Did You Know…Naughty And Nice Edition Part 2

 During the 1940s, looking down a woman’s cleavage was referred to as, peering down Pennsylvania Avenue.

  Whenever the legendary comedienne George Burns stepped out with another woman, his wife, Gracie Allen, always seemed to know. He’d then, to get back into her good Gracies, buy her a pricey    piece of jewelry which seemed to do the trick since they were married for 38 years.

  The actor Keanu Reeves known for his good deeds, after meeting a hardworking man in St. Louis, Missouri struggling to feed his family, bought him his very own store.  

Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston, who was so chic and correct, is now thought of as the Jacqueline Kennedy of her time.

  Speaking of Jackie, when she was giving birth to her first child, a daughter who, alas, was stillborn she named Arabella, John Kennedy was on a pleasure cruise with some cronies as well as a few girls.

  When he received word that Jackie had lost the baby and Bobby was with her figured, there was no reason to rush home. One of his smarter pals said…Jack, if you don’t go home right now to be with your wife, you may as well kiss your political career goodbye.

  One could say, he got on the next boat.

  In his autobiography, SPARE, Prince Harry said how the palace used him, exaggerating everything he did in order to make his father and step-mother look better…like saying he went to rehab and how his father was so supportive.

  The trouble is, with the exception of touring one like his mother would have done, Harry said, he had never been in rehab.

  During the 1954 filming of Sabrina, twenty-four year old Audrey Hepburn had a mad love affair with her thirty-five year-old co-star, the very married William Holden.

 He was so serious about her that he was all set to leave his wife. When Audrey found out he had had a vasectomy, irreversible at that time, she left him; her deepest desire was to have children.

 Some say he never got over her, settling into alcoholism dying of it at sixty-three. 

 Elephants have been known to weep, and hold funerals for their loved ones.

 Frank Sinatra Jr. was named for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, not his famous father, therefore never a Jr., sadly forcing him to live his life in his dad’s overpowering shadow.

Theodore Roosevelt was the first and only U.S. President to receive the Medal of Honor in 2001 for his valor during his famous gallop up San Juan Hill on his horse, Little Texas, eighty-two years after he died.

  Little Texas is reverently buried in the pet cemetery at Sagamore Hill, the Roosevelt family home now a State Park, not far from his beloved master.

  I’ll end with an American Civil War tale I find most poignant.

  Southern General Robert E. Lee’s horse, Traveler, was almost as famous as he was. But Lee had another horse named Lucy Long that General J.E.B. Stuart, one of his favorite young men, gave him as a gift; at some point captured by the union army.

  Stuart died in 1864 at the Battle of Malvern Hill, at 31 years of age.

Lee, after the war, out of sentiment bought Lucy back at a very high price in memory, of who may have been his favorite young man, whom he called, the eyes of the army.

 SB