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...most eligible bachelors-beautiful women. Almost anything can touch off a new interest: irritated one day at the way his matches blew out in the wind while he tried to light a cigarette, he designed a match that could not be blown out (by cutting a slot below the matchhead for air currents to pass through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: The Yankee Tinkerers | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

...face full of Jewish flesh and ingenuity would have beamed forth over a nightmarish mechanical design-the canary cries, watering the sensitive plant, which blushes, warming the matchhead, which ignites, inspiring the cat to commit suicide. In this case a high-grade bellboy might have been able to name the handsome patron: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg. The desk clerk could probably have named Mr. Goldberg's companions: Cartoonists Clare Briggs and Bud Fisher. . . . The first formal and annual dinner of the Cartoonists of America was a large event in a circle where events are not numerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wows | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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