[Ads-l] No such thing as bad publicity.

[Shapiro, Fred]

The New Yale Book of Quotations has a positive version, "all publicity is good publicity," from 1910.

Fred Shapiro

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1920 Norfolk [Neb.] Press (Sept. 16) 2 [Newspapers.com]: Once upon time
Norris A. Huse [1882-1937, organizer of United Features Syndicate]
remarked: "All publicity is good. Even bad publicity is better than no
publicity."

1926 Adventure (Oct. 23) 121 [Int. Arch.]: There's no such thing as bad
publicity.

1929 Sunday People (London) (Dec. 22) 9 [Newspapers.com]  From [film star]
Pola Negri['s] point of view there's no such thing as bad publicity.

1934 N.Y. Post (Oct. 29) 11 [GenealogyBank]: [International adventuress
Lola Montez] went on the theory that there is no such thing as bad
publicity.

 JL

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