Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
LSD, chess, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and 12 pianos
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., July 8, 2005
In a 1951 chess game between Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Bogart led with a Ruy Lopez opening. In the end, Bogart had four pawns and a knight, while Bacall had four pawns and decided to resign.
Homer and Langley Collyer, packrat brothers, stowed newspapers, old Christmas trees, 12 pianos, and a dismantled automobile in their Harlem mansion over a 40-year period – a total of 180 tons. Homer starved to death; Langley smothered to death.Deceased entertainer John Davidson had two uncles who were professors at Baylor University.
Women could not serve on juries in Texas until 1954.
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