"How much justice can you afford?" New Yorker cartoon

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Maybe Fred Shapiro has tracked this "How much justice can you afford?"  
phrase further.
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_http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/arts/26handelsman.html?adxnnl=1&ref=obituar
ies&adxnnlx=1182832931-Bl/zePDojFVpRbso3zyo5Q_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/arts/26handelsman.html?adxnnl=1&ref=obituaries&adxnnlx=1182832931-Bl/zePDo
jFVpRbso3zyo5Q) 
J.B. Handelsman, 85, New Yorker Cartoonist, Is Dead 
 
By _MARGALIT FOX_ 
(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/margalit_fox/index.html?inline=nyt-per) 
Published: June 26, 2007
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J. B. Handelsman, a noted cartoonist whose work appeared in The New Yorker  
over the course of four and a half decades, died on Wednesday at his home in  
Southampton, N.Y. He was 85. 
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The cause was lung cancer, his family said. 
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>From 1961 to 2006, Mr. Handelsman had nearly a thousand cartoons published in 
 The New Yorker. His work also appeared regularly in Playboy and the British  
satirical magazine Punch. 
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Mr. Handelsman’s visual style was characterized by its simplicity of line;  
his captions, known for their dry but no less biting wit, offered incisive  
commentaries on modern manners. One of his New Yorker cartoons depicts a maître  d
’hôtel taking a reservation over the telephone. The caption: “Certainly. A  
party of four at seven-thirty in the name of Dr. Jennings. May I ask whether  
that is an actual medical degree or a Ph.D.?” 
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Another shows a lawyer meeting with his client. “You have a pretty good case, 
 Mr. Pitkin,” the lawyer says. “How much justice can you  afford?”



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