23Aug09

Peck---"Do you think you can make a good portrait of my wife?"
Artist---"My friend, I can make it so lifelike you'll jump every time you see it."

1926, Rudolph Valention, The Sheik cinema heart-throb and tabloid fave, dies of a perforated ulcer at age 31.

1927, Immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed, In 1920, paymaster and his guard were carrying a factory payroll of $15,776. Two men standing by a fence suddenly pulled out guns and fired on them. Two Italians, N. Sacco and B.Vanzetti, fell into a police trap that had been set for a suspect in the Braintree crime, and would become one of the legendary political cases of the 20th century in the US.

Quote for the day:
Don't take too much interest in the affairs of your neighbors. Six per cent will do.