Show iw Snapshots of Bi Shots I Th This Thu u u what comes cornu from I reading books I dollar a Edgar Allan Poe was a year man too He spent 10 years writing and rewriting The Raven and got 10 bucks for tor It The original manuscript sold the last time for Poe paid 3 a month rent for his honeymoon cottage cottage cot cot- tage on Grand Concourse In th the Bronx which is now a New York state historical shrine If it hadn't been a grand neighborhood for dandelions he and his bride would have starved Marconi son of an Italian father and Irish mother was 27 when hen he invented radio and even then there were people who wanted to kill him These cranks said electrical x their waves aves were passing through bodies destroying their nerves and making it impossible for them to sleep Barnum who said theres res re's one born every minute was one himself He Ho lost a fortune on a abear's abear's abear's bears bear's grease hair tonic was swindled out of another selling illustrated il illustrated n. n bibles trimmed again on a fire her that wouldn't extinguish went Into bankruptcy for Cor half a million making alarm clocks Without Without With With- out a dime to his name he wrote a o lecture on How to Make 1 Money 1 grossing 1000 a night And that's how the famous was born Alexander Dumas one-fourth one Negro whose book The Three Musketeers was a best seller for almost years used to boast that he had more than children and swore he would never marry He changed his mind when a smart sweetheart bought up all his debts and gave him a choice between marriage and jaiL jail- He wrote novels on blue paper poetry on yellow yellow yel yel- low articles on red and nothing else would do He wrote more than 1200 volumes of plays novels and histories made over 5 million dollars and died broke living off the charity of his son Woolworth started his five five- and dime stores on a capital of and his first three failed Thirty years later he was able to pay cash for the building bearing his name then the worlds world's highest office build build- Ing George Gershwin sold his first song for 5 nine years later a Hollywood studio paid just to uce uze 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 he once rammed his nieces niece's fingers into his pipe Trying Trying- to fix himself a a. three- three minute egg he be boiled boned his watch while watching the egg When he went to fetch anything he usually came back baek without Jt it DC He was usually last In his class at school He Be was wasa a woman hater bater and never mar mar- ried sled He always claimed he solved many of his mathematical cal problems in his sleep Dr Samuel Johnson continually d distorted his face by violent grim grim- aces When walking In the street he touched every post he passed and if it he missed one he al always always al- al ways was returned He always made a point of entering or leaving a door on a certain foot flot but his biographer er Boswell wasn't sure which one Lord Byron was so emotional that once a theatrical performance put him into convulsions In a fit of temper he threw his watch Into I the fire and hammered it to pieces with the poker He also fired a pistol in the bedroom of his wife who left him after a year of mar mar- So he went to Venice and bought a harem Schiller liked to keep his feet In Ice while working He once wrote a full and perfect description of the Swiss land and people al although although although al- al though he knew neither Coleridge Coleridge Coleridge Cole Cole- ridge who wrote Kubla Khan under under under un un- un- un der the Influence of an opiate could remember only 54 lines when he sufficiently recovered to write Richelieu at times imagined himself to be a horse and neighed trotted and jumped like one Beau Brummel the fashion plate who who taught the Prince of Wales how to dress died in rags in an nn insane asylum Beethoven had a passion for moving and sometimes was payIng payIng paying pay- pay Ing rent on two or three places at once but Mozart who died at 35 starved and frozen never could pay rent on one Chopin walked out on the biggest love of his life because she didn't didn offer him a chair before beCore she offered one to others In Ln the room In his will he ordered himself buried burled In white tie dress shoes and silken knee breeches |