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Show Sunday, February Washington loved bailons and theaters .In February of each year, as Americans remember George Washington the familiar myths eome to mind the little boy who chopped down a cherry tree, the strong young man who threw a driver dollar across the Potomac River, the president who wore wooden teeth. Unfortunately, not one of these legends is true, but historians at Mount Vernon have uncoverd a host of equally interestn facts about the ing Father of Our Country. So, get ready for the surprising truth about CSeorge Washington. ?- - Fit For A King. It has been said that Washington's popularity at the end of the war was so great that he could have become king. Of course, Washington himself felt Strongly that a monarch was exactly, what the new nation did not need, having just endured years of warfare to break away from the monarchy of England. By resigning his commission at the end of the war and returning to his farms at Mount Vernon, Washington sent a clear message to the citizens of little-know- Stars bare their souls on popular - It is more went on the air on Jan. 29, 1942, LONDON (AP) selective than "Who's Who," almost everyone who's anyone has probably-morprestigious, and it's bared his soul on the program, or at least let drop some riveting pernot even on TV. For many of Britain's elite, the sonal insights. ultimate accolade is an invitation to Pop stars, composers, politi"Desert Island Discs," a cians, royalty, actors, academics, radio program that opens with a millionaires, dukes, authors, archscratchy recording of screaming bishops and athletes have been seagulls and sticks to a format among the 2,000 castaways. "It's a perfect example of the scarcely changed in 50 years. During the program, the guest radio art," said Sue Lawley, one n reminisces between snatches of his of Britain's top TV eight favorite records before being journalists, who has hosted the Briconsigned to imaginary solitude on tish Broadcasting Corp. program a desert island with one book, one since 1988. "You capture the moment when of the records and one luxury item. Since "Desert Island Discs" memory meets the music, which e half-doze- THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 16, 1992 Page itish radio show often gives life to something more revealing than even the most incisive questioning. ... The nature of the program gives you license to ask questions like, 'Can you cope on your own? Are you lonely?'" Alan Alda, the ebullient star of the hit TV series "MASH," asked for lots of Stephen Sondheim's music and openly discussed problems with his mother. g novelist A.S. Byatt poured out to the program's 2 million listeners the d her with eminent rivalry sister, writer Margaret Drabble, and the crushing tragedy of the death of son. her 11 year-old "Life is short and life is sweet," the Joan Collins told Lawley. "It's not going to be sweet if you're saddled with some man who makes you sick. ' ' On Sunday, the program also broadcast periodically on the BBC World Service marks its with John Major, the first time a serving prime minister becomes a castaway. There are only 42 invitations a half-centu- Prize-winnin- leader Sir Oswald Mosley. Adolf Hitler, she confided on the show, "was of course extraordinarily fascinating and clever. " Few refuse an invitation. ry Jagger. Most castaways ask for popular classics Beethoven's "Ode To Joy" tops the list. A piano is the most sought-afte- r luxury and an encyclopaedia the top book choice (the island comes equipped with the Bible and Shakespeare). But it's by no means routine. year, and they are occasionally controversial. There were hundreds of protests in 1989 about the interview with Lady Diana Mosley, widow of Britain's World War II Fascist deep-seate- -- The exceptions include George Bernard Shaw, publisher Rupert Murdoch and the Rolling Stones' Mick the United States. But how many of those citizens realized that their new hero was in fact a direct de- recliners, sofas, sofa sleepers, reclining sofas, all at incredible savings! Everything throughout the store is also reduced. Incredible savings on our Basset Gallery, Serta Mattresses with FREE FRAMES (See details below), Maytag Appliances, Tell City, Washington and more!! La-Z-B- oy scendant of a British monarch? George Washington is a descendant of Edward I, King of England from 1272 to 1307. Washington's Lawrence Washington married Margaret Butler, who descends from Edward I. Up, Up And Away. Somehow, Qeorge Washington and hot air ballooning just don't seem connected. But Washington was an early supporter of ballooning and witnessed the ascent of Jean Pierre Blanchard's balloon on January 9, 4J93, when the Frenchman took Vf from Philadelphia for the first Serial voyage in America. Nine fears earlier,' after hearing accounts of air balloons from a friend tn France, Washington predicted that "our friends at Paris, in a little time, will come flying thro' the Sir, instead of ploughing the Ocean p get to America." Ah, Wilderness! Images of ear-j- y American patriots are somewhat staid, so it is difficult to picture peorge Washington exploring the jvilderness. Yet Washington was pne of the few founding fathers with extensive firsthand experience on the western frontier. At the age of 16, Washington was hired by the wealthy and influential Lord F airfax to join a party surveying Fairfax's western lands. 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