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...paint was waning, and journalism caught his grasshopperish interest. In 1845, while working as an electroplater in New York, he launched the Scientific American, mainly to have a showcase for his ideas. He served as editor, wrote most of the early articles, and liberally sprinkled the magazine with the Rube Goldberg-esque diagrams that he made for his machines. But within a year of its founding, he sold it. He had an idea for a rifle with a revolving chamber and foolishly sold it to Samuel Colt of Hartford for $100. In 1849, Porter tried to promote...
...characters in a dozen directions at once. It is set against the backdrop of a fair, which was the closest thing the E?zabethans had to a trip. Senelick's got to make all the pieces fit together without letting the gears lock altogether and have the whole delicate Rube Goldberg design collapse. As a comedy, BARTHOLOMEW FAIR is something of a wild creature. As the director. Senelick must find a way to cage it without killing...
SETTLED in the middle of lower Manhattan's 19th century manufacturing district is a loft-theater where two artists are doing things with television and videotape that you have never seen on the rube...
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...