In the late Seventies, former President Richard M. (Tricky Dickey) Nixon in an interview tossed out a quote that Americans were like little children and needed to be told stories. Fact checkers with access to Lexis/Nexis should be able to find the exact detail about the origin of this obscure bit of Presidential history. President Ronald Reagan was a gifted story teller and usually managed to work a folksy story about ordinary Americans into most of his Presidential speeches.
Didn't the New York Times do a trend spotting story about the resurrection of the dead art of story telling recently? Doesn't that provide conclusive proof that story telling is making a comeback?
Speaking of used cars and
We sent an e-mail about this classic example of tales from the used car trade to the tips editor at Jalopnik.
Columnist Herb Caen used the term "Little old lady" so often that he resorted to the initials "LOL" and his regular readers knew what that meant.
After Aimee Semple McPherson told an incredible tale about being kidnapped, journalists asked some skeptical questions about the details and she responded: "That's my story and I'm sticking to it."
It's been a sad week in musical history, so the disk jockey will play some songs that will always evoke American Bandstand memories for this columnist; "The stroll," Fabian's "Tiger," and Duane Eddy's "Forty Miles of Bad Road" plus "Cripple Creek Mountain." We have to go and check the Porchlight calendar for this month's story telling competition in
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