Show wawa I 1 M U F 4 snapshots of big shots this is what comes irom from reading bookil edgar allan roe foe was a dollar a year man too he spent 10 years writing and rewriting the raven and got 10 bucks for or it the original manuscript sold the last time for tor poe paid 3 a month rent tor for his honeymoon cottage on grand concourse in the bronx which Is now a new york state historical shrine if it been a grand neighborhood aorl lor dandelions he and his bride brida would have starved marconi BIar son of at an italian father and irish mother was 27 when he invented radio and even then there were people who wanted to kill him these cranks said electrical waves were passing through their bodies destroying their nerves and making it impossible tor for them to sleep barnum who said theres one born bora every minute was one himself ile he lost a fortune on a bears grease hair tonic was swindled out of another selling illustrated lust rated bibles trimmed again on a fire extinguisher her that extinguish went into bankruptcy for or half a million m making aking alarm clocks without a dime to his name he wrote a lecture on an how to blake money grossing 1000 a night and how the famous amous was born alexander dumas one fourth negro whose book the three musketeers was a best seller for almost years used to boast beast that he be 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 betwee marriage and jail J U he wrote novels on blue paper poetry on yellow articles on red and nothing else would do he wrote more than 1200 volumes of 0 plays novels end and histories made over 5 million dollars and died broke living off the charity of his son woolworth started Us big five and dime stores on a capital 0 of and his bis first three failed thirty years later he be was able to pay cash for the building bearing his name then the worlds highest office building george gershwin sold his first 50 gong ng tor for 5 nine years later a hollywood studio paid just to uze use rhapsody in blue which he wrote in his spare time in a single picture sir isaac newton was so ab sento sent minded he be once rammed his nieces feces 31 fingers into his pipe pi pe trying to fix himself a are three minute ess egg he be boiled his watch while watching the egg rhex he went to fetch anything he usually came back without it i lie ile was usually last in his class at school lie he was a woman hater and never married ne he always claimed he be gilted many many of t his mathematical aa I 1 problems in his sleep dr samuel Sa mittel johnson continually distorted his hi face by violent grimaces ac when walking in th the street he touched every post he b passed and if he missed one he always alway returned he always made a point of ct entering at r leaving a door on en a certain foot but his bis biographer boswell ure sure which one lord byron was so motional emotional that once a theatrical performance put him into convulsions in a it fit of temper he be threw his watch into the are and hammered it to pieces with the poker he also fired a pistol in the bedroom of Us his wife who left him after a year of marriage 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 although he knew neither C coleridge 0 ae who wrote kubla khan under 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 weighed neigh ed d and jumped like one beau brummel Brumm tl the fashion plate who taught the prince of wiles wales how to dress died in rags in an insane asylum beethoven had a passion for moving and sometimes was nag pay ing rent oo on two or three places at once but rt who died at 35 5 starved and frozen oever never could pay rent on one chopin walked out on the biggest love of his life because she didel offer him a chair before she offered one to others in the room in his will he ordered himself burled buried in white tie effress fess sh shoes oe a a and pd silken knee breeches |