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July 3, 1960 Show - "Have you seen in the current—in
the current New York Times book review section, there's a big review
on a dictionary of slang. Have you seen that? Well, there's a big
review. It's the cover review as a matter of fact. Well, I'll
tell you, I feel like I've really made it now. I mean, I've really
made it. And you know it—I never would have dreamed, when I was a
kid that this could ever possibly have happened. I have made the
dictionary. I'm serious. I am in the dictionary. On page 130 of the
new slang dictionary. Wentworth and Flexner's Dictionary of American
Slang."
"That I—I have contributed a word that has become part
of American slang. It's a great feeling, you know, that you really
have—somehow—affected your—you know, your time, your country, and
I—I'm telling you —this is a true story…. Any of you old listeners
who might possibly think you know what phrase it was, give us a
call, and we'll award the brass figlagee with bronze oak leaf palm.
What a fantastic feeling it is to know that you're in the
dictionary, you know?!"
Courtesy of Gene Bergmann
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