Tourists from Florida Reach New Mexico (for an elderly aunt)

Bartlett preserved neither in the protective amber of his anthology of quotations. Despite this, they remain alive. "Pay the two dollars" found its way into the dialogue of the 1959 Hitchcock movie North by Northwest. Cary Grant, charged with drunk driving and other crimes, professes innocence. His mother, Jessie Royce Landis, disgusted over it all, advises, "Pay the two dollars." Of course the cream of the jest was when "Pay the two dollars" suddenly injected itself into the presidential press conference. It is just too useful a concept to disappear entirely. It continues to intrude at the most unexpected times and places, much like the ghost of Akaky Akakievitch as it grabs an overcoat off the back of an astonished senior office manager of a very important government bu-