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...postman arrives with a letter calling one's attention to the late George Ade, of Brook, Ind., 80 miles southeast of Chicago. Who? "He belongs in the historical category of Mark Twain," the letter informs, "and Will Rogers, whose philosophy was influenced by George Ade. His celebrous role deserves to be revivified." Did curiosity ever really kill a cat? To the telephone...
John R. Funk, a retired seed-corn executive and president of the George Ade Memorial Association, comes on the line with directions to the old Ade estate as if it blocks out more Indiana sky than a grain elevator. "Two miles east of Brook, on Indiana 16," he says, neglecting to say there is no interstate exit for Brook, nor for Highway 16, and not saying, too, that the signs at the town of Brook proclaim a population of 914 and a ban on peddlers and solicitors, but do not mention Ade. Found in the flesh, Funk, a courtly study...
...know whose lifetime. The manufacturer says it's guaranteed against everything but a kid with a rifle." As if on cue, a flat, thwacking sound ends his sentence. It turns out to be the slamming of a golf ball on the golf course George Ade had built next to his house. On the other side of the house is a 63-bed hospital, whose construction George Ade suggested in his will, since everybody knows the only place you can find a doctor is on a golf course...
July. 29 King Sunny Ade. 7:30 p.m. Bayside Exposition Center, Boston, Phone...
...hear about the Aggie grad who lost his job as an elevator operator? He couldn't remember the route.) But this is no joke: workmen plan to complete a $723,000 restoration of the campus' Academic Building by smearing fermented cow manure across its brick façade...