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Show TODAY IN HISTORi SLIGHTLY JAZZED o This is the onnlversay of tho death of Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, the man who made the English language do more tricks than any successor or predecessor. Mrs. 1 Sbakespearo died on August 6. 1623, (oi 297 years ago today. What a trial it must have been to (live with such a colossal genius as William, who never would remember to put on his rubbers (or whatever they wore for rubbers In KOOj and' who could not be depended on to ro-! member to wind the clock und put out i the cat at bedtime! Then, too. It seems I that Bill did not appreciate his wife any too much. At any rate in his will he left her his "second best bed. with tho furniture.'" and nothing more. |