New York Minute (1954?)

Sat Jun 10 13:06:47 UTC 2006

Good find, Barry, esp. since I first heard in the C&W song of ca1984 that contrasted it with "I'll take my _Texas_ time" [JL's emphasis].

  JL

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15 August 1954, Galveston (TX) News, pg. 22, col. 5:
_Island Pickups by..._
_THE BEACHCOMBER_
_...Christie Mitchell_
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Betty Jean Bird of the Pirate Club has what she claims the smallest French
poodle in the nation...It's no bigger than a New York minute and that's only
thirty seconds.

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