The Little Brown Book of Anecdotes Author:Clifton Fadiman (General 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 Rockefeller never go... more »t 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