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Show Those who think that Marshall P. Wilder does not think of anything but humor are mistaken. mis-taken. He had just had a serious moment, and even that looked like a joke until 'it was explained. ex-plained. In connection with this event he telephoned tele-phoned a press clipping man and said: "You gather up clippings from all the-.newspapers when men die, don't you?" i "We do." "And make them into obituary volumes?". "Yes." "Well, then, gather all the clippings about my death." "Why, you're not dead, are you?" "I guess not, but you can take the order and make the memorial if I ever happen to die, can't you?" And then the humorist explained that he had just made his will and put a provision' in i$ by which an allowance was set aside for this memorial, mem-orial, containing everything the papers happened to say concerning his demise. That is why a clipping bureau has an order that they don't know exactly when they can fill. . |