Who is Franklin P. Adams

Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881 – March 23, 1960) was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F.P.A.. Famed for his wit, he is best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. A prolific writer of light verse, he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s.

New York newspaper columnist

Adams was born Franklin Leopold Adams to German Jewish immigrants Moses and Clara Schlossberg Adams in Chicago on November 15, 1881. He changed his middle name to "Pierce" when he had a bar mitzvah at age 13. Adams graduated from the Armour Scientific Academy (now Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1899, attended the University of Michigan ...
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Franklin P. Adams Poems

• An Election Night Pantoum
  Gaze at the good-natured crowd,
  List to the noise and the rattle!
  Heavens! that woman is loud-
  Loud as the din of a battle....
• The Return Of The Soldier
  Lady when I left you
  Ere I sailed the sea,
  Bitterly bereft you
  Told me you would be....
• The Last Laugh
  Horace: Epode 25
  
  "Nox erat et cælo fulgebat Luna sereno---"
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• Lines On Reading Frank J. Wilstach's
  As neat as wax, as good as new,
  As true as steel, as truth is true,
  Good as a sermon, keen as hate,
  Full as a tick, and fixed as fate--...

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Franklin P. Adams Quotes

• The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.
• The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
• I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
• I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
• There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

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Comments about Franklin P. Adams

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• Bdfitzpatrick: qotd: "nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory." -franklin p. adams
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• Amnon_danzig: "nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory." franklin p. adams

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