Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soapy, five-a-week masterwork (now on CBS, Mon.-Fri., 1:45-2 p.m., E.W.T.) for Procter & Gamble. It has been hard work, paid for by $5,000 a week. Mrs. Berg, who started at $50 a week, also produces, directs and plays the leading lady (Molly) of her Goldberg saga. Now 42 and a millionairess, Mrs. Berg has a ten-room duplex in Manhattan, an estate in Bedford Hills...
Baird and Engler contrived to do all their war work without one penny of Government funds for new equipment. When they needed new machines they rigged up their own Rube Goldberg contraptions (Baird is proudest of a crane he made out of pulleys', sash cords and weights from Texas Washer windows). They bought their materials jointly, ran production lines from one plant into the other. Recently they were thrilled to hear that they were due for an Army-Navy E to reward their joint efforts (the first dual plant award in the U.S. and the first Ordnance award...
...Vogel of Erwin, Tenn., Issie Goldberg of New York and Ed Sipowsky of Waukegan, Ill. flew a Navy plane, fought together, and died together in a crash at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Last week in Santurce they were buried side-by-side in a service that exemplified America: a Protestant chaplain read the service for Lieut. Vogel, a Catholic priest for Machinist's Mate Sipowsky, a Jewish rabbi for Issie Goldberg of aviation ordnance...
...course, the 'Poon's Rube Goldberg has yet to operate his steamobile, but he expects to drive it down here next weekend after completing the welding at his Dublin, N. H., home...
What emerged from this tussle with paper and pencil is a startling but not unhandsome combination of a fencer's mask and a Rube Goldberg ashtray...