Comedian George Burn's club gave a big dinner in honor of his ninety-fifth birthday. The dais was loaded with talent. One of the first speakers was Irving Brecher, the creator-writer of the popular television show of the fifties, THE LIFE OF RILEY, and the director of many fine movies.

Here is what Brecher had to say about Burns: "What is so unusual about our guest of honor this evening is that in a profession that is so frenetically competitive ” where the pressure to make it big is so intense that often friends turn on one another ” George Burns does not have a single enemy." Brecher paused for a moment, then added, "They all died." (1)

One of James Thurber's funniest stories concerns his grandfather, who fought as many as a dozen Indians bare-handed ” to hear him tell it ” and vanquished …