"What's not to love?"

Wed Oct 1 20:23:31 UTC 2014

JL wrote:
>Great work, G.

Thanks JL. Let me continue/extend this compliment to:
Great work, Stephen.

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> Yinglisher and Yinglisher=85  (Notwithstanding the attempt at =
> Cliffordization.)
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> LH
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> On Oct 1, 2014, at 7:19 AM, Stephen Goranson wrote:
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>> The 1949 use of "What's not to like?" was written by Eth Clifford, pen =
> name of Ethel Rosenberg. That's Ethel Clifford Rosenberg (born in NYC =
> Dec. 25, 1915), not to be confused with Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (born =
> in NYC Sept. 25, 1915 and executed in 1953).
>>=20
>> "Julius, with his jokes," his sister says....
>> "You like him," Mrs. Bender states.
>> "I like him," Mrs. Rivkin agrees. "What's not to like?"
>>=20
>>=20
>> Stephen Goranson
>> http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/
>>=20
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