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[Lisa Marie Heitman]

At 01:20 PM 9/19/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>    I have a few minutes.  Here's a brief roundup from the New York Herald
> Tribune.  I must stress that some items are "better" than others--please
> use extreme caution.
>    The ADS web page wasn't available today when I checked it.
>
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>ONLY IN NEW YORK CITY (continued)
>
>    Cindy Adams, gossip columnist of the New York Post, tried to register
> "Only in New York."
>    "Only in New York City," by Richard B, Gehman, is in THIS WEEK, NYHT,
> 23 January 1949, pg. 10.
>    This is earlier than the popular song "Only in America."
>
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>WILLIE HOWARD & "COMES THE REVOLUTION"
>
>    The NYHT, 13 January 1949, obituary for Willie Howard reveals that he
> was a dialect comedian who possibly put several slang phrases into
> circulation.  I'll check his file when the Performing Arts Library reopens.
>    From col. 3:
>
>    For each of his classic sketches--"The Quartet," "Mexican Presidents,"
> "I Can Get It for You Wholesale," "After the Opera" or "French
> Lessons"--he had a different approach.  His famous "Rewolt" routine
> ("Comes the ravalution, you'll eat strawberries and like it!") furnished
> a favorite gag for the depression years.
>
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>SIGNS ON WALLS
>
>    From THIS WEEK, 2 January 1949, pg. 8, col. 1:
>
>CORN: Signs on walls are as old as the hills
>(Above this photo caption are:--ed.}
>
>YOU HAVE TRIED THE REST,
>NOW TRY THE BEST.
>
>IF WE PLEASE YOU
>TELL YOUR FRIENDS.
>IF NOT TELL US.
>
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>EARTH-BROWN
>
>    From the NYHT, 29 December 1948, pg. 12, col. 5:
>
>_"Earth-Brown"_
>_Is New Color in_
>_Latest Carpets_
>
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>REPUBLOCRAT WHING-DING
>
>    The cartoon appeared in the Detroit Free Press.  From the NYHT,
> section II, pg. 7, col. 3:
>
>That Republocrat Whing-Ding
>
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>PEACE OFFENSIVE
>
>    Compare with "charm offensive."  One of many cartoon captions is the
> NYHT, 24 January 1949, pg. 18, cols. 5-7:  "That's What Some People Call
> a 'Peace Offensive.'"
>
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>QUICKIE VACATION
>
>    I used to hear this a lot.  It was the line in the very frequent TWA
> ads, and one is in the NYHT, 13 January 1949, pg. 20, col. 2:
>
>GET A NEW LEASE
>ON LIVING...WITH A
>
>_Quickie Vacation_
>
>IN CALIFORNIA OR THE SOUTHWEST
>only hours away, by TWA