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...Gelett Burgess...
Died. (Frank) Gelett Burgess, 85, gently satirical humorist, author of more than 30 books of verse and essays; of a heart attack; in Carmel, Calif. He first won fame for his jingle about a purple cow, which so caught the nation's fancy that he wrote another quatrain threatening death to the next man who recited The Purple Cow in his presence.* For more than half a century he kept a large audience laughing with his poems, literary satires and essays which he illustrated himself (Are You a Bromide?; Look Eleven Years Younger) and his word definitions (Burgess Unabridged...
M.I.T. has become a place for differential analyzers, spectro-photometers, oscillographs and thryatron tubes. Out of its laboratories it has managed to produce such unexpected specimens as Humorist Gelett Burgess and Author Stuart Chase. But M.I.T.'s alumni are more apt to be of another sort: Donald Douglas of Douglas Aircraft, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors, Gerard Swope of General Electric, and at least ten Du Fonts...
Referred to by the New York Times as "late," Humorist Gelett Burgess, 76, sent a letter to the editor, protesting that he was "almost never late," on the contrary "noted for my promptness...
While Seasoned Cooks Ben Butler, Gelett Burgess, Ole ("Hellzapoppin") Olsen, and Rube Goldberg looked on, ex-Congressman Bruce Barton thrust a spoonful of his best spaghetti between the large lips of Illustrator Arthur William Brown, which thereupon smacked noisily, made other sounds indicating that Adman Barton had proved himself worthy of membership in Manhattan's Society of Amateur Chefs...