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Show Judy Canova, N'BC star: "It hurts me to repeat it, but I think it's the corniest sag I've ' ANSWER ME THIS! QUESTION What do you consider the corniest corn-iest joke you've ever heard? PLACE NBC Studios, New York and Hollywood Senator Ford, of NBC's "Can You Top This?": "Offhand, I would choose the one about the goof ever heard, so here goes: 'Knock, knock.' 'Who's there?' 'Atch.' "Atch who?' 'Gesund-heldt!' 'Gesund-heldt!' If that isn't bad enough, there's the one Joe Laurie tells about the Irish schoolmaster who was asked what was meant who was writing writ-ing a letter in a large hand a very large hand, very big. A friend of his happened by, saw him sweating sweat-ing over his letter, let-ter, and asked him whv he was by the word 'fortification.' In- Judv Canova stantly, with the utmost confidence, he answered, 'Two twentifications make a fortification.'" Bob Burns, NBC star: "I've heard a lot of them an awful lot but the nnp 1 like. writing in such script. 'Because,' Senator Ford answered the dope, 'I am writing to an uncle of mine who Is hard of hearing.' " Bob Hope, NBC star: "How can anyone better this old standby? ' V - f even though it's corny, is this one, which I've used over and over. This is how it goes: 'Why did you leave Arkansas, Bob?' 'Well,' I say, without the slightest hesitation, hesita-tion, 'I guess it was just because I couldn't take uo you Know why they buried my uncle on the crest of a hill?' 'No, why?' 'Because 'Be-cause he was dead.' If you'd like another, here it is. It was joe Miller who once, when asked whether a certain doe-skin it with me.' And Bob Burns that frlendSi ig tall corn from a guy who comes from the corn country." coat it happen-Bob happen-Bob Hope ed t0 be a rather moth-eaten number would withstand rain, said: 'Madame, have you ever seen a doe with an umbrella?'" and night in a small Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania town. It is the story of a young actress born in the town and of the devotion of a press agent to her; of how she changed the hearts of the people peo-ple of her home town and en riched their lives. This book is really worthy of being in the best-seller class. "Country Heart," Isabel Dick, is the story of Charlotte Acton Books to Be Released Monday, Nov. 4 Books about the war are still arriving and one of the latest 1946 books and a best seller is Ralph Ingersoll's "Top Secret," the uncensored, inside story of how the generals planned and ran the invasion of Europe and the battle of Germany. "The Roots of American Loyalty" Loy-alty" by Merle Curti is the first study to describe and explain what patriotism has meant to Americans, and to analyze its elements to show what it has in common with other countries, and how it is unique. Can you imagine how wood can become safety glass or cellophane; cel-lophane; how coal can develop into electrical material; how soybeans soy-beans sprout automobiles or how cottage cheese can be knitted knit-ted into a sweater? Bernard Wolfe in his book "Plastics" tells how these things can be done, and many more things like them. Fiction "Miracle of the Bells," by Russell Rus-sell Janney (who will be in Salt Lake next Monday) is a joyous novel about the four days when church bells ran day who lived with her father and mother in Tasmania and who went to live with her husband in South Africa and back to her loved country, Tasmania. "Fortress Within," by Sylvia HoLcomb, is the story of the people peo-ple of a small town, and especially especi-ally the love story of Andrea Parrish. Plumor and pathos mingle in the story of old Ned McDermott who cared for and educated his grandson, Willie, in an Irish-American community. commun-ity. It wan't until he had grown tip that Willie discovered his grandfather's d e c e p tion through the years that the reason rea-son for his grandfather telling him Celtic folktales instead of reading him the funnies was because be-cause the old man could neither read nor write. The book is 'Our Own Kind," by Edward McSorley. AVestern "Showdown Guns," Stanley. . "Long Loop Raiders," West-land. West-land. "Bonanza at Wishbone," Flor-en. Flor-en. Mystery "Kill Him Tonight," Lane. The Sprague branch library is one of the three branches of the Salt Lake Free Public library. li-brary. This branch was opened in 1914 in the building at 1065 E. 21st S., now occupied by the First National bank of Sugar House. Mrs. Robert Forrester, now retired, was the first librarian. li-brarian. Then in 1928, the present home of the Sprague library li-brary was built, while Mrs. El-eanor El-eanor C. Bartlett was librarian. The branch was named for Miss Joanna H. Sprague, who for many years served as librarian of the Salt Lake library. Mrs. Sprague retired several years ago, but still ilves in the Belvedere Bel-vedere apartments. Books to Circulate Monday, Oct. 28 Easy Books "Kwik and Kwak," Oscar Fa-bres. Fa-bres. "When the Root Children Wake Up," Helen Dean Fish. Fairy Tales "Fairy Tales From Hans Christian Andersen," Andersen. "Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs," Sharon Stearns. Readers "Jerry," Florence Battle. 'Friends and neighbors,' William S. Gray. "I Know a Secret," j Gertrude Hildreth. Non-Fiction '"The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat," Eugene Field. "A Boy's Treasure of Things-te-Do." Caroline Horowitz. "Book of Original Plays," Gardner and Arnaud. "Flights to Glory," John Purcell. Fiction "The Scrapper," Leland Silli-man. Silli-man. "The Sea Cats," Alice Curtis Desmond. "Green Jade for Laughter," Maurene Cheno-weth. |