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• Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Seuss Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1904. Seuss, a name with Bavarian roots, was his mother’s maiden name and was pronounced “Zoice,” (rhyming with “rejoice”), not “Soose,” the Anglicized pronunciation.

• As a senior at Dartmouth College, Ted Geisel was the editor of “Jack-O-Lantern,” the college’s humor magazine, a medium he used to publish his cartoons. Prohibition was in full swing in 1925, and when Geisel and nine of his friends were caught drinking gin in his room, all the young men were put on probation. Geisel lost his position as editor of the magazine, but continued to publish his cartoons under several aliases, including T. Seuss.

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DR. SEUSS (continued): • Geisel returned to the United States to pursue a career as an illustrator and cartoonist for several notable publications, including Vanity Fair and Life. The Saturday Evening Post was the first to publish one of his cartoons in their July, 1927 issue. Geisel received $25 for the cartoon, which prompted him to make the move to New York City.

• Geisel branched out into advertising campaigns, and created an extremely successful campaign for a popular insecticide called Flit. The slogan “Quick, Henry, the Flit!” became the trendy catchphrase of the day.

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• While Geisel and his wife were aboard a ship crossing the Atlantic in 1936, he passed the time by putting words to the rhythms of the ship’s engines. The result was Dr. Seuss’ first children’s book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. It was the story of a boy named Marco, who imagines a procession of fantasy creatures as he travels along Mulberry Street. Although all Marco really saw was an old horse pulling a wagon, he spins a tale of whizzleworps and cholmondelets. The real Mulberry Street is less than a mile from Geisel’s boyhood home in Springfield, Massachusetts. The book was rejected 27 times before fate finally stepped in.

Geisel was walking down the street and bumped into a friend who had just landed a job as an editor in the children’s section at Vanguard Press.

Geisel told the friend he had given up and planned to destroy the book. The friend asked to have a look, and Vanguard published the book in 1937, when Dr. Seuss was 33. ...continued

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• Dr. Seuss’ second book, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, was published in 1938, followed by The King’s Stilts in 1939 and Horton Hatches the Egg in 1940. When World War II broke out, Ted Geisel supported the effort by designing posters for the Treasury Department and War Production Board. He became an Army captain in 1943, overseeing the Animation Department of the First Motion Picture Unit, creating training films, one of which was awarded the 1947 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

• After the war, Geisel returned to advertising, which was his main source of income, although he continued to publish children’s books, including If I Ran the Zoo in 1950 and Horton Hears a Who in 1954. His big breakthrough came in 1957 with The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss’ 13th book.

• During World War II, Dr. Seuss had worked with William Spaulding, who went on to become director of the education division at Houghton Mifflin publishers. Spaulding, concerned that children were not learning to read, approached Seuss, with a list of 348 words that he felt were important for first-graders to know.

Spaulding asked for a book containing 250 of those words, and only those words, a book “children can’t put down.” Nine months later, Seuss presented him with The Cat in the Hat, using 236 words from the list. The book was an immediate success, selling nearly a million copies by the end of 1960.

• How the Grinch Stole Christmas was also published in 1957, and in 1958, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! Seuss’ success led him to found Beginner Books, a division of Random House, books designed to help children learn to read. ...continued

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DR. SEUSS (continued): • Fellow publisher Bennett Cerf bet Seuss that he could not write a book using 50 words or less. This challenge resulted in 1960’s Green Eggs and Ham, Seuss’ bestselling title and the fourth best-selling children’s book of all time. The text does in fact consist of just 50 different words.

• Of all the characters invented by Seuss, he said the one that was most based on himself was the Grinch. He once described himself as a “nasty anti-Christmas character,” and wrote the story to see if he “could rediscover something about Christmas” that he’d lost.

• Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated 44 books, of which 40 are in rhyme. Twenty-two other books were illustrated by others, co-authored by Seuss, written under another name, or published after his death. Of the total of 66 books, only five are not written in rhyme. For the 10 books that Geisel wrote and others illustrated, he used the pen name Theo LeSieg, which is Geisel spelled backwards. These include Ten Apples Up on Top, I Wish That I Had Duck Feet, and The Tooth Book.

• Dr. Seuss final book was Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, written in 1990, the year before he died.

It has become a favorite gift for graduates with its wisdom, “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”

• Although Dr. Seuss married twice, he had no children of his own. He did have two stepdaughters with his second wife. When he was frequently asked how he could write so well for children, his reply was, “You have ‘em, I’ll entertain ‘em.” It’s ironic that he wrote his first children’s book in the same year that his first wife learned that she could not have children.

• Dr. Seuss’ books have sold more than 600 million copies and have been translated into 20 languages.

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Multiple eruptions over the next few weeks killed more than 20,000 people. Most of the victims could have saved themselves, but stayed.

• On March 12, 1933, eight days after his inauguration, President Franklin Roosevelt gives his "fireside chat," a radio broadcast directly from the White House. Roosevelt explained his decision to close the nation's banks to stop mass withdrawals.

