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Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf comic anecdotes
A collection of light newspaper gags about stage fright miscommunications and a royal laryngitis incident. It opens with cub reporter Earl Wilson freezing at the typewriter after a city editor orders a Page One rewrite. Other bits follow stories of hurry, mistaken luggage, and King George II of Greece delivering a speech through a stand in while the author laughs at the scene.
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Earl Wilson
Middle West
Wilson
Greece
New York
King George
Willie Ethridge
Bennett Cerf
King Features Syndicate