Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-04-06
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Little Knopn Stories
about WelI-Kno,Un People:
His contemporaries thought Ted
dy Roosevelt was conceited. They
told this one on him. That Teddy
died and went to heaven where he
discovered the famed choir had been
disbanded. He told St. Peter it
should be reorganized and that he,
Teddy, would conduct.
Every WE'LL" said The Old Fellow.
''How many tenors should we have?"
Teddy suggested ten million ten
ors, as many baritones, etc.
"How many bass singers?" asked
st. Peter, pencil poised.
"Oh," said Teddy, "I'll sing bass"
FDR's guessing at the former
Czarist Palace in Yalta brings to
mind the yarn told about Teddy
Roosevelt's world tour. :. While in
Stockholm he lived at the royal pal
ace. When "Mr. Big-Stick" was
asked by a newsman how he liked
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Teddy snapped: II don't like them.
You can't ring bell and complain
about the room!"
One of the staff offered his res
ignation to the executive editor
of the old New York World. He
explained that he was going to
start his own little country news
paper. "Pd like some advice
from you," said the reporter,
ION how you think l ought to run
it,"
you've come to the wrong
person." said the exec. "Ask
one of our indignant subscrib-
erS."
When President Roosevelt was
Governor of New York film sales
man named Moe Schenck Che
worked out of Albany was intro
duced to him. . The other day
Moe was in the White House to see
one of the secretaries about film.
AS he came out of the office
FDR came along.
WELL" weld Mr.. Roosevelt.
"How are you, Moe, you old sunuva-
gun-what are you doing in Wash
ington?"
Moe explained his mission briefly
and started to go. FDR said: Good
luck, Moe. Don't be such strang-
er. Come see me sometime"
"Mr. President" Moe intoned,
"I'm a very busy man."
At social event which Thorn
as Edison attended reluctantly
at his wife's urging-the inven-
tor finally escaped his admir-
ers to sit in corner. A friend
noticed that he kept looking at
his watch and, drawing closer,
he heard Edison sigh deeply and
murmur: "If there were only
dog here"
The home of Beethoven in Bonn
has been converted into a memorial
museum. In one of the rooms, roped
off from curious hands, is the piano
upon which Beethoven composed
most of his famous music. A very
snooty girl visited the shrine with
party of American tourists. She
looked at the piano with awe and
asked the guard if she might play
just few notes on it. She sat down
and played few bars of the Moon
light Sonata. AS she left she re-
marked to the attendant: 81 sup
pose all the great pianists who have
come here at one time or another
nave played on it."
The guard replied: mo, miss, not
at all. Paderewski was here sew
eral years ago, but said he wasn't
worthy to touch it."
At dinner party Bea Lille Nady
Peel II private life) was wearing the
family pearls. A feline meowed:
What lovely pearls, Bea. Are they
genuine? OF course, you can always
tell by biting them. Here, let me
see."
"Gladly," said Lady Peel, prof.
tering her jewels. But remember,
Duchess, you can't tell real pearls
with false teeth"
One of the important Washing
ton newspapers once reported
(on its front page) a mild in
disposition of President Roose-
welt with: president Kept
to His Rooms by Coed"
FDR heard of it and requested
several copies, which he shows
to visiting diplomatic bigwigs in
their moments of relaxation.
This is how one of the worlds clas-
sizes was written: Nathaniel Haw-
thorne worked as bookkeeper One
day he was fired and came home
depressed. But his wife wasn't. She