Muskie: "Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything" (1972)
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Bapopik at AOL.COM
Tue Dec 28 13:52:19 UTC 2004
The 1932 Chicago Tribune "hit" was bad.
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I also saw the Charlie Brown attribution on Google. Ben Zimmer is a good
man. But what date is it from? And what date did Joe E. Lewis use the phrase
(surely in the 1940s or 1950s)?
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Anyway, here's Senator Muskie:
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5 April 1972, Washington Post, pg. A8:
Muskie said of his fourth place finish here: "You know they say winning
isn't everything, but I must say losing isn't anything."
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