antedating of Grantland Rice quote

[Jonathan Lighter]

Like others, YBQ dates sportswriter Grantland Rice's most famous lines to
1930:

"All wars are planned by old men
In council rooms apart."

However, Rice's poem, "The Two Sides of War," appeared nine years earlier in
the New York Tribune (March 26, 1921), p. 11. In that version, the phrase in
line one is "older men."

The poem was accurately reprinted the following day in the Wichita Daily
Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Sec. I, p. 12.



JL



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