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Butch Furse
Over the years I raised a few eyebrows when in a conversation about someone asking where I was born. My answer, “In a hotel” generally left a puzzled look on the face of the listener as he/she hesitated to pursue anymore questioning. I proceeded explaining my parents rented one of the two ground-floor apartments that were in the small hotel in the rural Kansas community where they also operated a weekly newspaper.
While cleaning off my desk I came across newspaper clipping of a several decade’s ago interview with Prime Minister Winston Churchill where he undoubtedly raised a few eyebrows when he told he was born in the ladies’ room during a dance. No more details were given, but it’s nice to know that “Winston is one up on my experience.”
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A reporter faced a problem after an interview and the story went into print. As told to the reporter “The happy couple will make their home at the old Manse.” As printed in the newspaper “The happy couple will make their home at the old man’s.”
Unfortunately, the newspaper may be closer to correct.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of advice.
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A point in history: At one time during the American Civil War, Gen. George B. McClellan, then in command of the Union forces, was conducting a waiting campaign. He was so careful to avoid mistakes that little headway was evident. President Lincoln thereupon wrote him a letter:
“My dear McClellan: If you don’t want to use the Army, I should like to borrow it for a while, Yours respectfully, A Lincoln.”
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For those of you who see the car gas tank go emptier faster and more expensive to fill, here’s a fact that was reported years ago. “The cruise lime QEZ moved only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burned
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A medical journal advances the theory that “man is slightly taller in the morning than he is in the evening.” We have never tested this, but we have certainly noticed to we become “short” toward the end of the month.
RL Furse is publisher emeritus of the News-Register
