Quips George Bernard Shaw had written a new play, and sent Winston Churchill two tickets to the opening night performance, along with a note reading, 'Here are two tickets to my new play. Bring a friend, if you have one.' Churchill replied immediately: 'Sorry, but I can't make it to the opening night performance. Please send me tickets to the second performance, if there is one.' http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=101;t=000069;p=0

The story of The Saturday Evening Post begins with Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette, first published in 1728, and became known as The Saturday Evening Post in 1821. Initially it was four-page newspaper with no illustrations that daringly tackled political controversy. The modern era of The Saturday Evening Post began in 1897 when famed magazine publisher, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, purchased the magazine for one thousand dollars. Curtis, who also founded The Ladies Home Journal, was well aware of the distinguished legacy of the publication.. Under the leadership of editor George Horace Latimer, The Saturday Evening Post became the first magazine ever to reach 1,000,000 copies sold. http://saturdayeveningpost.com/About-The-Saturday-Evening-Post.html

Who did magazine covers for one magazine from 1916-1963? See answer at following Web link: http://community.livejournal.com/jou55online/3005.html
What’s on your reading list? Recently we heard about a group of law profs at the University of Chicago who are sharing their reading recommendations, just in time for the holidays. And in the December issue of the ABA Journal, ABA President Tommy Wells shared a couple of books he likes to read and gift (no surprise that they're published by the ABA). Personally, we can't wait for the late January release of John Grisham's new book, The Associate. http://www.abajournal.com/news/whats_on_your_reading_list/
Quote “It is one thing to look but quite another to see.”
Cartoonist Milton Caniff, who published his first cartoon in Dayton Journal at age 14

In Ohio, librarian Mary Ellen Armentrout researched the status of Ohio's 115 Carnegie libraries. She gathered photographs of each structure for a self-published book. Armentrout hopes to create an exhibition that would travel to each of the Carnegie buildings over a four-year period. "The Carnegie buildings were very well built, and even though they're approaching 100 years, they've weathered beautifully," Armentrout says. "Without the Carnegies, we wouldn't have the strong public library system we have today." http://www2.preservationnation.org/Magazine/archives/arch_story/040105.htm

Indiana was the largest recipients of Carnegie grants with 156, followed by California with 121. The only states without Carnegie libraries are Alaska, Delaware and Rhode Island.

December 5 is the birthday of Rose Wilder Lane, (books by this author) born in 1887 in De Smet, Dakota Territory. She worked for the San Francisco Bulletin as a reporter, an editor, and the author of romance serials. She wrote biographies of Henry Ford, Charlie Chaplin, Jack London, and Herbert Hoover. She was a prolific and popular author, and one of the highest-paid female writers in America.
Rose Wilder Lane struggled with depression, and during one of her worst bouts, she went to stay with her parents on their farm in Missouri. Her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, was then in her 60s, and one day she showed Rose a manuscript she had been working on, the story of her childhood. No one is sure how much Rose and Laura collaborated, but Rose certainly helped her mother edit the manuscripts, and might have even helped write them. And they became the books in the Little House series, which include Little House in the Big Woods (1932), Farmer Boy (1933), Little House on the Prairie (1935), and On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937). The Writer’s Almanac