Mudcat Café message #2243096

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Thread #107953 Message #2243096
Posted By: bobad
23-Jan-08 - 04:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Fred Thompson drops out of the race
Subject: RE: BS: Fred Thompson drops out of the race

Amos, regarding your post:

The recently published Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press) has the following:

[When told of the death of Calvin Coolidge:] How can they tell?
Wilson Mizner, Quoted in Esquire, July 1938. Often credited to Dorothy Parker, but the 1938 Mizner attribution predates the earliest Parker attribution (1944) found.