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...share in New York. It was, ironically, part of a documentary series that has been booted off all three commercial networks for lack of audience appeal. Jennie, a PBS import about Winston Churchill's mother, has done better in some significant urban areas than a lot of network Gorgonzola. If we ever had a stable, well-managed and well-financed public broadcasting system in the U.S., one capable of building a coherent, dependable schedule, the commercial broadcasters' status might be permanently affected...
...friends Ring Lardner, Will Rogers and Charlie Chaplin. His grand subjects were the quirks of everyday life, things like the difficulty of navigating through revolving doors.or reading a medical thermometer. But Rube Goldberg's zany imagination and zippy drawing style really blossomed with the Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts-those incredible falling domino devices that poke fun at the complex concatenations of modern technology by deploying sleepy dogs, melting ice, steam whistles and levers to light a cigar in an open car going 50 m.p.h. or pluck the cotton wadding out of a pill bottle...
...funds to help homeowners convert their oil heating systems -which now belch sulfur oxides into the air-to nonpolluting methane gas. The switch is necessary because the sulfurous fumes mix with the salty air and rot Venice's marble balconies and statues, causing the stone to crumble like Gorgonzola cheese...
...that sets many men to looking wistfully ahead toward retirement, Reuben Lucius Goldberg embarked on a new career. Into limbo he chucked Boob McNutt, Mike and Ike -They Look Alike, and Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, the not-so-mad inventor who gave the world such useful devices as the stamp-licking machine. In the next 26 years, Rube Goldberg produced some 5,000 editorial cartoons. But his heart was never really in his work. And last week, at 80 - an age that sets most men to peering wistfully back toward their youth - Goldberg embarked on a new career...
...Carthy's defense. Some held a middle view, as did Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, who, by implication, praised Joe's works while decrying his ways. The bishop's parable: "It may very well be in any home that a man may set a rat trap with Gorgonzola cheese . . . Many in the home are dissatisfied with the Gorgonzola because it smells up the place. They should prefer to see Swiss cheese . . . put into the trap. But let no one confuse a process with a crime, and if the Gorgonzola is smelling up the house, then change the cheese...