Word: rubes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Samuel Earl ("Wahoo Sam") Crawford, 88, baseball's turn-of-the-century Hall of Fame outfielder who set slugging records in the difficult days of Christy Mathewson, Rube Waddell and the dead ball; of a stroke; in Hollywood. "Now the game is all different," complained the Wahoo, Neb., whiz. "Then it was strategy and quick thinking, and if you didn't play with your noodle you didn't play at all." Through 19 years in both major leagues, Wahoo Sam hit enough balls that were lopsided, soaped, sanded and tobacco-stained to win league home...
Here's how it works: start with Rube Goldberg, 84 (A), who 60 years ago became one of the country's top cartoonists (B), made his name part of the language with those whimsical inventions (C), helped found the National Cartoonists Society in 1945 (D), the members of which then named its highest award for excellence, "the Reuben," after Goldberg (E), which was then presented to leading cartoonists annually (F), and finally last week was presented to Goldberg himself (G), who retired from cartooning five years ago to begin a new career in sculpting...
...Last December the temperature in three hospital sections fell to 39 in the daytime. . . . The superintendent and his men brought in a hay dryer from the barn, rigged it up Rube Goldberg style, and this helped push hot air to the sections involved . . . water coming into the hospital has been found to be polluted...
...FABULOUS FUNNIES (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A gallery of comic-strip characters-including Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Prince Valiant and Dick Tracy-leaps onto the TV screen in song-and-dance routines, animated episodes and interviews with such cartoonists as Al Capp, Milton Caniff, Charles Schulz and Rube Goldberg. Carl Reiner is the host...
When the world beats a path to his door, the run-of-the-garret inventor is apt to be about as calm as a Rube Goldberg machine going double time. Denmark's Karl Kroyer is a different sort. Last week, shortly after New York's Martin Marietta Corp. snapped up the rights to make a Kroyer-patented, skid-resistant highway surface called Syno-pal in the U.S., the Dane seemed downright bored. "To make an invention is an intoxication," said he. "But the rest -to make it work, start production and complete negotiations-is one big hangover...