[bksvol-discuss] OT:googling--and a Let's Pretend personal story
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:19:17 -0800 (PST)
Well, Sue, it's mostly trial and error what to put
into google--and not everything can be found. I tried
your Patricia Ryan with a variety of words in the
string to no avail. Then one of the sites suggested I
try google books. Instead I went to amazon and found
this title: Let's Pretend and the Golden Age of
radio, by Norman Corwin. It may have information on
her. The book description is this:"This new, improved
and expanded biography of everyone's favorite radio
show, Let's Pretend, now contains a complete log of
the series by radio historians Martin Grams, Jr. and
Derek Teague.
About the Author
Arthur Anderson, an actor for 69 years, started
playing character roles for Nila Mack on Let's Pretend
at age 13, and was on it almost every week (with time
out for military service) until the program's demise.
He played the boy Lucius in Orson Welles' spectacular
Broadway production of Julius Caesar, and was then in
Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air on CBS. He was most
recently the voice of the nasty farmer Eustace in the
TV cartoon series Courage, the Cowardly Dog, but he's
most proud of his 29 years as the original voice of
the Lucky Charms (cereal) Leprechaun. "
I just re-read your post and you say she was also on
television. I did put Let's Pretend into IMDB.com;
there were two movies but neither was the radio show.
But if you know what televsion show she might have
been on, you can put that into IMDB and then click on
her name in the cast. There might be a brief biography
there.
When I was a child I listened to the show every week.
Somewhere betwee 4th and 6th grades, when I was living
in New York, our brownie or Girl Scout troop went to
see a taping of the show. I was *so* disappointed. I
expected to see a play with sets, costumes, etc.
Instead, there was a bare stage and actors stepping up
to the microphone to read their parts! My first
disillusionment. smile
Cindy
- siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Wow! Thanks, Cindy. That clears it up. The key is
> to the left of 1 on my
> keyboard too.
>
> OT: How do you search so well?? For example, there
> was a child actress on
> Old Time Radio named Patricia Ryan. She was on
> "Let's Pretend" and started
> on TV as well but died at a young age. I tried to
> search for a short
> biography but could not find her. If you were
> searching, what would you put
> in the search string?
>
> Sorry, folks, for the OT.
>
> Sue S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 4:40 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Section break page
> break
>
>
> > Sue, I'm not Tom, but -- I started to explain but
> > googled to be sure I was correct in thinking it's
> used
> > in Spanish and I found this wonderful
> definition--"A
> > diacritical mark ( ~ ) placed over the letter n in
> > Spanish to indicate the palatal nasal sound (ny),
> as
> > in cañon, or over a vowel in Portuguese to
> indicate
> > nasalization, as in lã, pão." (I didn't know it
> was
> > used in Portuguese). I think Tom described it as
> an
> > elongated s lying on its side.
> >
> > A grave accent is the reverse of the acute accent,
> i.e
> > it' slants left and the acute slants right.
> >
> > I just noticed that on my keyboard the key to the
> left
> > of the number one has a tilde at the top and the
> grave
> > symbol (BTW, Tom--you did spell it correctly--but
> Sue,
> > it's pronouced grahv) symbol at the bottom. It's
> used
> > in both French and other languages--I can't
> remember
> > if it's used much in Spanish, but I googled again
> and
> > found it's in Italian and other languages, too.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> > --- siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I am not Lissi, Tom, but what the heck is tilda?
> A
> > > key? And you say grave
> > > accent. Are they the same thing?
> > >
> > > Sue S.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "tom hawkins" <tjhawk1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 3:28 PM
> > > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Section break page
> > > break
> > >
> > >
> > > > Dear Lissi, I, went back and reviewed what I
> sent
> > > to you and realized I
> > > > didn't tell you to exit M S Word after saving
> from
> > > using the Find And
> > > > Replace routine. It's important only after
> > > putting the hard page breaks
> > > in.
> > > > Also, using the control F, ALT F, Escape
> series
> > > of commands repeatedly
> > > > takes you successively from nonbreaking hyphen
> to
> > > nonbreaking hyphen
> > > > without re-entering the caret tilda. Well I
> think
> > > that's about it. Best
> > > > Tom--- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 8:27 AM
> > > > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Section break
> page
> > > break
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Dear Tom,
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you for the information. Do you use
> these
> > > key strokes at each
> > > > > section break, as the cursor is on the line
> > > below it? Or, do you go into
> > > > > some menu bar and those strokes, as you
> > > described below, then change the
> > > > > breaks for the whole book.
> > > > >
> > > > > What if some have already been exchanged for
> > > page breaks as I have for
> > > > > the first 40 pages of this funny,
> imaginative
> > > collection of folk tales
> > > and
> > > > > myths.
