NYHT words, phrases

[Barry Popik]

  AOL is not sending mail again!...First item is from the NEW YORK MIRROR.

13 March 1962, NEW YORK MIRROR, Brother Juniper" cartoon caption of art
critic--"'Derivative'?  Sure they're 'derivative,' but 'derivative' of
WHAT?"   Some stuff from the (mostly) NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE for anybody
and everybody.

18 January 1965, NYHT, pg. 17, col. 1 cartoon caption--"Before you slugged
me, I was going to ask--'What do you want, blood?'"

18 January 1965, NYHT, pg. 10(?), col. 2 obituary:
_Vincent Nardiello,_
_"Fighting Doctor"_
_Of the Prize Ring_
(...)  Throught the years boxing writers and columnists attempted to educate
the public to the fact that Dr. Nardiello, sometimes called the "Fighting
Doctor," or the "fourth man" in the ring, was not only the fans' but the
fighters' best friend.  He was a fine physician who knew the boxing business
from hard experience.
("Fight" or "fighting" doctor?  Ferdie Pacheco is the "Fight Doctor."  Does
a "Fighting Doctor" fight?  Does a "Fight Doctor" doctor fights?--ed.)

23 January 1965, NYHT, pg. 10, col. 2 obituary--_Leon Vart, "Ski Bum"_.

24 January 1965, NYHT, NEW YORK magazine, pg. 34, col. 1--People started out
saying that "FM means fine music."

25 January 1965, NYHT, pg. 18 ad for NBC's Chet Huntley and David
Brinkley--ANYBODY WHO IS ANYBODY WAS THERE.

10 February 1965, NYHT, pg. 23, cols. 6-8 headline--_"No Show" Jobs Must
Go_.

14 February 1965, NYHT, pg. 35 headline--_Big To-Do Called Overdone_.

16 February 1965, NYHT, sec. 3, pg. 8, col. 1--"When you say that, smile."
That famous line from Owen Wister's "The Viginian"...

17 February 1965, NYHT, pg. 37, col. 4 obituaries:
_John Breck,_
_Hair Rinses_
_His Fortune_
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.
   Fifty-seven years ago, John H. Breck sr. ran a ladies "hair salon" and
employed three people.
("Hair salon" is in quotes.  It's not in OED--ed.)

28 February 1965, NYHT, NEW YORK magazine, pg. 16, story headline--_The
Go-See Scene_.
(Models on "go-sees"--ed.)

3 March 1965, NYHT, pg. 23, cols. 6-7--_Mel and the Sophomore Jinx_.
(Dick Schaap's column on 11 March 1965, pg. 19, col. 1, was "The Sophomore
Jinx."  It's not in the OED--ed.)

14 March 1965, NYHT, pg. 40, col. 3:
_Hughes Mearns, Educator, Wrote_
_"The Little Man Who Wasn't There"_
(...)
"As I was walking up the stair
"I met a man who wasn't there
"He wasn't there again today
"I wish, I wish he'd stay away."

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SUE, SUE

17 January 1965, NYHT, pg. 26, col. 1:
_Fighting City Hall--In Court_
By Francis Sugrue
   Sue the City!

17 January 1965, NYHT, THIS WEEK magazine, pages 6-7:
_WHEN IN DOUBT, SUE!_

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SUPER, SUPER

10 January 1965, NYHT, section 2, pg. 4, col. 2:
_...It's Super-Chic_

31 January 1965, NYHT, Travel section 3, pg. 11, col. 1:
_Super Trains?  They're an Old Story to the Japanese_

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BRIEF BRIEF, SHORT SHORT, SHORT LONG

8 November 1964, NYHT, section 2, pg. 2, col. 2:
  Tiffeau is completely serious about his brief-brief skirts.

15 November 1964, NYHT, section 2, pg. 1, col. 2:
   The look of a short-short skirt, long-long legs and midway boots, with or
without space helmet, have made the inventor, Andre Courreges, today's
man-of-the-moment in European fashion.

20 December 1964, NYHT, NEW YORK magazine, pg. 10, col. 2:
_Short Longs_
by Eugenia Sheppard
Paris, London, Los Angeles and New York designers have become intrigued with
a new length for evening--it falls to seven inches off the ground.

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JOKES ARCHIVE?

   From the NYHT, 7 March 1965, regional section, pg. 3, cols. 5-8:

_Jokes--a Lifetime Hobby_
(...)  Mr. (Leopold--ed.) Fechtner has his two loves, his wife--who has
tolerated and dusted his collection of 2,500 books, 11 scrap books and
filing cabinets for 30 years--and his collection of American humor.
(...)  Mrs. Fechtner wishes he would sell the collection.

(Where is it?--ed.)
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