56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Jerry Riseley: “You just can’t hire friends and it’s about time our country is finding that out.” Marion Hamit: “I can tell anyone anything I know in thirty seconds.” Judge Gilbert: “I’m not supposed to tell you all the news—you’re supposed to guess at some of it.

* And So They Say: John Wells: “Things do phase me—but I just don’t let them bother me.” Doyle Cook: “You women with your great big purses! We men have to carry everything we own in our hip pockets.” Bill Gouldman: “My new marquee cost me so much, I can’t afford to eat anything but chicken necks.

* And So They Say: Ellen Farr: “Martin Luther King and I were in Denver at the same time, but he made the headlines and I didn’t.” Clark Stocking: “It seems mighty funny to me, but no matter how many clothes a woman has hanging in her clothes closet, she never has a thing to wear.

* And So They Say: Curley Walker when asked how his fishing was going: “I haven’t had time to fish. I had to plant my watermelons three times.” Bill Gouldman: “If you eat lots of horseradish, you’ll be healthy.” Red Hagan: “There’s nothing quite like being with a bunch of Boy Scouts for a few days.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1967 * And So They Say: Chuck Waller: “It’s awfully hard to convince the kids that it’s time to go to bed while the sun is still shining.” Linda Turnbull: “Sunday was the first time I ever went to a party empty handed and came home with a car full of loot.

* And So They Say: Dode Morrissey: “I think Loyalty Day is a good thing. This country could stand a little more loyalty.” Vivian Van Horn: “Some people are always late. They’d be late at their own funerals.” Velma Bedore: “This crazy weather—only 24 hours between the air conditioner and furnace.

* And So They Say: Ivan Combs: “I really think my dad went to Norton Sunday to stake out a claim to a good fishing place on the lake being constructed there.

* And So They Say: Irene Cabbage: “If my husband drank too much, I could send him off some place for the cure. But where can I send him when he eats too much?” Red Hagan: “As long as people are griping at me they are leaving other folks alone.

* And So They Say: Gene Miller: “I’m afraid I planted my potatoes the wrong time of the moon.” Elva Walker: “My want list is always bigger than my need list.

* And So They Say: Lee-Roy Doty: “Before I joined the Lions Club, I couldn’t stand up on my feet and say even two words to a group of people or at any kind of meeting.” Rhada Hutton: “We went fishing over the weekend, but all I caught was a cold.