Friday, March 28, 2008
[1899 - Brewing magnate August Anheuser Busch, Jr., born in St. Louis, Missouri]
[1909 - Nelson Algren, novelist, born in Detroit, Michigan]
[1914 - Edmund (Sixtus) Muskie, Governor, U.S. Senator from Maine, Secretary of State, born in Rumford, Maine]
[1921 - Dirk Bogarde (Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde), actor, born in West Hampstead, London]
[1979 - Accidents at Three Mile Island bring nuclear power plant close to uranium core meltdown]
[1979 - Accidents at Three Mile Island bring nuclear power plant close to uranium core meltdown]
[1903 - Rudolf Serkin, concert pianist, born in Bohemia]
Predilection For Puns
Punning from damaged chromosomes comes.
Defective human phenome is the villain.
Alliterative affliction has similar origins,
Neither responds to a pencil or penicillin.