Franklin Pierce Adams
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Franklin Pierce Adams was a columnist, most well known by his initials F.P.A., and also for his wit, his newspaper column, ‘The Conning Tower’, and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio’s ”Information Please”. He was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s. He signed on with the Chicago Journal in 1903 where he wrote a weather column and then a humor column, ‘A Little about Everything’. ”’Famous Quotes:”’I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.””To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.”””Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”’