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A fact from Helen Essary appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 January2026(check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Helen Essary said Thomas E. Dewey's mustache made him look less like a plausible president of the United States?
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Source: "While the maxim was attributed to Alice, she regularly denied having formulated it. Not until 1968 was her confusion about how she came to be credited with it cleared up, when she received a letter revealing the true author. Isabel Kinnear Griffin wrote to say that twenty years earlier she was 'working with Helen Essary Murphy on the Democratic Digest, [a] publication of the Democratic National Committee.' An 'unflattering picture' of Dewey that needed a caption prompted Murphy to pop out with 'He looks just like the little man on the wedding cake!' The two women loved the line so much they didn't want to it to go unnoticed and felt the Democratic Digest was not a large enough forum.... 'At the British Embassy reception that afternoon, we asked each person we met: "Is it true Alice Longworth said Governor Dewey looks like the little man on the wedding cake?" As we had anticipated, it spread like wildfire, only now it became: "Have you heard Alice Longworth's description of Governor Dewey?"'" Stacy A. Cordery, Alice, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Alice/spNPEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA424&printsec=frontcover
ALT1: ... that Helen Essary(pictured) said Thomas E. Dewey's mustache made him look less like a plausible president of the United States? Source: "After attending the Republican National Convention in Chicago that July, Helen Essary, a syndicated political columnist, declared herself impressed by Dewey's intelligence and courage but hopeful that the candidate would get himself to a barber right away... 'You see only the mustache. You remember only the mustache. Without it, Governor Dewey would look a million per cent more real as a proper man for the White House job he is after.'" Christopher Oldstone-Moore, Of Beards and Men, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Of_Beards_and_Men/Bp7iCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA232&printsec=frontcover
Moved to mainspace by Dclemens1971(talk).
Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 27 past nominations.
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Interesting article, nice work. ALT1 is interesting and I approve it. 1brianm7 (talk) 15:31, 30 October 2025 (UTC)
Regrettably marking this for rejection per WP:DYKTIMEOUT as it has been approved for two months without promotion. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:29, 31 December 2025 (UTC)