"Take Me to Your Leader"

[Joel S. Berson]

To Jesse and Fred:  Oops!  No, it was quite clear.  May I place the
blame on fading short-term memory, and reading only the first part of
Reply messages?  (My long-term memory is better:  I remembered the
New Yorker appearance.)

Joel

At 2/9/2007 12:08 PM, you wrote:
>On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>>Isn't there a New Yorker cartoon?  Someone with the CD might be able
>>to look it up.
>
>Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my post that started this thread.  The Yale
>Book of Quotations traces "take me to your leader" to a New Yorker cartoon
>by Alex Graham, 21 Mar. 1953, in which two extraterrestrials, with a
>flying saucer parked in the field behind them, say to a horse: "Kindly
>take us to your President!"
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
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