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Each month the research librarians answer about 5,000 requests for facts and background material. Some of them are one-of-a-kinds: How much does the U.S. budget weigh? What is a sneeze? Was Julius Caesar a good swimmer? Did Shakespeare wear a nightgown? How much money was bet at U.S. race tracks on Memorial...
...Martin Block's Make-Believe Ballroom, on which Disc Jockey Block presents new records, plays request numbers. Typical recent request from "Alex," a listener in Switzerland: play some bop. Block's grave answer: "Alex, did you know that bop is on its way out? . . .Did you know that Dizzy Gillespie has given up bop?" Block then played one of Gillespie's post-bop numbers entitled You Stole My Wife-You Horse Thief...
Italians asked what the U.S. was going to do about this. The answer, though gently phrased, seemed to be "Nothing." All Italy promptly broke into an uproar, and the prestige of Premier Alcide de Gasperi's government took a nose dive...
During a speech in bone-dry Oklahoma, Vice President Alben Berkley paused, eyed a glass of water skeptically, then handed it back with a firm but courteous answer: "I appreciate that very much, but I'm from Kentucky...
...studio audiences, his scouts are out beating the bushes for people with strange jobs and enough gabbiness to heighten Marx's verbal asides. He is often topped, as he was when he asked an elderly woman what people were wearing when she was a baby. Her answer: "Diapers." And he was almost speechless for once when a burlesque-show employee identified a stripteaser as "an anatomy award winner...