Dallas Morning News article about Barry Popik

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

For those interested, there's a nice article about Barry Popik in today's (Sunday, March 28, 2010) The Dallas Mornning News, page 1, continued on page 12A).

Btw, I'm told the article has a picture of Barry in New York, on the corner of West 54th Street, where "The Big Apple" sign was put up (since removed). There in the photo he's shaking hands with David FitzGerald, the nephew of John J. FitzGerald; the latter Fitz Gerald was responsible for popularizing "the big apple" in reference to NYC racetracks, 1921ff. The picture doesn't appear in the link below, but still, the rest of the article does appear.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-popik_28ent.ART0.State.Edition2.4cc8b81.html

Barry's work on Americanisms has been extensive and extraordinary.

Gerald Cohen

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