Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/01/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The right words at the right moment. Thanks for sharing! JM Jean-Michel Mertz 68750 - Bergheim ________________________________ De : LUG <lug-bounces+j2m46=hotmail.fr at leica-users.org> de la part de Bill Clough via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> Envoy? : vendredi 1 janvier 2021 06:34 ? : Leica Users Group <LUG at leica-users.org> Cc : Bill Clough <billclough042541 at gmail.com> Objet : [Leica] HAPPY NEW YEAR As recounted in his Book ?This is London,? this is how Edward R. Murrow ended his broadcast of Dec. 31, 1939 from Bush House to CBS headquarters in New York by short-wave radio: ??The new year is at our door. I wish for the stupid a little understanding. and, for the understanding a little poetry, I wish a heart for the rich and a little bread for the poor, But, above all, I wish that we may blackguard each other as little as possible during the new year.? Those words were written by a German. Heinrich Heine?a great man?who died in 1856.? ?Bill _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information