How Old Was Moses When Pharaoh’s Daughter Found Him in a Basket?
Answer Next Sunday Eighty million yawning, sad Americans rattled open their newspapers every morning to read about: Liu Ch’ung, the double-eyed man of China!, or the long-tailed shrew, smallest mammal in the world, breathing 800 times a minute!, or Kuda Bux, the man who walked on fire through a 20 foot long bed of charcoal without a single burn on his feet!, or “Three Ball Charlie,” who could put three balls in his mouth and whistle at the same time!, or a seventy-five-year-old petrified apple! or Laurello, the only man in the world with a revolving head, who could walk forward while looking backward! – all this set Ripley fans agog, agog enough to forget there were no jobs, dough had dried up and a wholesale slaughter called war was taking place on a never-before-seen scale…. forget it, readers could marvel at The Human Slate, the Human Flag, the Human Belt, the Human Pincushion, the Human Cork, the Human Autograph Album, glimpse wider possibilities for themselves in the ice sitters,
