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Did You Know…Notes By The Bed

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   I haven’t written one of these in a while. After looking at the pad I keep near my bed, saw there were many things I found interesting enough to jot down.

  An eclectic list to be sure.

  Here goes.

 In French, epanchement de cour means, an effusion of the heart.

‘We are homesick most for the places we have never known.’ Carson McCullers

‘Absence, is the highest form of presence.’ James Joyce

In 2001, Theodore Roosevelt, for his valor charging up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, was the first President to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, 82 years after he died.

The actress Ali MacGraw’s favorite novel is The Great Gatsby. Her first husband, Robert Evans, had bought the film rights so she could play her heroine, Daisy Buchanan.

When she left him for the actor Steve McQueen while they were filming The Getaway, he then gave the part of Daisy to Mia Farrow after sending him a pressed one in the mail.

  Not only is a woman scorned, it seems.

 

Thomas Jefferson soaked his feet in ice cold water every morning.

Jim Hensen, the Muppet creator, had a cat named George Washington.

The crooner Dean Martin, as a young man boxed under the name of Kid Crochet. He also delivered bootleg liquor and worked as a speakeasy croupier and blackjack dealer.

 Dino did pretty well for himself with a net worth of 30 million dollars when he died in 1995 at 78, some say of a broken heart.

 He never got over losing his son, Dean Paul Martin Jr. who in 1987, died in a plane crash at 35.   

The popular talk show host, Merv Griffin’s tombstone at Pierce Brothers Memorial Park in Los Angeles reads…

  I Will Not Be Back After This Message. 

 Frank Sinatra’s in Palm Springs originally said

 The Best Is Yet To Come, recently replaced by his children I’m guessing after Barbara Sinatra died in 2017, no love lost between them

 Marilyn Monroe’s all time favorite candy was See’s.

 Abraham Lincoln preferring coffee or tea, never drank because he said, it left him flabby and undone.

Robin Williams was voted least likely to succeed at school.

 Most of his dialogue in the film Aladdin was ad-libbed.

And he was frequently called up by Steven Spielberg when he was filming Schindler’s List, who’d put him on speaker phone so he could tell jokes to the cast and crew to cheer them up.

In 1801, Alexander Hamilton sired The New York Evening Post so he’d have a place to publish his many fiery Op-Eds, or Polemics as they were called in his day.

 Though today, it’s nothing more than a cheap tabloid one step above The National Enquirer, now called The New York Post.

 Not unlike a cockroach you just can’t kill, it celebrated its 220th Anniversary still operating on Alex’s estimable coattails.

When the actress Sandy Dennis died in 1992 at 54 of ovarian cancer, she had twenty rescued cats, more worried about them, than for herself.

  Turns out Sandy had nothing to worry about since, all twenty were lovingly adopted.  🙂

   SB


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