Tinsel Town (1950)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    The CASSELL DICTIONARY OF SLANG has 1970+ for "tinsel town."  >    HDAS?
Was this coined by Virginia MacPherson of United Press?
>
>     25 May 1950, WATERLOO SUNDAY COURIER (Waterloo, Iowa)
>     (Lana Turner..The story is by UP writer Virginia MacPherson-->     ed.)

I don't think MacPherson coined it.  Here's an earlier citation:

1939 _N.Y. Times_ 15 Oct. 141  She arrived in Hollywood one morning and, as
nothing is incredible in Tinseltown, found herself working as his assistant the
next.


Fred Shapiro