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Show na ge lh ( 11/1 6) and that was in the " ·: But I just don't se e why there has to be all this explicit sex that really doesn't have anything to do with the singing, excent to sell the books. Sow we're read-ing 'A trundred '',and that ts truly a good book ..• ~ ••.• You know, vou don't grow old tf vou keep exposing yourself to things. You get in a rut which will destrov you. Still, it's J'' t I safe, and notA~anv new stories. L. :.1 Now, you asked ~e so~ething about a grant. During the rirst World I ~r, teon Sweet was on the co~mittee for the Red Cross to collect funds. And one of the people he was to call on was Nathan Rosenbla. 1t. and didn't l{nov.r Nathan Rosenbla~ very well, because Nathan belonged to ~ontefiore and Lebn, when he went,belonged to B'Naie Israel. He said ~alright, I will take this card and I will go see him, but I don't really think that we'll get very much". So, -\t he went to see ~r. Nathan Rosenbla~, and it was close to dinner ti~e, and Mr . Rosenbla~. who still had a very heavy accent from Eurone, said ''well, I'd like to do something, but I'll have to 4 ~ 4 4 discuss it with ~Y sons, you can co~e bacl{ after lunch". Leon C said ~ye~ / to himself and to ~is partner, and I don't really know who the partner was unless it was Jal{e Conn, he said ~well, that was kind of a soft brush off, but we'll go back, we'll do our duty". He went back and Nathan said ''I've talked to rny sons", he C had three sons, ~and I am personally so grateful for the wonderful opportunity this great land has given ~e that we have decided we ~ will give you as ~uch as we truly can afford, and we will give you t ~2,000•. And in 1914 ~2,000 was a great deal of money, and the Rosenbla~~ were not wealthy people at that ti~e. I'm telling you • • 4 that story because he was so fond of that, and he told it time afte4 ~ ~ |
