John Henry, My Microphonic Début
“ And now, when I hear the young fellows swanking and telling their adventures and expatiating upon the many thrills that this life affords, I sit back and watch the blue smoke curling out of my pipe, and in a vision I see myself once again coming safely out of that most awesome of all ordeals—my début before the microphone. ”
John Henry, My Microphonic Début
“ Explorers have written of the ghastly loneliness of the desert and the Arctic regions. Castaways on uninhabited islands have chronicled the appalling solitude of existence under such conditions. But no explorer or castaway ever experienced such a forsaken feeling as crept over me when the announcer opened the switch and made the statement that: "John Henry will now entertain you." ”
