Charles Norris

Person quoted by Bennett Cerf; identity unresolved

Bennett Cerf’s 1944 column names Charles Norris. Quote Investigator cautions that the name could refer to novelist Charles Gilman Norris, but that identification is not established.

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“If matches had been invented after the cigarette lighter, they would have been hailed as a huge advance”

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