Show little known stories storie about well known peoples people the current march of 0 dimes campaign recalls a delightful story about a grand lady A new york merchant once approached adra mother at a banquet and offered to contribute to the warm springs foundation if the she would pose tor for a P picture 1 chure with his mother sarah ilaise roosevelt velt ri replied PU ed she would be willing to pose even if he contribute any lioney the merchant then said he we would uld give 1000 and now he added ill alrin bring my mother over here she li is 62 92 and this will be the biggest thrill in her life in that case said the 84 ye year ar old mrs roosevelt ill go to her im younger while working as an editor tor for several leading magazines theodore theodate dreiser wrote a fabulous amount of wonderful short stories orlea st poems plays essays social ocial studies and novels including his most famous work an am american er tragedy in 27 he visited the soviet union as a guest of the government when he stopped in england on his way back mr churchill asked him well what do you think of russia 1 I told him dreiser said to bob van gelder that I 1 thought it was a wonderful country a wonderful system nonsense churchill said ald 1 I it t wont last seven years decades ago clarence darrow the famed lawyer was the principal speaker at a womans comans club after his address he found himself in conversation with a few ladles ladies who insisted on discussing birth control mr darrow said one what do you think of birth control tor for the masses 7 my dear lady replied the is famous man whenever I 1 hear people discussing birth control I 1 always remember that I 1 was the fifth the late george norris made a speech in which he pointed out that man kinds and mechanical progress prevented the barbarism of war we have wars 1 1 said norris because the human race has learned how to improve everything except people neatest comment on ers outline of demobilization plans came from one of the boys on the GI liberation committee in paris gen ike had toll told congress when you see firemen claying laying checkers in the fl you dont send them home because theres nothing to do and its 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 11 debbe so said the soldier been told five times of a sailing date only to have it changed but even a fireman gets disgusted when there are nothing but false al alarms armst 1 this is a mark twain tale we come across before when mark was at the height of his career he informed a friend frien d it took me ten years to disc discover that I 1 had no talent tor for writing and you gave it up oh nol no by that time I 1 was too famous As aa long as were on puns amu adds frank cases son carroll the winnet winner and still champion is old samuel johnson who was approached hed by it a would be wit in the me mermaid me id tavern the algonquin of it its da day the ahe wag said eald now admit it sam I 1 the only reason you dont like puns is if that at you cant make them to which johnson punned gunned sir if I 1 were punished pun d tor for every pun I 1 shed id have no puny shed hed in which to rest this punish head that reminds us of our pet purl pun A pun someone said Is the lowest form of wit pun my soul it ill quotation marksmanship dorothy dix alx drying a widows tears Is if one of the most dangerous occupations known to man geo S perry tugboats Tug boats shooting the air full of sharp white toots paul ernst looking crisp and cool as though the she had slept on mint leaves F E jones impatient soldiers rs overseas waiting tor for Return ity ben grauer he rode to th the bottom on one way pawn tickets jack marshall ties iles a patriot with the accent on the riot thoreau I 1 W would 0 uld not talk so much about myself elf if there were anybody else whom I 1 knew so well laroche foucault foucauld tou fou in their first passion women love their lovers in all others othern they love love when churchill de barked from the queen elizabeth in N Y recently a reporter asked why he going to defend british policy in pa palestine it at the gardens that mat we may live rally im only going to vaca vacation tion here two months he replied the reporter ob observed that most U S politicos are lucky to vacation one month Clur churchill chill bit into his cigar and quipped it I 1 were a politician id still be prime manip ter |