• On March 9, 1943, Bobby Fischer, the only American ever to win the chess world championship, is born in Chicago. His last public match, in 1992 against Boris Spassky, netted Fischer the $2 million prize. He then became a wanted man for tax evasion, and in 2000 renounced his U.S. citizenship.

• On March 6, 1951, the espionage trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins after the couple is accused of running a spy ring and selling topsecret atomic bomb technology to Russia. The Rosenbergs were convicted, and were the only American civilians to be executed for espionage-related activity during the Cold War. • On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the assassination of civil- rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and is sentenced to 99 years in prison. Ray later changed his story, claiming he had been set up by a mysterious man named "Raoul."

• On March 11, 1989, "COPS," a documentarystyle TV series that follows police officers and sheriff's deputies as they go about their jobs, debuts on FOX. "COPS" went on to become one of the longest-running shows in television history.

• On March 7, 1999, American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, whose 13 feature films explored the dark side of human nature, dies in England at age 70. Kubrick was best known for his films "Spartacus" (1960), "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) and "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968). © 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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NOPE I have a friend who runs a high-end retail business. Every day, one of the things she does is check the rungs inside of the clothes racks. Occasionally, she will find an article of clothing stashed behind, say, a rack of dress shirts. The next time the sneaky person goes to check on the item, there’s a post-it note with the word “NOPE” in its place.

Major League Baseball is sneaky, too. It’s the only game where you’re allowed to steal — the other manager’s signals, the catcher’s signals ... an actual base or two — not to mention all of the even sneakier stuff some guys try to pull. Vaseline under the cap, nail files in their back pocket, spit and rosin, to name a few. But nothing is more egregious than when baseball tries to sneak in a new rule.

Home-field advantage being decided by the winner of the All-Star Game? Stupid, when it’s a game based upon mutual participation and can theoretically end in a tie. The new one-game play-in playoff games?

The worst. The designated hitter — good idea in theory, kind of worked out for guys like David Ortiz, Reggie Jackson, Jim Thome and Edgar Martinez, but really hasn’t made watching games any more enjoyable. The most exciting plays in baseball are the defensive ones anyway.

But now they’ve come up with

a real doozy. The proposed rule change would affect extra-inning ballgames. The proposed idea is start an extra-inning game with a runner on second base, in scoring position.

Now just think about how idiotic that rule would be for a second.

The Sabremetric guys will tell you that with no outs and a man on second, a team has a very good probability of scoring a run. With nobody on base, your chance of scoring drops to about 40 percent. That’s a pretty big swing ... except it isn’t a swing at all.

The player never earned the right to be on the field.

So the manager picks a player, more than likely his preferred base-burning pinch runner. Does he get a hit for that? A walk? No. That’s not fair to the pitcher. Does it affect his on-base percentage? It would have to ... how would you account for the run? And why should the pitcher be given such a handicap? If that guy scores, is it an unearned run? Hey, why not just have ghost runners?

And get this: The smart people at Forbes just did the math and figured out it would shorten only about 6 percent of extra-inning games.

The Major Leagues should have stopped when they got it right: banning the spitball and the infield fly rule (the game’s only flaw). If you want to shorten games, you make the batter stay in the batter’s box, period.

You’re up there to hit. If the pitcher takes too long to throw, you give him two warnings, and the third time he stalls you boot him from the game.

But trying to ruin the game with that sneaky little second-base runner rule? Nope.

Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in New Jersey. © 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Happy Pancake Week! In conjunction with Shrove Tuesday, February 28, Tidbits is flipping over this breakfast food!

• International Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday takes place 47 days before Easter Sunday. Due to the variation of Easter’s date based on the cycles of the moon, Pancake Day can occur anytime between February 3 and March 9. It falls one day before Ash Wednesday, which is the first day of Lent. Over 1,000 years ago, the tradition of eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday began. It was a way of eating up all leftover fatty, rich, perishable foods before the fasting period of the Lenten season began. The term “Mardi Gras” is French for “Fat Tuesday.”

• The word “shrove” is the past tense of “shrive,” which translates “absolve” or “confess.” Therefore, many Christians use the day as a day of self-examination, reflecting on any wrongs from which they need to repent.

• Pancakes have been around for thousands of years, with the earliest known made from ground grains and nuts, mixed with water or milk and cooked on hot stones. The first pancake recipe similar to what we know today appeared in an English cookbook in the 15th century. Citizens of Buckinghamshire, England were the first to celebrate Pancake Day in 1445.

• According to French legend, if you hold a coin in one hand while flipping a pancake with other one, you can make a wish come true.

• Although pancake batter is frequently made with milk (along with flour, sugar, butter, and eggs), those pancakes made with buttermilk are softer and fluffier. Before we had baking soda, cooks used fresh snow because it contained ammonia, which made the cakes fluffier. ...continued

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