Milton Berle's famed joke file is going on sale. Yes, the one and the same joke file that yielded this: "We owe a lot to Thomas Edison-if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

The No. 1 jokesmith of his day is a six-foot gag-&-stunt machine named Milton Berle (rhymes with churl). His 38-year-old brain is a tight-packed file of some 50,000 jokes and japes. With never-miss ...