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...Butler," a self-cleaning automatic coffeemaker that, at the touch of a button, brews and serves a cup of hot, fresh coffee in a matter of seconds. Produced by the Havajava Manufacturing Corp. of Glendale, Calif., makers of coin-operated coffee machines, the Butler operates like something in a Rube Goldberg dream...
...Russell) is the only U.S. high school to claim two Nobel prizewinners: Physicist Albert Michelson ('68), the first U.S. winner, and Physicist Joseph Erlanger ('90). Lowell's other alumni include such diverse notables as Actress Carol Channing, Paper Tycoon J. D. Zellerbach, Author Irving Stone, Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Baseball Player Jerry Coleman, the late Publisher (Washington Post) Eugene Meyer, Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, California Governor Pat Brown...
What words are locked in Thurber? There is rue and her (Thurber's battle of the sexes, of course); hurt (the battle does not go well); the rub (Walter Mitty playing Hamlet); rube (the author was an Ohio boy); and true (it is harder to fool little girls these days...
...dugout cutup, Lary was nicknamed "Taters" by Tiger teammates because he once wrote "taters" on a dining-car order blank, is a guitar-strumming hillbilly singer on an Alabama radio station in the off season. But Lary is not an ambitionless rube. He hopes to quit with his pension after three more years to develop a 40-acre Alabama water recreation area called Frank Lary Lake. ''Ten years in baseball would be enough." he says. "I should spend more time with my family. I'm not home enough to raise my kids...
...fellow newsmen-Grantland Rice, Westbrook Pegler, Heywood Broun, Arthur Brisbane-were knights of the round table, which was usually a bar. Fowler's personal idol and friend was Alfred Damon Runyon. Despite his Broadway camaraderie, Runyon was a brooding, lonely man, and there were distinct traces of rube in his makeup. He believed that to count as a New York know-it-all, he had to unearth a champion heavyweight. Over the years he maintained a series of fighters who ate like lions and fought like lambs...