[Ads-l] Veepstakes (very slight antedating)

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

Nothing really of note here, but the topic seemed timely.

Barry Popik, cc'd here, has a 13 May 1952 example of "veepstakes." It
appeared in Earl Wilson's column and in its headline that day.

https://barrypopik.com/blog/veepstakes_veep_sweepstakes

The same column had appeared in The New York Post just a few days
earlier. (If Wilson didn't coin "veepstakes," he certainly did a lot
to popularize the term.)

-- Bonnie

Sure, we elect a Boss Man, too. But give me the Veepstakes for the
laughs. [Earl Wilson, "It Happened Last Night: Veepstakes to Be Fun,
With Hartman Helping," New York Post, 9 May 1952, p. 17;
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A169638E7A0BEAD17%40GB3NEWS-179A50E7F76D3BEB%402434142-179A499C81F369ED%4016-179A499C81F369ED?clipid=umoqjhgcregoputvquektndoljqozxpj_ip-10-166-46-159_1722868833617.]

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