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Radioman follows the Yellow Brick Road to Dayton
From: Dayton Daily News
Date: 20071016
Author:MARY MCCARTY COMMENTARY
All roads lead to Dayton. Even, apparently, the Yellow Brick Road. Ever heard Jack Snow? The longtime Dayton radioman was given the rights to serialize the popular Oz series after the death of its creator, L. Frank Baum. Snow wrote "The Magical Mimics in Oz" in 1946 and "The Shaggy Man of Oz" in 1949, as well as publishing a compendium of Oz lore in 1954.
Yet even among the membership of the International Wizard of Oz Club, Snow remained something of a mystery. "There was a great deal known to Oz fans about all of the authors of the series except for him," noted Michael Gessel, former aide ...
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