Talk:Will Rogers

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Contents 1 Request for Comment 2 "Never met a man..." 3 Alarm Clock 4 Source of name

[edit] Request for Comment

http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/rogers.asp "Of part-Cherokee parentage..."

The "California state beach named for him" was ACTUALLY Rogers' property, and was part of the 1944 ceding of his widow in her own will to the California state parks separtment that included the home and its park; the beach became its own state beach entity.

[edit] "Never met a man..."

Arguably _the_ most well-known thing about Will Rodgers today is his quote "I never met a man I didn't like", yet it is not even mentioned in the article? Pimlottc 13:13, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Added in the publications section. --Claygate 17:48, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alarm Clock

"He brought in a wind-up alarm clock, and its on-air buzzing would alert him to begin wrapping up his comments. By 1935, his show was being announced as "Will Rogers and his famous Alarm Clock"!

According to the book "Will Rogers: Ambassador of Good Will" this was actually a gag, and he was just ringing the bell himself, and then moaning about the 'interruption'. Unless anybody has any contradictory evidence I'm going to change it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.149.81.235 (talk) 14:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC).

Please cite the reference to the book when you make the edit by using the <ref> tag. This article is a bit short on proper references. Thanks! --Claygate 22:17, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Source of name

I just noticed his full name was William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers. I'm researching county names and it appears the same person Rogers is named after is the same person Adair County, Oklahoma is named after. Might be worth mentioning in the article. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v002/v002p075.html. I thought I'd let somebody who has worked on this article before add it. If nobody does, I will in a few days/weeks. Granted, I have no source that this was in fact who his parents named him after but it almost appears to be common sense.↔NMajdan•talk 21:28, 28 February 2007 (UTC)