian immigrants, he was born 113 years ago today.Hebecame a newspaper reporter, abbreviated his given surname (Aiskowitz), and caught...

The Lady and the Self-Satirist: Old-Time Radio Listening, 4 June

mr. ace and JANE: THAT IS NO LADY, THAT IS MY WIFE (CBS, 1948)First, I want to say that the two principal characters in this story are not...

A Big Show Signs Off Forever: Old-Time Radio Appreciation, 20 April

1952 -- Throwback and forward pass at once, a valiant, usually engaging bid to preserve big-time, old-time radio variety programming against the...

So What's In a Name? Old-Time Radio Listening, 17 April

Easy Aces: Betty Leaves Carl Over the Baby's Name (CBS, 1941)It's a shame you can't isolate precise dates for most of what survived of...

It's All Relative, Unfortunately: old-time radio listening, 27 March

mr. ace and JANE: Sally is Fired (CBS, 1948)In every man's life, there are three women: his mother, his wife, and his secretary down at the...

The juror's still out (there): Old-time radio listening, 13 March

mr. ace andJANE: Jury Duty (CBS, 1948) Jane weighed in on the scales of justice at 105, wearing purple trunks and an off-the-face hat. In the other...