The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-23
Walter WiHlcIleu
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Of a box, where the pages are bound,
Is called the gutter" -. George
Washington was q book salesman at
one time. (He managed 10 sell 200
books about IndiansD -. The av.
erage American reads six books a
year. Gle buys two, borrows two
from the public library, and
borTows two from friends--which he
never returns)
Robert Louis Stevenson's original
title for Treasure Island" was 1.-THE
Sea-Cook". (And the story wasn't
his own, but a compilation Of the
yarns his stepfather told him when
he was q kidd Aben Handel
"City for Conquest" is one Of the
first purchases made by foreigners
upon arriving In America--becallse
It's supposed TO provide better pic
ture Of New York than the observa-
ton tower OF the Empire State
building :. John B. Sanford's real
tag Is Julian Shapiro. Three years
ago, Shapiro wrote 1.-THE Wafer
Wheel" In which his hero was named
John 3. Sanford. Shapiro liked
the hero of his novel so much that
he decided 10 adopt his namel
The firm In Germany which was
to publish Rachel Lyman Fields
"All This, and Heaven Too" asked
her II they couldn't drop the "Ra-
chel" from her name for the Ger
man edition as II sounded nom
Aryan. Miss Field sent back a sizz-
ling cable telling them TO go to the
opposite OF the place named In the
titlel When the Bible Is print
cd In Braille (for the blind 1t takes
I'D "A volumes. CT costs $l36 10
print one Bible In Braille) -.
Webster's dictionary was once
banned from the State OF Arkansas,
n fundamentals stronghold, be-
cause II contained q definition Of
"evolution"l
Despite the gags about II. Joe
Miller'S Joke book Isn't the Oldest
In existence. (The oldest Is u col
lection known as "Scoggin'S Jests,"
which Is older than Joe's by more
than a century, An average
of 10000 Bibles are sold every day
Herbert Hoover and his wife
once translated q book from Latin
into English. CT was ode Re Me-
tallica."D Add picturesque re-
porting: Time, In reviewing The AL
sop-Kinter book, American White
Paper" says OF one OF the authors
"he believes that news Is what will
happen, not what has happened
The title OF John Masefield's book
"Odtaa," Is Just on abbreviation OF
the phrase, Zone damn thing after
another" When Edward EV-
erett Hale wrote "The Man With
out a Country" he could have been
sued for plagiarism by an Egyptian
mummy--because In the 40th GEN.
tury b. G, an Egyptian wrote q
story called "rhe Man without a
Country" which WAS about man
who because disguised with his
country and exiled himsef, express
INK WIZ WISH IltNVI w ilNtI Va ~
again. In the end, the guy returned
10 Egypt and exclaimed, This IL
my own, my native landl")',
Margaret Kennedy's dedication IN
"rhe Fool OF the Family" reads; "To
My Husband"
In the book trade In England, "a
publishers dozen" means 10 copies
When the first Philo Vance
mystery was published most people
believed that rs. 8. Van Dine" waa
really Pola Negri, the silent Scree,
actress Carl Sandburg, the
Lincoln biographer, buys two copies
of every book written about Lincoln
One Is for his library. and the other
he tears apart stuffing the chap
ters In The pockets Of his coat 10
read In his spare time :. Accord
Ing TO GInther's "fnside Europe,
Dictator n q naive guy. One even-
Ing ut 70 friends home, Stain was
browsing through a German pseudo
scientific picture book called "Hls-
tory of Morals. Seeing one OF the
shocking" Illustrations, he quizzed
his friends. "Tell me, Radek: Do
people really do this sort OF thing"