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instead result in a new title to his list of crafts: novelist. At his retreat in Woodside, California, he indulged in his writing and granted a number of interviews, while also attending the Old-Time Radio (OTR) Conventions that paid him homage.

By his late 80s, Morse sent both picture and letter through the mail from his California home in 1990.

Actor Page Gilman, from "One Man's Family," was Jack Barbour. His character likewise enjoyed durability, lasting for the serial's duration. With a very early start, Gilman had childhood roles in "Memory Lane" and "Penrod and Sam" prior to the big opportunity of the major program. The only thing that kept him from "One Man's Family" was a stint in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Following retirement of the program, Gilman ventured into newspapers on the corporate side and advanced in the ranks. He even ushered in a third career of sorts later: as a farmer in Oregon.

In 2002 he sent a picture and letter from his Roseburg, Oregon, home.

Himan Brown, born in 1910, also struck a pioneering mark in radio. He produced and directed notable programs, including Detective "The Affairs of Peter Salem," which was first heard over the Mutual Network in 1949; Mystery-Adventure "Bulldog Drummond," beginning over Mutual in 1941; Drama "City Desk," with its debut on CBS in 1940; Science-Fiction Adventure "Flash Gordon," its foray on Mutual in 1935; Drama "Grand Central Station," on the NBC Blue Network from 1937; Drama "Grass Valley, USA"; Comedy-Drama "The Gumps"; Drama "Hilda Hope, M.D."; Mystery "Inner Sanctum," beginning over the NBC Blue Network in 1941; Serial Drama "Joyce Jordan, Girl Intern," first airing on CBS in 1938; Serial Drama "Little Italy," with its start over CBS in 1933; Serial Drama "Marie, the Little French Princess"; and Detective "The Thin Man," which came to radio on NBC in 1941.

The Radio Hall of Fame inductee and New York City resident sent a signed photograph during the early 1990s.

With his unmistakable nasal-sounding diction, actor-comedian Arnold Stang (born 1926) carved a prosperous vocation in radio and a presence that gained surefire familiarity with the public. The bespectacled performer was to be seen in the major genres of the performing medium, too, in a career spanning decades.

His radio-days endeavors included Serial Comedy-Drama "The Goldbergs," which first appeared over the NBC Blue Network in 1929; Comedy "The Henry Morgan Show"; "The Adventures of Archie Andrews"; Children's Variety "The Horn and

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