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"A: Would you sleep with me for $1,000,000? B: ...YES! A: How about $1? B: What do you think I am?"

— George Bernard Shaw

January 1, 1970

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[...] In January 1937 the syndicated newspaper columnist O. O. McIntyre printed a version of the anecdote that he says was sent to him as a newspaper clipping. This tale featured a powerful Canadian-British media magnate and politician named Max Aitken who was also referred to as Lord Beaverbrook [MJLB]": — Someone sends me a clipping from Columnist Lyons with this honey: — They are telling this of Lord Beaverbrook and a visiting Yankee actress. In a game of hypothetical questions, Beaverbrook a