The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-06

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 Barnum, who said there's one born every minute" was one him. self. He lost 8 fortune on bears | grease hair tonic, was Swindled out | of another selling illustrated bibles | trimmed again on fire extinguish- | CT that wouldn't extinguish, went | into bankruptcy for half a million | making alarm clocks Without dime to his name he wrote a lec- ture on How to Make Money" crossing $l,00O 6 night And that's how the famous Barnumism was born.
 Danny Kaye, wonder man of 1945, unknown beyond Broadway little more than a year ago. now gets $l50,000 a picture from Samuel Goldwyn (who introduced him to the screen with Up in Arms") and has his own radio show at $l6.0O0 week. Tn his new picture, Won der Man." he talks Chinese, sings in Russian, French, Italian and double talk, dances BalineSe in jive-time, writes with both hands simultaneously and plays twins of opposite temperaments.
 Woolworth started his five-and- dime stores on capital of $30O and his first three failed Thirty years later he was able to pay $l4,- 900, 900 cash for the building bear ing his name, then the worlds high est office building.
 Brigham Young, ate at the same table every day with but one of his 27 wives - and they all had to get down on their knees together and pray for him every night. The holdout 27th, Amelia, demanded her own house and got 1t, 8 Utah show place-a private table, and got 1t, and when the other wives were munching salt pork she got prairie chicken Brig was 6l, she was 25, I and you guessed it-she was a blonde.
 George Gershwin sold his first song for $5; nine years later a Hollywood studio paid $50,000 just to use Rhapsody in Blue" which he wrote in his spare time, in a | single picture.
 Sir Isaac Newton was so absent minded he once rammed his niece's fingers into his pipe Trying to fix himself three-minute egg, he boiled his watch wLile watching the | egg |. . He was usually last in his | class at school . He was a Wo- man hater and never married. He always claimed he solved many | of his mathematical problems in his sleep.
 Chopin walked out on the biggest love of his life because she didn't offer him a chair before she offered one to others in the room In his will be ordered himself buried in white tie, dress shoes and silken knee brooches.
 Dr. Samuel Johnson continually | distorted his face by violent grim NNCo VVAlC1l WdlhLA6 III LIlC CJI CCt he touched every post he passed and if he missed one he always re- turned. He always made a point of entering or leaving a door on a ] certain foot, but his biographer, Boswell, wasn't sure which one.
 Beethoven had passion for nov ing and sometimes was paying rent on two or three places at once, but Mozart, who died at 35, starved and frozen, never could pay rent on one.
 Einstein was a backward child who found it difficult to talk . His teachers called him bore, and even his parents feared he was sub normal |. Once in Berlin, after he became famous as a mathematician, he had an argument with street car conductor about his change The man re-counted it, handed it back and said: The trouble with you is you don't know how to fig ure"
 Lord Byron was so emotional that once a theatrical performance put him into convulsions .. In fit of |, temper he threw his watch into the fire and hammered 1t to pieces with | the poker He also fired pistol | in the bedroom of 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 ] full and perfect description of the Swiss land and people-although he knew neither Coleridge, who | wrote "Kubla Khan" under the in- fluence of an opiate, could remem- Der only 54 lines when he sufficient ly recovered to write Dant0 | wrote his first sonnet to Beatrice at | the age of g Richelieu at times | imagined himselft to be horse and | neighed, trotted and jumped like one Beau Brummel. the fashion plate (who taught the Prince ot Wales how to dress), died in rags in an insane asylum.
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