Show WALTER WINCHELL THINGS I NEVER KNEW TILL NOW V Unintelligent Items Hems for Intelligent Idiots That the richest man In the world Is the In Indian Indian Indian In- In dian prince known as the Nizam of Part of his fabulous fortune is s due duo to the practice of extracting a n. gift gUt from each of ot his official dinner guests He s ss sa a plenty wise guy Usually has about for dinner 1 That If youre you're ever by Chinese bandits you can save your life by refusing to get down on your our knees when they want to behead you It Is bad manners to decapitate a n. man not man not kneeling c. c 4 0 That the expression thc the forgotten man Is not of 1932 coinage Its It's on page 64 the title to chapter three of Tho The Life and Letters of ot Walter H. H Page by HendrIch 0 0 Listen to the Bird made maile That Mocking three million smackers for the publishers and still Is the biggest song hit lilt ever written 0 0 0 That Aristotle believed that deaf dear people had no souls souIs That there Isn't a n. single sleight of hand trick In which the sleeve is employed That's why they're always so willing to roll them up to fool you on your first guess 0 0 0 That wise European travelers are the last ones off oft the boat rather than the first be because ause by that time customs men are arc likely to be tired 0 0 0 That R uR Crusoe was the first newspaper se serial serial se- se rial published 0 0 0 0 That according to Burton Rascoe Daniel Defoe Invented tho the idea of or jests and satirical thrusts 0 lit 0 That many scholars believe large parts of ot Paradise Paradise Para Pars dise Lost to be bo sheer plagiarism Please dont don't talk about me rue when Im I'm gone 4 0 o 0 That a professor has found that the average American radio Is turned on hours per day 0 0 0 That no celebrated composer ever committed suicide I S 0 0 That It costs less postage to send a letter from Japan to Chicago than it does to send one to your next door neighbor here e 0 0 0 That Schubert's c effects when he died including his cash came to the sum of 8 0 0 S That Liszt Indefatigable amorist and hot piano classics was a a. regularly ordained abbe and wore clerical robes 0 0 f o 0 That the famous tenor was so thrifty stingy to you that he washed his own underwear and sox Ii ir f 0 0 0 That a n needle when floated in a glass of water is an accurate compass the point always turning to the north 0 o 0 0 That Alexander Hamilton one of or the snootier aristocrats was of ot extremely obscure origin Which Incidentally was the cause of his duel with Aaron Burr I hope this doesn't burr you 0 0 0 That In n the original version of or Cinderella there wasn't any hokum or anything about silver sIlver- slippers 0 0 0 That Gandhi's English has a slight Irish brogue 0 S 0 That life lire insurance companies paid out over four billion bUlion dollars in 1931 In fewer words most dead people arc worth a lot of ot money 0 0 4 0 That a prof of the Univ of or WIs says says' Its It's O. O Ito K I. to say It Is me loan me a pencil and who are you looking for the Idea being that 1 If a phrase Is In common usage It will be absorbed into the language and considered correct later correct later or sooner 0 S 0 That a 9 gossip originally lly meant a a. god 0 0 00 0 That at least 39 companies whose common shares are arc listed on the New York stock exchange have continued to pay regular dividends which are equal to or greater than their regular rates paid in 1929 Copyright 1932 Daily Mirror Inc o G |