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In God We Trust - All Others Pay Cash

Jean Shepherd October 14, 1966
Doubleday

ISBN #0-385-02174-7

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Published in 1966, this was Shep's first book wich was a collection of the short stories he wrote for Playboy magazine. "The Endless Streetcar Ride Into The Night, And The Tinfoil Noose" was reprinted in 1976 in "Outlooks Through Literature" by James L. Pittman and Edmund James Pierce. ************************************************ "Too bad Schwartz couldn't have been here," I said. Flick grunted, busy with his change counting. We both knew that Schwartz had been shot down over Italy. They never found him. The above text appears in the last chapter. An interesting note that in the movie, "Great American Fourth of July" during the 'blind date' scene, Shep and his blind date Pamela, Schwartz and his date Clara Mae, are watching the movie "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing". Clara Mae says to Schwartz "This is so romantic. It's just like us." In the movie William Holden and Jennifer Jones fall in love and Holden goes off to war and never returns and in real life Schwartz goes off to war and never returns. IGWT was made available in audio form as part of the "Talking Books" service provided by the NLS

Additional Comments:

- We Meet Flick, The Friendly Bartender

- "Duel in the Snow, or Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid"

- Flick Fails to Recall an Old Song

- "The Counterfeit Secret Circle Member Gets the Message, or The Asp Strikes Again"

- I Poke At An Old Wound

- "The Endless Streetcar Ride into The Night, and the Tinfoil Noose" (The 'Blind Date' story)

- Flick Offers Me Hard Liquor

- "Hairy Gertz And The Forty-Seven Crappies"

- I Introduce Flick to the Art World

- "My Old Man and the Lascivious Special Award The Heralded The Birth of Pop Art"

- Flick Makes an Artistic Judgment

- "The Magic Mountain"  (Going to the World's Fair and going on the Magic Mountain)

- "Flick Dredges Up A Notorious Son Of A Bitch"

- "Grover Dill and the Tasmanian Devil" 

- Flick Displays a Petty Jealous Streak

- "Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb that Struck Back"

- I Show Off

- "Uncle Ben and the Side-splitting Knee-slapper, or Some Words Are Loaded" 

- We Have Two Small Visitors
 
- "Old Man Pulaski and the Infamous Jaw Breaker Blackmail Caper"

21- Enter Friendly Fred

- "The Perfect Crime"

- Flick Baits the Hook

- "Wilbur Duckworth and The Magic Baton"

- I Relate the Strange Tale of the Human Hypodermic Needle

- "Miss Bryfogel and the Frightening Case of the Speckle-throated Cuckold"  (Playboy - Aug 1966)

- Polka Time

- " 'Nevermore', Quoth the Assessor, 'Nevermore...' " (Used in the movie "My Summer Story")

- The Posse Rides Again

- "Leopold Doppler and the Great Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot" (Playboy - October 1965, used in the movie "Phantom of the Open Hearth", Slice # 4 of the Shepherd's Pie Tape Collection)

- The Day Shift Drops By For A Belt

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Category	Date	Title	Comments	Time
• People		Breyfogol, Miss
• Radio		They Walk in Square Corners
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Red Ryder Nails the Hammond Kid
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Daphne Bigelow and the Spine-Chilling Saga of the Snail-Encrusted Tin-Foil Noose
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Hairy Gertz And The 47 Crappies
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Grover Dill And The Tasmanian Devil
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Ludlow Kissel And The Dago Bomb That Struck Back
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Old Man Pulaski And The Infamous Jawbreaker Blackmail
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Waldo Grebb And His Electric Baton
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Miss Bryfogal And The Case of The Warbling Cuckold
• Short Stories and Columns by Shep		Leopold Doppler And The Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot
• Movies		A Christmas Story

Where Shep Made Reference To This Subject:

Time	Date	Category	Title
	December 11, 1983	Article	Have You Heard About Shepherd
	December 5, 1987	Article	What If . . .?
	February 19, 1967	Article	Jean Shepherd Plugs His Book, Entertains His Fans
		Article	Maybe It Lost Something in the Transition
	1987	Books	Outlooks and Insights
	1976	Books	Outlooks Through Literature
	1976	Books	The Responsible Person
		Live Shows	Women's Club of the Cathedral of the Incarnation
		Plots / Story Lines	Crappies
	January 27, 1966	Radio	Studs Terkel's Wax Museum with Jean Shepherd
	September 19, 1966	Radio	In God We Trust
	October 14, 1967	Radio	Judgment Day / Book Report for Miss Bryfogel
	July 4, 1973	Radio	Ludlow Kissell and the Dago Bomb
	December 25, 1973	Radio	Duel In The Snow
• 23:27	May 7, 1975	Radio	Kid Jokes
	November 2, 1962	Radio	They Walk in Square Corners
	January 26, 1966	Radio	Studs Terkel's Wax Museum with Jean Shepherd

Links to Further Information:

• Talking Book