Dear Subscriber,

Welcome to the Tallfellow Tribune, Vol. I, Issue #4, October 2005 -
The "It Can??™t Really Be October Already, Can It?" Issue

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Enjoy the Tallfellow Tribune - your hopefully-by-now-favorite newsletter, chock full of trivia, games, contests and news from Tallfellow Press of Los Angeles - a pioneer in indie publishing. See below for fun facts, VERY special discounts and charity contributions and our fourth Droodles Caption Contest (and last month's winner)... plus our attempts to lighten your load with some interesting trivia.

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TALLFELLOW TRIVIA - SPONSORED BY A Nation Lost and Found - 1936 America Remembered by Ordinary and Extraordinary People by Frank Pierson and Stanley K. Sheinbaum

October Trivia: (answers below)

??? What state joined the union on October 31, 1864 making it the 36th state?
??? What president made Columbus day official and in what year?
??? Who died on October 31, 1926 and then received a day commemorating not only him but his entire profession?
??? Did you know that the United Nations was formed on October 24, 1945 after the end of WWII?
??? Did you know that Liz Taylor was married for the 8th time (to Larry Fortensky) in October 1991? ???Did you know that Sandy Koufax played his last game in the October 1966 World Series against the Baltimore Orioles?
??? Did you know that The Jazz Singer, the first ???Talking Picture,??™ opened in October of 1927?

??? Some famous October birthdays: John Keats, Pablo Picasso, Martin Luther King III, Groucho Marx, Jimmy Carter, Nat Turner, Ray Kroc, Carole Lombard, Barr Tillstrom, Freidrich Nietzsche, Noah Webster, Yo-Yo Ma, L.L. Sloan, James Cook, Martina Navratilova, Bill Dana, Sting, Thelonius Monk, Hugh Jackman, Bonnie Parker, Alfred Nobel, Ruth Gordon, Sir Christopher Wren, Julie Andrews and John Lennon.

Sponsored by A Nation Lost and Found - 1936 America Remembered by Ordinary and Extraordinary People, a book that seems amazingly relevant in today??™s troubled times.

A quote from the book from a retried schoolteacher, Josephine Williams, points out the similarities:
???A minimum of 50 people came and stayed at our seven-room home. That didn??™t include the many others that just came to eat or catch a few hours of sleep. A grocer stored part of his inventory in our basement. He was generous enough to donate food for the crowd. My mother made soup and spaghetti in large tubs on our coal-burning stove. People would come in and help themselves and Mom would keep cooking. My 16-year-old brother was busy rowing around the town in a rowboat with his buddies, looking for adventure. The radio was playing music and reporting news about the flood. People talked and laughed and even danced at times. I think that lasted a little over two to three weeks.??? (p.330)

And this observation by the co-author of the book, Frank Pierson, in his Introduction: ???Among the survivor contributors are well known names - Tom Wicker, Shirley Temple Black, and Leah Rabin, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Nobel prize winner Glenn Seaborg and many others, whose stories and memories merge with the forgotten, to call out to us from the past and present. What is remarkable and uplifting in these stories is the way in which everyone soldiered on, never gave up. Some danced to music of denial, others grew angry and bitter, some fought, nobody seemed to give up. That was what was so remarkable - the indomitable spirit, refusal to accept despair or failure.??? (p.xix)

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BREAKING NEWS OF ALL THINGS TALLFELLOW

!!!ONE DAY ONLY SALE !!! On Friday, October 28th, Tallfellow Press will offer a 50% discount on ALL purchases from our website at www.Tallfellow.com. BUT WAIT THERE??™S MORE - On top of the discount, we will also donate a percentage of all sales to the Humane Society Hurricaine Relief Fund. So, don??™t miss out on great books at amazing prices with Important benefits! Use code "October" upon checkout to receive your 50% discount.

Brought to you by FOREVER FRIENDS by Barbara S. Cohen, illustrated by Dorothy Louise Hall

The story of a dog and his boy and their everlasting friendship. A book which has been adopted by many Humane Education Programs across the country, by an author whose achievements were recently recognized in her alumni magazine, the Radcliffe Quarterly and an illustrator just recongnized with the Judith Vance Weld Brown Spirit of Journalism Award from the New England Society of Newspaper Editors!!!

THE RETURN OF DROODLES!
The 4th Droodles Caption Contest is here! Go to our blog to celebrate the satisfactions of being succinct. As always, the winner gets a free, one-of-a-kind copy of the mass-produced mega-seller, Droodles: The Classic Collection.

This month's Droodle is in honor of all things creepy, crawly and Halloweeny!
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Real Captions: A Spider Doing A Handstand OR Total Eclipse of the Sun on a Stick OR Family of Worms Stuck in Carmel Apple OR A Frightened Mop.

Now tell us your best captions at our blog.

And although it was very tough, we have finally decided that the winner of last month's contest is... Miranda for "Computer Curser: A Glamour Shot." Congrats! Look for a copy of Droodles - The Classic Collection in the mail. To see the Droodle and the winning caption, visit our blog.

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AND, IN ANOTHER, TOTALLY UNRELATED STORY

Sponsored by The Grandfather Thing - A Warmly Comic Memoir by Saul Turteltaub

There's a celebrity in our midst... our very own Saul Turteltaub was elected a Celebrity Grandparent by the Grandparents Day organization! Congratulations, Saul! Now the entire internet will want to sit on your lap! Visit the link below for more info.
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Sponsored by SOMETHIN??™ PUMPKIN by Scott Allen and illustrated by Jimmy Pickering, featuring ghosts, monsters, witches, black cats and everything gourdy for the most fun day of the year...with candy! Great for carving ideas, costume ideas or just to read to the kids! Your perfect contribution to the amount spent above on paraphernalia!!!!!!
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A TALL SMALL NOTE

And don??™t forget that Summer is gone and Autumn is here. What a great time to share the joys of Fall with our very own Sally and Sam in IT??™S FALL by Jimmy Pickering!

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TRIVIA #1 ANSWERS
1. Nevada

2. President Harrison

3. Harry Houdini



TRIVIA #2 ANSWERS
1. Samhainophobia, from the original Celtic holiday Samhain - celebrating the end of the harvest and honoring the dead

2. e) One and a half Billion

3. e) Two Billion

4. d) Two and a half Billion

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Thanks for reading The Tallfellow Tribune! Onward and upward...and forward, if you like it!!!
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Los Angeles, CA 90035