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Shame on America. How she has lost her manners in the last century! It's a good thing the French gave us the Statue of Liberty in 1886. Today, we might have melted down the Bartholdi-Eiffel masterpiece and tossed her into a scrap metals heap 10 days after dedication. That's how Americans treat gifts...
...started to wear shirts and ties and pinstripe suits, because he figured they were looking to become corporate creeps, as he would call them." The money saved on wardrobe went to subsidize Gaines' various follies, including restaurant feasts, his collection of small-scale Statues of Liberty (including one of Bartholdi's original models, which he bought for $104,000) and his annual junkets abroad for Mad's editors and contributors...
...which he marketed under the name of Vin Mariani. Mariani collected endorsements from Popes Leo XIII and Pius X, President McKinley and the Kings of Spain, Greece, and Norway and Sweden, as well as such literary luminaries as Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas and Emile Zola. French Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, designer of the Statue of Liberty, swore that if he had only savored Vin Mariani earlier, he would have built the old girl hundreds of meters higher...
...just shipped the Statue of Liberty (in 200-odd cases) to the U.S. The plot concerns a circulation war over the statue between Joseph Pulitzer's N.Y. World and James Gordon Bennett's N.Y. Herald. A Herald photographer brings over from Paris the girl who was Sculptor Bartholdi's model for the statue-only it turns out that she wasn't. The customary hocus-pocus leads to the customary happy ending...
...Statue of Liberty was sculptured in Paris by Alsatian Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, shipped to the U.S. in sections...