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To: IOWAfan

I understand F. Scott Fitzgerald made up the slogan "We keep you clean in Muscatine" for a dry cleaner's shop.

That might not have been his best writing.


17 posted on 03/11/2007 5:21:40 PM PDT by sine_nomine (The United States...shall protect each of them against invasion. Article IV, 4. US Constition)
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To: sine_nomine
"I understand F. Scott Fitzgerald made up the slogan "We keep you clean in Muscatine" for a dry cleaner's shop."

May have been a droll comment on the commonness of the Midwest small town experience.

He did say "The rich are not like us..."
To which Hemingway responded something like: "No. They have money."
26 posted on 03/11/2007 7:08:52 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission (Mid May's eldest child, the coming musk rose, murmurous haunt of flies on summer's eve...)
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