Some people in sports—especially golfers—are known to be terrible dressers. “How many more bathroom-window curtains must die needlessly to clothe golfers?” was credited to Mike Lough in 1996. “How many shower curtains had to die for that suit?” was said about someone in professional wrestling in 2002. “Jesus, how many shower curtains had to die for Danny Shelton’s shirt” was said in 2015 about American football player Danny Shelton.
26 March 1996, The Brazosport Facts (Clute, TX), “Celebrity Cipher” by Luis Campos, pg. 3B, col. 6:
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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