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...Charles Michelson, Inc., which resurrected The Shadow, is also releasing eight other favorites in 52-week packages, including Dangerous Assignment, Famous Jury Trials and The Green Hornet. Detroit's Fred Flowerday, a former sound-effects expert, has acquired the licensing rights to two other oldtimers, The Lone Ranger ("Hi-Ho, Silver") and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon ("On, King, on, you huskies . . ."). To Flowerday, putting the Ranger back in the saddle is a particular labor of love: it was he who used to clomp a pair of rubber plumber's friends in a box of gravel at Detroit...
...heyday of the radio serial, roughly from 1933 to 1956, the heroes changed actors dozens of times. There were three Lone Rangers, two of whom are still alive and collecting royalties. Unfortunately for scores of actors who might otherwise be cashing in on the reruns, no one ever bothered to keep recordings of such microphone memorabilia as Buck Rogers, Jack Armstrong, or even Little Orphan Annie; if any exist, there are not enough to put together a series...
...there were, stations such as WJRZ in Newark, which devote three full hours every Sunday night to vintage drama, would use even more oldies. As it is, a station that starts broadcasting The Lone Ranger weekly can count on enough 30-min. installments of the Silver saga to last 50 years...
...large tanks for liquids, and Pittsburgh's Crucible Steel has become the world's largest manufacturer of steel for tools. Sharon Steel of Sharon, Pa., is a major producer of the strip steel that goes into office furniture and such auto parts as dashboards. Texas' Lone Star Steel converts local ore into pipes for oilmen, boasts overnight delivery to almost any driller in the Southwest. Says Lone Star Chairman George A. Wilson: "We've just got to give better service than the bigger companies, and do a good job of salesmanship...
Plainly, the state's offhand attitude invites the kind of freebooting enterprise for which Board Chairman Kidd's namesake was notorious. Salvage operators have already reported the appearance of well-equipped-and armed -claim jumpers, as well as thousands of lone-wolf divers who spend their weekends swarming hopefully around the wrecks that others have located...