THE DISTINCTION
It has been said of Will Rogers that when > homeward-bound American workers;, stopped ,to buy their evening papers at tram or train, they asked not for any particular paper by name, but for "the paper that Will Rogers is writing in."
■ It has been given to few people to capture a nation as he captured America, but, though he reached the stars, he always kept "his sharp-heeled cowboy boots firmly, on the ground."
In, his "Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will" ■'(Hutchinson and Co.), .Mr. P. J. O'Brien tells how: Will Rogers was invited to'dinner'by a Californian business man, and next day sent in a bill' for £250.' He answered the protest of the host's, .secretary-that he had been asked, in a purely social way, with the remark: .'• •
"Oh, no. When' people invite me alone, it's professional. ..When it's social they include Mrs. Rogers, and she wasn't invited." The bill was paid. Rogers endorsed the cheque and gave it to charity. ■'••■■
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Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 26
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163THE DISTINCTION Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 26
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