Big Antedating of "Different Strokes for Different Folks"

[Scot LaFaive]

Very nice.



On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:

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> The earliest previously known occurrence of this saying is 1966 by Muhammad
> Ali, also found by me.
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> 1945 _Philadelphia Tribune_ [African-American newspaper] 19 May 5 (ProQuest
> Historical Newspapers)  Yes, I realize that "times have changed" and that,
> as a jitterbug friend told me the other day, "one has different strokes for
> different folks."
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> Fred Shapiro
> Associate Librarian for Collections and Access
> Lillian Goldman Law Library
> Yale Law School
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