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To steer a course through history ... stay in the channel and keep out of the bayous, enchanting as they may be."
To steer a course through history ... stay in the channel and keep out of the bayous, enchanting as they may be."

To steer a course through history ... stay in the channel and keep out of the bayous, enchanting as they may be."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1957
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 5 3/8 × 12 1/16 in. (13.7 × 30.6 cm) Sheet: 5 3/8 × 12 1/16 in. (13.7 × 30.6 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.2146
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"You'll be all right in a few days. Just stay indoors, keep the windows closed, and stop reading the 'New York Times Air Pollution Index'."
Alan Dunn
1965
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"Don't worry. It's perfectly safe if used as directed. Just don't breathe the vapor or spraymist, avoid contact with the skin, keep the mist from your eyes, do not spray near a fire or open flame, store under a hundred and twenty degrees and out of the sun's rays, keep the can out of reach of children, and do not incinerate or puncture."
Alan Dunn
c 1966
"I was reading a history and I found out General Grant got to be a general from obscurity as bad as mine."
"I was reading a history and I found out General Grant got to be a general from obscurity as bad as mine."
Alan Dunn
1941
"If this deal goes through I wouldn't hire him as an office boy. So - he keeps his $45,000 salary and becomes a member of the board."
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"And, of course, easy time payments can be arranged through our finance company."
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"Keep an eye out for a green parachute--that's our lunch."
Alan Dunn
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"You stay out of this, Edgar! My quarrel is with the United Kingdom."
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1932
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"Stay tuned to this station - stay tuned to this station - stay the hell tuned to this station."
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"And all I have to do to stay this way is pat myself under the chin twenty times a day - "
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"Men, we're all a part of the greatest amphibious operation in history, and, believe me, this is a scene we here topside will never forget. I wish you fellows could see it - the sky dark with planes, our planes, and the water dotted to the horizon with craft of every description..."
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