If You Enjoy Living Be Like a Tortoise
A collection of humorous remarks and trivia touching on science history and culture. Notable lines reference Bette Davis Sid Caesar John Barrymore Oscar Homolka and H. L. Mencken. Includes turtle longevity facts and a joke about tortoises versus beavers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Heaven
Milky Way
Bette Davis
Sid Caesar
John Barrymore
Walter Winchell
Zoo
Abraham Lincoln
Community notices and meetings in Altoona area
Altoona reports a Wilson County Welfare Board meeting in Benedict with mental health discussion and a 6:30 p.m. turkey dinner. Various residents attend church, visits and hospital stays noted, plus a Quonset storage building near the grain elevator. Midshipman Stevens returns to Annapolis, new pastor arrives, and local clubs share activities and travel news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altoona
Royle Stafford
Wilson County Welfare Board
Benedict
William Hansen
Sherry Cranor
Phillips University
Enid
Okla
Just-A-Mere
Aliie Harbert
May
Grace Caffee
Don Bolander
Caldwell
Glenn Jones
Neodesha
Clifford Ell Hott
Kansas City
Stella Kelly
Janice Cranor
Herbert Elliott
Marvin de Bolt
Earnest Scott
Halstead
Scott
Gene Beaty
Wilson County Hospital
Lions Club
Virgil Clifton
Roy Harkrader, Jr
Cleo Devins
Fredonia
Altoona High School
Sweet Town Gems Hdu
C. W. Troutman
Floyd Troutman
Ed Miller
el Campo
Texas
Forest Foster
Harley
Dick) Gentry
Morris Forsythe
Michael
Harold Pyle
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kovacs
C. P. Gable
Ernie Kovacs
Beverly Hills
H. L. Mencken
Aroma
Signa of
Kin Hubbard
Oscar Homolka
Vernon Smith
Danny
Randy
Waterloo
H. O
George
August Lyell
Fame
Harold Gibson
Granada
Irish West Indies
The
Hol
the Tribune
Caldwell & Son
Santa Fe
Harold
Humboldt
Mrs. Dresser
Sealy
Philco-Ford
Philco
Ford
Ical
Econom
Terror
Harold’s Philco-Ford Discount House
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