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Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-19 | Page 16 | Winchell Laughs at World's Quirks; Puts out Oddities Form Here, There

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Date 1937-08-19
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
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City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Winchell Laughs at World's Quirks; Puts out Oddities Form Here, There
Type article
Date 1937-08-19
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 16
OCR Text WINCHELL LAUGHS AT WORLD'S QUIRKS; PUTS OUT ODDITIES FROM HERE, THERE By WALTER WINCHELL Things I Never Knew Til Now Mussolini is bug on astrology and rarely makes an important move unless the stars are propitious. (That's very funny. I always al-ways thought Mussolini was the only star he ever recognized!) Th famous poisons used by th Borgiaa wer nothing but plain arsenic, according to chtmisu. (What a press agent they had!) Tou can put an alligator to sleep by stroking the top of bis chub. (Who, me? Let him take ovaltine! sswduat (That's using their heads, all right) Stephens college. In Missouri, has courses to teach girls how to dress and powder the nose. (The profa are men!) , It'a a aafe wager to make that if you asked 100 people about Cleopatra's Cleo-patra's nationality, M would aay ahe was an Egyptian. he was a Greek, my fraaaand, any bets?) Manhattan Isn't the famous island's correct name. (It should be Manahachtanienk but aome dopes can't spell it.) In New Guinea, it's not polite to eat the body of a slain Purari warrior unless you first ask permission per-mission from the guy's family. (And by all means, don't forget to use the proper fork!) In Spain, women's bathing auits must have sleeves and must tome down to the knees. (As though they haven't enough troubles there.) People who are going to be hanged are aald to have the figure fig-ure of a scaffold in their palms. (Don't look now but!) The most valuable American coin is the 1804 silver dollar. (There are only 14 the rest of them, 1 is alleged, al-leged, having gone down to the bottom of the Pacific en rout to China many years ago.) Th Statue of Liberty atands with her back to the U. 8. men in Ecuador. (Silly.) One of the leading movie palaces in Buenos Aires ahowa five feature fea-ture pictures for Hie price of one. (I can't stand two!) The aun is gradually melting away at the rate of 360.000.000,000 tons a day. (N. Y. swelrerers won't believe that one. at all!) Boston Isn't the champ city to ban ! books. (It's Sydney. Australia.) The fourth move In a game of chess Is said to be the most important im-portant (Nine out of 10 defeata can be traced back to it.) Peanuts are a vegetable, not a nut (Belong to the bean tribe.) Christopher Columbus received $300 for discovering America. (Today he would have been booked atr Loew'a State.) Mora twins are born In Ireland than anywhere else in the world. (Probably because the colleens there are eooo pretty.) Th first Industry to recover after a depression is always th shoe business. (People wear 'em out looking for jobs.) In i Sweden, by dialing a number of the telephone, you can get the weather forecast (Must be novel-getting novel-getting rh wrong weather!) Incidentally, about 80.000 New Yorkers dial for the tlm vry day. (Eighty thousand nickels every ev-ery day!) According to some of our great doctors, four out of fiv persona shouldn't eat apples, at all. In Turkestan, visitors are given three days in which to gel) married mar-ried or get out (It'a a crime to be a bachelor there.) One of the main reasons why not enough citisens sing the National Anthem is that its two-octave range ia too much of a bother. In Germany they are now making mak-ing chocolate cream fillings from
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