"SUCCESS: Something that always comes faster to the man your wife almost married” is a saying about success that was printed in a 1958 newspaper. “Success is something that always comes faster to the man your wife almost married” was printed in a 1960 newspaper. Authorship is unknown.
29 July 1958, The Daily Reporter (Dover, OH), pg. 2, col. 4:
SUCCESS: Something that always comes faster to the man your wife almost married.
22 June 1959, McComb (MS) Enterprise-Journal, “So This Is a Joke,” pg. 6, col. 8:
Success: Something that always comes faster to the man your wife almost married.
15 December 1959, Harlan (IA) News-Advertiser, “Short Takes,” pg. 2, col. 1:
BETCHA DIDN’T KNOW…
(...)
...success always comes faster to the man your wife almost married.
21 April 1960, The Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AR), “It’s Been Said Dept.,” pg. 6, col. 3:
Success is something that always comes faster to the man your wife almost married.
3 October 1967, Durham (NC) Sun, “Office Cat,” pg. 4, col. 6:
Success always comes faster to the man your wife almost married.
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Success is something that always comes faster to the man your wife almost married.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
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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