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Dead Air
The Night That Orson Welles Terrified America
William Elliot Hazelgrove 2024 / Beaverton Lib. 791.4472
Orson Welles Wikipedia / 1915 May Kenosha / 1985 October Los Angeles
p022 1926 Sep Todd Seminary for Boys
- p023 Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale IQ 185 (sic - that is more than 6 standard deviations, 2 in a billion, unlikely)
Quoted from Orson Welles and Roger Hill by Todd Tarbox, 2013.
p043 March of Time radio program 1931 to 1945
p060 1938 March 27 daughter Christopher(!) Welles (Feder) born Youtube
p061 Snedens Landing 20 miles north of New York, west side of Hudson
- p063 script hashed out over night over hash in Perkin's Restaurant
p065 Edgar Bergen ventriloquist for Charlie McCarthy puppet, most of 32M audience,
p065 Mercury Theatre on the Air 3.6%, about 1.2M
p065 [ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Theatre | Mercury Theatre ]] 1937 to 1948 on stage
p066 Hooper Rating
p066 asthmatic Wells moves to St. Regis Hotel to avoid pollen
- p198 "America was never bombed on its mainland during World War II"
not quite true, 9300 incendiary balloon bombs launched from Japan, 300 found, 6 people killed near Bly, Oregon