Tidbits Grand Forks - June 23, 2016

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IRONY (continued): • In 1964 a casting director was looking for a man to portray the president in a film called “The Best Man.” Someone suggested Ronald Reagan be offered the part, but the director said… …“Reagan doesn't have the presidential look.” • The manager of a movie theater in South Korea decided that the running time of “The Sound of Music” was too long. He cut it down… …by editing out all the songs. • 5,000 copies of John Steinbeck's book “The Wayward Bus” were in a truck traveling from the bindery when there was a traffic accident. The truck was wrecked and all 5,000 copies of the book burned in the resulting fire. The cause of the accident was… …a bus — a wayward bus — that had been traveling down the wrong side of the road. • Albert J . Lowry, author of “How To Become Financially Independent by Investing in Real Estate” and other best-selling books on how to get rich… …filed for bankruptcy under Chapter VII of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

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• Horatio Alger, famous for his rags-to-riches stories… …died penniless. • The address where Mrs. O'Leary's cow presumably kicked over a lantern, starting the Chicago fire in 1871… …is now the address of the Chicago Fire Academy. • The first time the Harlem Globetrotters ever actually played a game in Harlem was in 1968… …after they'd been in existence for over 40 years.


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