> > > > >
> > > > > I laughed a plenty at the ridiculous cat
> > > cleaning joke you sent. I spoil
> > > > > and love my dogs lavishly and get tearful at
> any
> > > description of hurtful
> > > > > things done to animals and usually beg the
> > > person to stop telling me
> > > > > before my heart breaks, but, your humor was
> an
> > > exercise in the absurd
> > > and
> > > > > I, who need humor in my life even more than
> > > usual, appreciated the
> > > change
> > > > > of pace and the little giggle.
> > > > >
> > > > > It wasn't until I began meeting people on
> > > computer that I realized some
> > > > > people are genuinely offended by certain
> humor.
> > > It's made me caughtious
> > > > > now that I know humor makes some people
> seethe
> > > instead of laugh. I'm
> > > sure
> > > > > I have boundaries in what I consider funny,
> too,
> > > but I personally found
> > > > > your post a hoot. I'm sure everyone knows
> you
> > > meant no harm and we have
> > > to
> > > > > accept the fact that one person's joke is
> > > another's insult.
> > > > >
> > > > > Recently I mailed a joke about Bush to 3
> > > friends. Two of them raved
> > > about
> > > > > how funny it was and were busily passing it
> on.
> > > The third scolded me
> > > > > twice, calling me a few insulting things.
> > > Passive me, replied that I'd
> > > > > take her opinions about humor in to account
> in
> > > the future and dropped
> > > the
> > > > > matter, deleting the scoldings and not over
> > > reacting, leaving the
> > > > > friendship in tact.
> > > > >
> > > > > When I get humor I think is in poor taste, I
> who
> > > never even mildly say
> > > bad
> > > > > words, I just delete it and avoid
> insencerity by
> > > not passing it on, and
> > > > > not writing to the person and raving about
> how
> > > funny it was. I think my
> > > > > lack of reaction gets my point across.
> > > > >
> > > > > I think the longer we remain on a list, the
> more
> > > we come to know the
> > > > > complexity of its members and realize like
> real
> > > people, they are basicly
> > > > > wonderful, often better than most, but we've
> all
> > > got our tender spots.
> > > > >
> > > > > Just a reminder since I've wandered so farr
> > > afield, I'm looking forward
> > > to
> > > > > learning more about using the commands you
> > > provided which you can review
> > > > > below.
> > > > >
> > > > > Always With Love,
> > > > >
> > > > > Lissi
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi I'll will jump in with the info, Find ,
> > > carret lower case b. The
> > > > > carret is a shift six. and Replace with
> carret
> > > lower case m. That will
> > > > > change all of your section breaks to hard
> page
> > > breaks. Happy
> > > > > Thanksgiving.
> > > > > Tom
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Cindy,
> > > > > Different programs will handle section and
> page
> > > breaks differently. So
> > > to
> > > > > someone validating a book, it may appear
> that
> > > there are no page breaks,
> > > > > but they may not realize that section breaks
> are
> > > there.That could cause
> > > > > the validator to reject the book on the
> basis of
> > > no page
> > > > > breaks.
> > > > >
> > > > > The BookShare system however handles each
> > > equally. The process for
> > > > > converting section breaks to page breaks is
> an
> > > easy find/replace in MS
> > > > > Word. If you're interested I'm sure Gerald
> or I
> > > could dig it out of the
> > > > > archive.
> > > > >
> > > > > We're on a semester deal and this one is
> going
> > > well. I'm still hanging
> > > in
> > > > > with all A's at this point, there are just
> two
> > > weeks and then a week of
> > > > > finals left.
> > > > >
> > > > > The weather? Kind of cool, 30s-50s
> generally, a
> > > lot cooler than what we
> > > > > became used to with this longer fall (in
> terms
> > > of weather).
> > > > >
> > > > > I've been enjoying the lack of things
> hanging
> > > over my head and I've been
> > > > > able to get a lot of BookShare volunteering
> done
> > > these last couple of
> > > days
> > > > > as well.
> > > > >
> > > > > Happy Thanksgiving!
> > > > > Jake
> > > > >
> > > > > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Section break
> page
> > > break
> > > > > Interesting, Jake, I thought it did make a
> > > difference
> > > > > and that's why Tom or someone changed all
> his
> > > section
> > > > > breaks to page breaks. But you're more the
> > > expert at
> > > > > this than I am. smile
> > > > >
> > > > > I hope you're enjoying this brief break. Are
> you
> > > on a
> > > > > semester or a quarter system? HNow's the
> weather
> > > where you are?
> > > > >
> > > > > Cindy
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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