[78-L] Coolidge

[Banjo Bud]

When the great wit, Dorothy Parker, was told of President Coolidge's demise, 
she reportedly asserted, "How can you tell?"

Bud

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From: "David Sanderson" <dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 9:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Coolidge

> On 3/8/2010 5:13 PM, Tom wrote:
>> The story I'd heard was that Mrs. Coolidge had one of her lady
>> friends over for lunch one day, and the friend said to President
>> Coolidge, "I bet Mrs. Coolidge that I could get you to say three
>> words at lunch today."
>>
>> President Coolidge replied, "You lose."
>
> Notwithstanding his reputation for dourness, Coolidge seems to have had
> the Yankee instinct for humor.  I have an unlikely object, a Calvin
> Coolidge calendar for 1933, which has for each month a humorous Coolidge
> anecdote, including a version of the story above.  I think that he never
> got to record this material, which would have been a lot of fun.
>
> Just for good measure, the 78 rpm musical connection with Coolidge is
> via his uncle, John Wilder, a fiddler who recorded a few sides and was
> briefly notable in about 1926.
>
> -- 
> David Sanderson
> East Waterford Maine
> dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com
> http://www.dwsanderson.com
>
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