Word: planalp
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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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...
Though the evidence is not yet complete, it seems safe to conclude that Mr. Planalp exaggerated; that in each of the 110 millions of people in the U. S., there is more than one person whose surname is a perfect, proper palindrome...
...help back Manager Planalp off the stage with his boast of a name-in-a-million (TIME, Aug. 16) I am bringing up the name of a cousin in Mississippi with surname and given name reversible: MARY BYRAM...
...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...
...think Mr. Baab, as is Mr. Planalp, is a Swiss...