tragedy plus time (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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The Steve Allen quote appears a few days earlier in the _Bakersfield
Californian_ 7/21/1958 p. 21 col 1 (Newspaperarchive)

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> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
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> > This is usually attributed to Carol Burnett or Woody Allen, but both
of
> those
> > attributions are probably apocryphal like the Twain one.  In 2004
Barry
> Popik
> > posted a citation from the early 1960s here, I believe.
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> From 1962:
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http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0403B&L=ADS-L&P=R10225
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> Steve Allen was quoted saying it in a July 25, 1958 UPI article:
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http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QMpCAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iKsMAAAAIBAJ&pg=7
195,11
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