Problem with citation for Dorothy Parker quote in the Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations

[Victor Steinbok]

This is just idle curiosity, but, since you had the text, what was
Mizner's version of the joke?

     VS-)

On 2/22/2011 2:31 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
> ... I was unable to locate the quotation in
> these columns when I visually scanned the text. Also, I was unable to
> match the quote when using the OCR based full text search in the
> online New Yorker archive.
> ...
>
> 22 Why, I never even knew that he was alive. [On being told that
> ex-President Coolidge had died. Quoted in ib. Similar joke ascribed to
> Wilson Mizner in A. Johnston;  Legend of a Sport; the New Yorker]
>
> ...

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