Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2 From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: true headlines Message-ID: <615@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 09:44:22 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.615 Posted: Wed Feb 8 09:44:22 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 02:02:57 EST References: <595@ihuxq.UUCP> <2486@rabbit.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 24 Another true headline was in the New York Herald Tribune in the early '60s when Sam Rayburn, who had been Speaker of the House of Representatives, died: A GRATEFUL NATION BURIES SAM RAYBURN (Reminds me of a poem by Hilaire Belloc: Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his aquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged. Or, as Mark Twain said about Cecil Rhodes: "I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake." John Hobson AT&T Bell Labs Naperville, IL (312) 979-0193 ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2