Trivia

Mon., May 6, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Seven out of every 100 letter writers put the return address on the backflap of the envelope.

Hedgehogs don’t catch colds.

Correspondents say the prestige job for young women in Japan now is flight attendant. Applicant lists are long long long.

Q. When doctors give you antibiotics, they insist you take them all, even after you don’t seem to need anymore. Why?

A. If you don’t, the more resistant bacteria may survive to breed an even stronger strain.

Q. Which is older - jazz or gospel music?

A. Jazz. It grew big in the 1920s about 30 years after it started. Gospel origins go into the distant past, but the music so called only dates back to 1931. A songwriter and blues pianist named Thomas A. Dorsey, originally of Villa Rica, Ga., developed it when he went to work as a church choir director. Music historians now rate him as the Father of Gospel Music. He died in 1993.

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