Red Carpet; Nowhere to go but up; Thin as Matzoh

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   A NYHT roundup...A nice definition of financial "window dressing" is in October 14, 1963, pg. 30, col. 6, but it isn't an antedate.

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RED CARPET

   "The Red Carpet Returns" by Lucius Beebe is in the NEW YORK magazine section of the Sunday NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 13 October 1963, pp. 14-15.
   OED has this from 1934, but the "red carpet" treatment is well described here by Beebe.  It may have originated with a train called _The 20th Century Limited_.

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NOWHERE TO GO BUT UP

   This is a Kurt Weill song in KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY (1938).  Or a saga of the stock market.
   This--about my alma mater-- is in the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 13 October 1963 (forgot to add page):

_28 Losses in Row_
_Up Only Way R.P.I. Can Go_

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THIN AS MATZOH

   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 14 October 1963, pg. 15, col. 1:

_Yiddish Musical Plot_
_As Thin as a Matzoh_
(...)
   Curiously enough, "Don't Worry, Brother" avoids most of the tried-and-true borscht-opera situations.  Nobody gets cancer; nobody runs off with a _shickseh_; there isn't even an apostate son in the house.
(...)(Col. 3--ed.)
   Some of the jokes in the show fall as heavily as a day-old bagel, and the plot is as thin as a matzoh.

(AHH!  Back to work--ed.)