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In God We Trust - All Others Pay Cash

Jean Shepherd October 1966
Doubleday

ISBN #0-385-02174-7

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Published in 1966, this was Shep's first book wich was a collection of the short stories he wrote for Playboy magazine. "The Endless Streetcar Ride Into The Night, And The Tinfoil Noose" was reprinted in 1976 in "Outlooks Through Literature" by James L. Pittman and Edmund James Pierce. ************************************************ "Too bad Schwartz couldn't have been here," I said. Flick grunted, busy with his change counting. We both knew that Schwartz had been shot down over Italy. They never found him. The above text appears in the last chapter. An interesting note that in the movie, "Great American Fourth of July" during the 'blind date' scene, Shep and his blind date Pamela, Schwartz and his date Clara Mae, are watching the movie "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing". Clara Mae says to Schwartz "This is so romantic. It's just like us." In the movie William Holden and Jennifer Jones fall in love and Holden goes off to war and never returns and in real life Schwartz goes off to war and never returns. IGWT was made available in audio form as part of the "Talking Books" service provided by the NLS

Additional Comments:

- We Meet Flick, The Friendly Bartender

- "Duel in the Snow, or Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid"

- Flick Fails to Recall an Old Song

- "The Counterfeit Secret Circle Member Gets the Message, or The Asp Strikes Again"

- I Poke At An Old Wound

- "The Endless Streetcar Ride into The Night, and the Tinfoil Noose" (The 'Blind Date' story)

- Flick Offers Me Hard Liquor

- "Hairy Gertz And The Forty-Seven Crappies"

- I Introduce Flick to the Art World

- "My Old Man and the Lascivious Special Award The Heralded The Birth of Pop Art"

- Flick Makes an Artistic Judgment

- "The Magic Mountain"  (Going to the World's Fair and going on the Magic Mountain)

- "Flick Dredges Up A Notorious Son Of A Bitch"

- "Grover Dill and the Tasmanian Devil" 

- Flick Displays a Petty Jealous Streak

- "Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb that Struck Back"

- I Show Off

- "Uncle Ben and the Side-splitting Knee-slapper, or Some Words Are Loaded" 

- We Have Two Small Visitors
 
- "Old Man Pulaski and the Infamous Jaw Breaker Blackmail Caper"

21- Enter Friendly Fred

- "The Perfect Crime"

- Flick Baits the Hook

- "Wilbur Duckworth and The Magic Baton"

- I Relate the Strange Tale of the Human Hypodermic Needle

- "Miss Bryfogel and the Frightening Case of the Speckle-throated Cuckold"  (Playboy - Aug 1966)

- Polka Time

- " 'Nevermore', Quoth the Assessor, 'Nevermore...' " (Used in the movie "My Summer Story")

- The Posse Rides Again

- "Leopold Doppler and the Great Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot" (Playboy - October 1965, used in the movie "Phantom of the Open Hearth", Slice # 4 of the Shepherd's Pie Tape Collection)

- The Day Shift Drops By For A Belt

Related Plots and Story Lines Used

Category	Date	Title	Comments	Time
• People		Breyfogol, Miss
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Ludlow Kissel And The Dago Bomb That Struck Back
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Waldo Grebb And His Electric Baton
• Movies		A Christmas Story
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Red Ryder Nails the Hammond Kid
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Leopold Doppler And The Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Old Man Pulaski And The Infamous Jawbreaker Blackmail
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Hairy Gertz And The 47 Crappies
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Daphne Bigelow and the Spine-Chilling Saga of the Snail-Encrusted Tin-Foil Noose
• Radio		They Walk in Square Corners
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Miss Bryfogal And The Case of The Warbling Cuckold
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Grover Dill And The Tasmanian Devil

Where Shep Made Reference To This Subject

Category	Date	Title	Time
• Article	December 11, 1983	Have You Heard About Shepherd
• Article	December 5, 1987	What If . . .?
• Article	February 19, 1967	Jean Shepherd Plugs His Book, Entertains His Fans
• Books	1987	Outlooks and Insights
• Books	1976	Outlooks Through Literature
• Books	1976	The Responsible Person
• Plots / Story Lines		Crappies
• Radio	January 27, 1966	Studs Terkel's Wax Museum with Jean Shepherd
• Radio	September 19, 1966	In God We Trust
• Radio	October 14, 1967	Judgment Day / Book Report for Miss Bryfogel
• Radio	July 4, 1973	Ludlow Kissell and the Dago Bomb
• Radio	December 25, 1973	Duel In The Snow
• Radio	November 2, 1962	They Walk in Square Corners
• Radio	January 26, 1966	Studs Terkel's Wax Museum with Jean Shepherd

Links to Further Information:

• Talking Book

Photos:

October 07,1966
In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash photo

October 23,1966
IGWT NY Times Ad

Courtesy: Gene Bergmann

1967
In God We Trust - Papaerback Release

1972
In God We Trust - Papaerback Release

2000
In God We Trust - Papaerback Release

October 1966
Disarm the Toy Industry Pin

October 1966
In God We Trust - Large Print Release

October 1966
In God We Trust - Autographed

Courtesy: Marco Ciavolino

October 1966
In God We Trust - Autographed

Courtesy: Richard Rogers

December 11,1966
Chicago Tribune

Courtesy: Steve Glazer

October 24,1969
Letter from Shep to Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle School

Courtesy: Steve Glazer

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975