>It was W. C. Fields who said:

"My wife drove me to drink. It's the only thing I can ever thank her for."


Actually it was my father, who often drove around with Fields when he was on a toot in the Twin Cities. He (my father) always swore that he was with Fields on more than one occasion when he opened bank accounts in strange names, which neither of them could remember the next day.

Another time, Pop and Mae West drove through a snowstorm to get her from Minneapolis to Chicago for a performance. Pop said the best performance was in the motel they had to spend two nights in during the trip. But he always WAS a braggart. One of his favorite lines was, "I'm not always as good as I once was, but I'm once as good as I always was."


TEd