Remembering …

… DownWithTyranny!: Introducing "Will Cuppy Tonight". (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In 1950 a group of V.I.P. wives was taken on a tour of NATO headquarters in Europe. Entering Dwight D. Eisenhower's office, they saw a single book lying on an otherwise empty desk, evidently a work of profound importance that consoled or inspired the Commander in Chief as he searched for a path to world peace. The book's rather disconcerting title was The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody.

Will Cuppy was born on this date in 1884.