[Ads-l] Request help Newsweek ProQuest for Frank Lloyd Wright quotation

Joel Berson berson at ATT.NET
Mon May 8 00:32:07 UTC 2017


I see all limbs atrophied save the (as Monk called it) bad finger.

Joel


      From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
 To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
 Sent: Sunday, May 7, 2017 7:53 PM
 Subject: Re: [ADS-L] Request help Newsweek ProQuest for Frank Lloyd Wright quotation
   
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:45 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Year: 1955
> Periodical: Newsweek
> Volume 45
> Quote Page 98 (Another GB match specifies page 436 which might be the
> count from the start of the volume)
>

Here's another partial citing a different source:

"If it [automation] keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the
push-button finger."The New York Times, November 27, 1955

http://www.quotationspage.com/special.php3?file=w980607

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