[Ads-l] ripped from today's headlines

[Jonathan Lighter]

Formerly an indispensable movie-ad cliche.

Earliest?

1949 _Seattle Daily Times_ (Dec. 13) 22: Ripped from today's
headlines...sensational expose' of modern cattle rustling! "Tough
Assignment" Don Barry  Marjorie Steele  Steve Brodie.

My suspicion is that the phrase first appeared in a movie trailer slightly
before it showed up in a newspaper.

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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