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...readily handled by thumbing through a standard reference book. The remaining, tougher 60% are forwarded to The Answer Man's Manhattan headquarters, appropriately located across the street from New York City's 5,000,000-volume Public Library, to be solved by 50-year-old Producer Bruce Chapman, his 40-man staff and a postal panel of 20,000 obliging experts...
Floating Beer Keg. Chapman divides the questions that bother Americans into
Some puzzlers can be answered only by experiment. Golfer Sam Snead obligingly proved that it is possible to drive a golf ball through a Providence-Pawtucket telephone book. An entomologist held a stop watch on a parasol ant, reported its rate of travel as 720 ft. an hour. Chapman, asked whether a wooden keg full of beer would float in sea water, dropped one into New York Harbor, found that it did -just barely...
...snake, which supposedly eats its young. Another bump of curiosity is excited by the Old Testament. Questioners want to know if Adam was divorced (from Lilith, according to Jewish folklore); whom Cain married (possibly his sister Awan); who was Noah's wife (probably Naamah). For no reason that Chapman and his associates can figure out, the most recurrent question is: "Do Indians have beards...
...American public does not take the arts seriously enough, Chapman said and added, "We don't budge out of our cozy chairs into the rain to see a play--we don't stir out of our complacency...