Perhaps it's the heat. Or maybe the humidity. Whatever the cause, people everywhere are coming down with a highly contagious diseasethe latest running gag. Right now it is the Thinnest Books, a joke started by Comedian Morey Amsterdam. Thin books are insults between covers, and thinking them up is as hard to resist as a second handful of peanuts. Samples:
My Future in Boxing, by Sonny Listen
The Joys of Retirement, by Nikita Khrushchev
Growing Old Gracefully, by Little Orphan Annie
Memoirs of a Lonely Boyhood, by Robert Kennedy
My Years in the White House, by Barry Goldwater
Some are anonymous:
Friends of Charles de Gaulle
War...
