The Little Brown Book of Anecdotes Author:Clifton Fadiman (Editor) "an-ec-dote\'an-ik-dot\: — a usu. short narative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident" — YOU WILL DISCOVER THESE BIOGRAPHICAL INCIDENTS: — --Why Augustus despaired of his daughter Julia — --How Charlemagne invented white wine — --Why Hideyoshi gave up on Buddha — --What Clara Barton distinctly remembered to forget — --Why John Rockefell... more »er never got his nickel back from a pay phone
--What King Faisal wore under his robes
YOU WILL FIND THEM INTERESTING:
--What Ferenc Molnar said when he saw his first rush hour
AND AMUSING;
--What happened at a performance of George Antheils's Ballet Mecanique
MOVING:
Charles de Gaulle's ovservation on the death of his daughter
USEFUL:
How Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree introduced two friends whose names had escaped him
RIDICULOUS:
Yogi Berra's reaction to a check made out to "Bearer"
AND EVEN RIBALD:
Calvin Coolidge's interest in the mating habits of roosters« less