Fame
The headline is one of a handful that have entered the lore of journalism, as described in this essay by longtime Associated Press reporter Hugh Mulligan:
| “ | Down the years, some of journalism’s most famous headlines have brilliantly suggested what happened and have coaxed the reader to find out more:
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Mulligan got three of the four headlines wrong, including the "Stix" headline: The 1975 New York Daily News headline was actually "Ford to City: Drop Dead". The April 15, 1983 New York Post headline was: "Headless Body in Topless Bar".
He is one of many who have misquoted the "Stix" headline over the years. It is often misquoted with all four words ending in X. That misspelling appeared in the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy, in which George M. Cohan (played by James Cagney) explains the headline's meaning to several young people, who use it as the basis of an impromptu swing song.
Read more about this topic: Sticks Nix Hick Pix
Famous quotes containing the word fame:
“Today one does not hear much about him.... The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“It is remarkable that the dead lie everywhere under stones.... Why should the monument be so much more enduring than the fame which it is designed to perpetuate,—a stone to a bone? “Here lies,”M”Here lies”;Mwhy do they not sometimes write, There rises? Is it a monument to the body only that is intended?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)