On the television show This Is Show Business, a youthful Eddie Fisher complained that girls refused to date him because of his age, and he asked playwright George S. Kaufman for advice. Here is Kaufman’s reply:
Mr. Fisher, on Mount Wilson there is a telescope that can magnify the most distant stars up to twenty-four times the magnification of any previous telescope. This remarkable instrument was unsurpassed in the world of astronomy until the construction of the Mount Palomar telescope, an even more remarkable instrument of magnification. Owing to advances and improvements in optical technology, it is capable of magnifying the stars to four times the magnification and resolution of the Mount Wilson telescope.
Mr. Fisher, if you could somehow put the Mount Wilson telescope inside the Mount Palomar telescope, you still wouldn’t be able to detect my interest in your problem.
Remarkably, Mr. Kaufman’s statement precisely encapsulates SLL’s interest in a 2016 election featuring Hillary Clinton and any of the leading Republican candidates.
