Tennis, Anyone? (1952); Another "Shoe" (1921)

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   Congratulations for Allan Metcalf making TIME OUT NEW YORK...Many years
ago, I wrote to TONY and told them important things about New York, things
they got wrong.  No one ever replied.
   Jesse Sheidlower made William Safire's column in this Sunday's NEW YORK
TIMES.
   The Serena WIlliams stalker made the front page of today's NEW YORK
POST--something that good work never makes.
   I'll be leaving for Mongolia in about an hour.  Maybe people there will be
kind to me?

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TENNIS, ANYONE?

   7 July 1952, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 35:
   _TENNIS, ANYONE?_
(An ad for Grossinger's hotel--ed.)

   16 February 1953, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 23:
   X is Extra, faceless, brief, his moment quickly done,
   He runs across the stage and hollers: "Tennis, anyone?"
(From "Broadway Alphabet."  It seems clear that some play started it--ed.)

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TOO MANY CHIEFS, NOT ENOUGH INDIANS

   12 February 1950, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 2155 classified ad:
   COUNSELORS, 31+, no families, "too many chiefs, not enough Indians"--...

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SELL A REFRIGERATOR TO AN ESKIMO

   20 August 1953, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 33:
   This outstanding individual is, according to the old hands in the sales
management game, a salesman who can sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo.
Yesterday Admiral Corporation, a leading appliance manufacturer, gave out
some information relevant to the old bromide.  Admiral says it is no trick
these days to sell a refrigerator or a home freezer to an Eskimo.  The two
appliances are in heavy demand in Alaska and other northern climes.

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CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK

   16 October 1919, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 10:
   It checks and double checks itself against errors.
(L. B. Automatic index--ed.)

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BIG FOND IN A SMALL POND

   25 December 1927, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. N14:
   ...Mr. Hirsch said yesterday, "might be expressed by the old saying, 'It
is better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a mighty
ocean.'"

(Small fish or lamppost?--ed.)

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CAN'T TELL THE PLAYERS WITHOUT A SCORE CARD

   26 September 1911, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 10:
   The foghorn yells: "Can't tell the players without a score card!  Get a
score card!"

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CHOCOLATE EASTER BUNNY

   Earlier material is in the NYPL annex.  I'll solve this by Easter.

   January 1915, CANDY AND ICE CREAM, pg. 21 ad:
_Chocolate Rabbbits and Eggs for Easter_
(...)
Ambrosia Chocolate Co.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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THE  OTHER SHOE TO DROP

   20 March 1921, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. BRM5:
   If nine out of ten of us hadn't heard that "drop that other shoe" chestnut
and molded our lives accordingly for the sake of the neighbor below us, what
would be the end of us?

   20 May 1933, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 12:
   How soon will the Japanese enter Peping and Zientsin and so drop that
other shoe?

   12 July 1938, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 18:
   A sound meter will no doubt register every decibel of a man dropping his
shoe on the floor overhead at midnight.  But a meter will not lie awake and
twitch, waiting for the man to drop his other shoe.