Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/1/2010 12:18 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
>I think that the teaching materials at the Harvard University Archives
>are a good location to look for an antedating as you suggest.

Oh dear.  And I suppose I'm targeted because I took Oettinger's
class.  Perhaps I can get excused if I claim I didn't actually see
the adage until the 1966 Scientific American article.  Fred, do you
have a paid flunky with access to the Harvard Archives?

Joel

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