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Show Ll"le 'People: About Well A of Dlmes cam. The current w deightful story paign recaUs a New York about .a grand iaJ hed FDR's merchant . PP and offered t0 mother at W m Springs contribute $500 M e pQSe for a Foundation if mQther Sarah plCtUre ,rJeriled he would be will-Roosevelt will-Roosevelt replied dJdn,t on. ing to pose even mgr tribute any give $1,000. chant then said he w ''ir; over here. She is bring my mother o biggest thriU 92, and thiS(will be the Digs tai.!!ertirt'ease " 84'yeal" "In that case- ,.vn g0 t0 her old Mrs. Roosevelt, I u S I'm younger." 1 1 m an editor for While working as a" 1 leading magazines, Theo-Zt Theo-Zt Drd "e wrote a fabulous nt of wonderful wordage-amount wordage-amount of woim . ,saVg Soe Union a guest of the JveZent. When he stopped in Fneland on his way back, Mr. Church asked him, "Well, what do you think of Russia?" 7 "I told him," Dreiser said to Bob van Gelder), "that I thought it was a wonderful country, a wonderful "Nonsense." ChurchiH said, "it won't last seven years." Decades ago, Clarence Darrow the famed lawyer, was the principal speaker at a woman's club. After his address he found himself in conversation con-versation with a few ladies who insisted in-sisted on discussing birth control. "Mr. Darrow," said one, "what do you think of birth control for the masses?" "My dear lady," replied the famous fa-mous man, "whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was the fifth." The late George Norris made a speech in which he pointed out that mankind's scientific and mechanical progress hasn't prevented the barbarism bar-barism of war "We have wars," said Norris, "because the human race has learned how to improve everything except people." Neatest comment on Eisenhower's Eisenhow-er's outline of demobilization plans came from one of the boys on the GI Liberation Committee in Paris. Gen. Ike had told Congress: "When you see firemen playing checkers in the firehouse you, don't send them home because there's nothing to do. And It's the same in Germany. The soldiers may be sitting around with nothing to do or so they think. But their presence there is very necessary." neces-sary." "Mebbe so," said the soldier (who'd been told five times of a sailing sail-ing date, only to have it changed), "but even a fireman gets disgustedwhen disgust-edwhen there are nothing but false alarms!" This is a Mark Twain tale we haven't come across before. When Mark was at the height of his career he informed a friend: "It took me ten years to discover that I had no talent for writing." "And you gave it up?" "Oh, nol By that time I was too famous!" vl'Jtl !?D " We're on puns" adds Frank Case's son, Carroll, "the winner win-ner and still champion Is old Sam-bv Sam-bv , taS: Wh Was bached Tave0 b!,W" ta me Mermaid Tavern (the Algonquin of its day) The wag said: 'Now admit it, Sam fte only reason you don't Uke puns is that you can't make them.' To which Johnson punned: "Sir" 'if I Idharn1" rest th., Ty Shed whh to rest this punish head That reminds us of our pet pun. heioweVto?0"' !8ld- "1S it is!" pun my 'i0nDrya-h,p: "ore-'neoJthe "ore-'neoJthe mo.lV W'S teBrs tions kow;rtmd.ann8erOUCCUpS- Ernst: Lookine "C i''S' F'u' tm on onewav Vde, t0 the bot" JkMarshaU yHT' "cent on the H0?"PatTr,,0twltb 1 would not talk n ' : ' Thoret": se there Vere U.Ch Ul m wom I knew so well else foucauld- -Tn . ' LnRoche-women LnRoche-women love their lT passin er they love We fa aU rently a rePorfP Znbr,h N. Y. wasn't going T, askcd hy he 'Cy h, Palest" dfd British pol. |