Word: otto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concerning names-in-a-million, TIME of Aug. 30 is clearly right. Mr. Planalp, Mr. Staats, Mary Byram, Otto Baab, Otto Egge and others have proven that "there is more than one person whose surname is a perfect, proper palindrome." Therefore some else must claim the name-in-a-million...
...Mayville, N. D., a small town of about a thousand inhabitants (formerly my home), there lives a man by the name of Otto Egge. Both names are reversible. That ought to be a "name-in-a-good-many- million!" . . . By the way, as one who each week reads your magazine from cover to cover, let me also add my hymn of praise to the swelling chorus...
...Planalp (TIME, Aug. 16) isn't the only one. There used to be a piano dealer in Springfield, Mass., named Otto Baab, whose mail came to him often simply addressed as follows...
...Berlin last week a further manifestation of post-War pacifism came to light with the opening of a great anti-War exhibit, featuring mammoth pacifist cartoons by virile German Trench-Artist Otto...
...cities in the U. S., but I've never yet met anyone-with the exception of members of my own family, who can spell the surname backwards and forwards with the same result." Idlers suggested appropriate names for Mr. Planalp's children: Ada, Bob, Lil, Anna, Hannah, Otto. They could call Mr. Planalp "Pop," one jester added. . . . Manhattanites reflected that Mr. Planalp should some day call on James Leffel of 39 Courtland Street, their city; Philadelphians took satisfaction from the 16 double-actioned Reber families listed in their telephone book; San Francisco was complacent with six taxpayers named...