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This exhibition resides at Harvard as a gift from the private collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward...
...currently the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow in Public Policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University...
Edward T. McAvoy, production designer of the 1999 film Office Space, was pondering ways to accessorize that film's geeky character Milton and latched onto a stapler. He wondered, What could I do as a designer to make this stapler special so as to justify Milton's need to possess it and the bosses' need to covet it? He decided to make it fire-engine red. "I called Swingline and said, 'Do you make a red stapler?' and they said no," McAvoy recalls. "And I said, 'Well, do you mind if I use your logo on the side...
...says he was intrigued by the photographs of Milton Rogovin, who shot the lower west side of Buffalo, a working-class neighborhood...
...covering the Yankees for 50 years. His prose is the quintessence of the newspaper school of sportswriting--he can epitomize a player with a single swing of the pen, as it were. If you're wondering how that's done, consider his 18-word skewering of Yankees centerfielder John Milton ("Mickey") Rivers: "He may well be the only person named for John Milton who has never heard of John Milton...