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ADVERTISING
----------------------------------------The editor of the local paper was unable to secure advertising from one of the business men of the town, who asserted stoutly that he himself never read ads., and didn't believe anyone else did. "Will you advertise if I can convince you that folks read the ads.?" the editor asked. "If you can show me!" was the sarcastic answer. "But you can't." In the next issue of the paper, the editor ran a line of small type in an obscure corner. It read: "What is Jenkins going to do about it?" The business man, Jenkins, hastened to seek out the editor next day. He admitted that he was being pestered out of his wits by the curious. He agreed to stand by the editor's explanation in the forthcoming issue, and this was: "Jenkins is going to advertise, of course." Having once advertised, Jenkins advertises still. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jun 11, 2007 8:05:06 PM] |
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Isabella Stewart of New York never thought much about ancestry until she married into the Gardner family of Boston. In Boston, she endured a good deal of fairly dull conversation on the subject, so, eventually, she had her Stewart descent traced directly back - all the way to King Fergus I of Scotland, a contemporary of Alexander the Great!
"After having the Stewart lineage engrossed and illuminated in colors on a long scroll, Isabella Stewart Gardner was in a position to make one of her famous, much-quoted remarks. She had listened to a monologue by a Boston dowager concerning that lady's American Revolutionary ancestry. 'Ah yes,' said Isabella. 'They were much less careful about immigration in those days, I believe.'" |
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Back in the 1930s and 1940s, Sid Luckman was the famed quarterback of the Chicago Bears. His father, an immigrant tailor, did not get many chances to see his son play. Luckman made sure they were there for one important game against the New York Giants. The game was going well. Then, in one play, Luckman got the ball just as his teammates were falling by the wayside. Luckman was left alone to fight off the opposing teams' huge linemen. As he dodged huge bodies hurtling towards him, he heard his father's anxious voice above the crowd yelling, "Sidney, let them have the ball. I'll buy you another one."
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In the late thirties, Sir Thomas Beecham conducted the Halle Ochestra in Manchester, and one evening he repaired to the Midland Hotel, where he was staying. In the foyer there was a young lady whose face seemed familiar, and who seemed to know him. He engaged in conversation with her and tried to remember who she was, asking about her family, and, suddenly remembering that she had a brother whom he felt he knew, started asking questions about his welfare, ending with "What is he doing these days?" The lady replied, "Oh, he is still the King." She was the Princess Royal, sister of George VI.
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The production of forged Picassos naturally grew apace with the artist's acclaim. One needy artist, having acquired a supposed Picasso, had a friend show it to the master for authentication so that he could sell it. "A fake," Picasso declared.
Shorlty thereafter, the friend acquired two more alleged Picassos. When Picasso announced that these were forgeries as well, the man was utterly incredulous. "I saw you paint this last one with my own eyes!" he cried. Picasso's reply? "I can paint fake Picassos as well as anyone!" |
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Thomas Mann was introduced to an American writer of some note who abased himself before the famous novelist, saying that he scarcely considered himself to be a writer in comparison with Mann. Mann answered him civilly, but afterward he remarked, "He has no right to make himself so small. He's not that big."
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"I've heard your work," Daniel-Francois Auber once told his fellow composer Georges Bizet. "It's very good." "I accept your praise," Bizet replied, "but do not reciprocate it." Auber, not surprisingly, grimaced and Bizet explained: "A private soldier may receive the praises of a marshal of France. He does not return them."
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When the opera The Wreckers was first staged in 1909, influential friends of the composer, Dame Ethel Smyth, invited Edward VII to attend the opening night. The conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, later asked the king's private secretary, who had accompanied him to the opera, what the king had thought of the experience. "I don't know," the man replied. "Didn't he say anything?" Beecham asked. "Well, yes," the secretary admitted. "He did say something. He suddenly woke up three-quarters of the way through and said, 'Fritz, that's the fourth time that infernal noise has roused me!'"
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Albert Einstein was visited one day by one of his students. "The questions on this year's exam are the same as last year's!" the young man exclaimed. "Yes," Einstein replied, "but this year all the answers are different."
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Congressman Jack Brady was once reproached by a young woman for smoking on an elevator in the Rayburn building in Washington. "Young lady," he gravely replied, "I am not smoking this cigar. I am transporting it to the next floor."
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