| Show j 0 t IJ i I ter l P t i r 1 Walter Wa Poes Poe's Raven Made Him Year a First Year a Man Mal 4 Snapshots of at This is what comes from reading books bools Edgar Allan Anan Poe Poc was a dollar a year man too He spent 10 years writing and rewriting The Raven and got 10 bucks for it The original manuscript sold the last time for Poe paid 3 a n month rent for his honeymoon cottage on Grand Concourse Concourse Concourse Con Con- course In the Bronx which is isnow isnow isnow historical now a New York state shrine If It it hadn't been a grand neighborhood for dandelions he hc and his bride would have starved Marconi son of oC an Italian father and Irish mother was 27 when he invented radio and even then there were people who wanted to kill him These cranks said electrical waves were passing through their bodies destroying their nerves and making it impossible impossible sible sibIe for them to Gandhi speaks English with an Irish accent a reminder that one of his first teachers was an Irishman Irishman Irish Irish- man When he took the vow of poverty he was making 15 a year as an attorney In South Africa and settling most of his cases out of court He got his ideas on civil disobedience from a book by an American David Thoreau Tho- Tho reau a Harvard graduate who became a hermit on the shore of ot Walden WaIden pond in Massachusetts and refused to pay taxes Barnum who said theres one born every minute was one him him- self sell He lost a fortune on a bears bear's grease hair tonic was swindled out of another selling illustrated Bibles trimmed again on a fire extinguisher that wouldn't extinguish extinguish extinguish extin extin- went into bankruptcy for half a million making alarm clocks Without a dime to his name he wrote a lecture on How to Make Money grossing 1000 a night And that's how the famous was born bom Danny Kaye wonder man of 1945 1915 unknown beyond Broadway little more than a year ago now gets a picture from rom Samuel Samuel Samuel Sam Sam- uel Goldwyn who Introduced him to the screen with Up In Arms and has his own radio show at a week In his new picture pic plc- ture Wonder Vonder Man he talks Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese sings in Russian French Italian and talk double-talk dances Balinese in time jive-time writes with both hands simultaneously and plays twins twillS of opposite temperaments tempera tempera- ments George Gershwin sold his first song for 5 nine years cars later a Hollywood studio paid just to use Rhapsody in Blue which he wrote In his spare time in a single picture Sir Isaac Newton was so absentminded absentminded absentminded ab ab- ab- ab sent-minded sent ho he once rammed his nieces niece's finger into his pipe Trying to fix ix himself a three min ute egg he boiled his watch while wh watching the egg egg When he went to fetch anything he usually came back without it He was usually last in his class at school He was a woman hater anc and never married He always claimed claim d he solved many of ot his mathematical problems In his sleep Einstein was a backward child who found it difficult to learn even evento evento evento to talk His teachers called him hima a bore and even his parents feared he was subnormal Once in Berlin Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin after he became famous as a mathematician he ho had an argument argument argument ment with a street car conductor about his change The man re recounted recounted re- re counted it handed it back and said The trouble with you isyou is isyou isyou you dont don't know how to figure Lord Byron was WM so 80 emotional that once a theatrical performance put him into convulsions In Ina a fit it of temper he threw his watch into the fire Ire and hammered it to pieces with the poker He also fired a pistol in the bedroom of ot i his wife who left leU him after a year of marria marriage e So he went to Venice and bought a harem Schiller SchUler liked to keep his feet In InIce Inice inIce ice while working He once wrote a full fun and perfect description description description tion of the Swiss land and people although he knew net neither Dante wrote his first i Beatrice at the ti It t b age ago of g 9 |
