n Word of the week: “outsert.” Coined to be the opposite of “insert,” it means just what you might think: a wraparound that encloses something, such as an advertising sheet around a newspaper.
n Coincidence? We have no idea. William Ferrell reports that 4077 (the number of the army unit in “M*A*S*H”) converted to hexadecimal (base 16), works out to “FED.” In hexadecimal, numbers from 10-15 are represented as the letters A-F.
In 1947, Marlon Brando originated the role of Stanley Kowalski on Broadway in the Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire.” When Brando broke his nose during the play’s run, what future Oscar-winning actor temporarily replaced him?
A) Jack Lemmon
B) Ernest Borgnine
C) Yul Brynner
D) Jack Palance
Saturday’s answer: Operated by the state of Illinois, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library opened in 2004 in Springfield, making Lincoln the earliest-serving U.S. president with his own library.
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