[Ads-l] Antedating of "Rat Pack"

[Shapiro, Fred]

rat pack (OED, n.1 2.b., 1955)

1950 Daily News (Los Angeles) 31 July 15/4 (Newspapers.com)

Humphrey Bogart arrived for work in "The Enforcer" in a new English Bantam car and the crack: "Gable's got one — Gary Cooper's got one. We're the middle-aged hot rod club of the Beverly Hills Rat Pack."

Fred Shapiro



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