All these obtained from Reader's Digest, yup, my favorite pocket-sized magazine.
#1 ~Martin Dickstein, May 1950~
An old lady, who is assistant wardrobe mistress of a current musical comedy, came into the Hotel Astor branch of a brokerage firm to invest her savings. She placed an order of 100 shares of South Pacific, which she got at $35 a share. I was in the office some months later when she came in to get her cheque for a nice profit of $1800.
"You've got to have real inside information to make money on the stock exchange," she said with a wink.
The broker hasn't yet had the heart to tell her that the South Pacific she bought was a railroad, not a musical comedy.
#2 ~March 1952~
Agatha Christie, the detetive-story writer, lives most of the time in Baghdad, where her archaeologist husband is working on important excavations.
"An archaeologist," she says with conviction, "is the best husband any woman can have. The older she gets, the more he is interested in her."
#3 ~November 1952~
Toyshop salesman: "It's an educational toy designed to adjust a child to live in the world of today... any way he puts it together is wrong."
#4 ~E.E.Kenyon, November 1955~
The hatbox in her hand drew a long dark look from her husband. "Darling," she hurriedly explained, "I was down in the dumps today, so I bought myself a new hat."
"Oh" he growled. "So that's where you get them."
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