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...course, the 'Poon's Rube Goldberg has yet to operate his steamobile, but he expects to drive it down here next weekend after completing the welding at his Dublin, N. H., home...
What emerged from this tussle with paper and pencil is a startling but not unhandsome combination of a fencer's mask and a Rube Goldberg ashtray...
Cheerful, modest Rube Goldberg, 59, was born in San Francisco, studied mining engineering at the University of California, where "big machines impressed me with their futility," designed sewers and water mains for San Francisco. His career as sewer designer ended in 1906 when the city's great earthquake destroyed its (and his) sewage system...
...Rube went to New York, got a job illustrating sports for the Evening Mail. One day he filled out his space with Foolish Question No. 1, showing a man who had fallen from the Flatiron Building being asked by a bystander if he were hurt. (Answer: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business...
Goldberg's ambition has always been to write, to become the "H. G. Wells of this country." But he was "tickled to death to break the continuity" when the New York Sun hired him in 1938 as its first political cartoonist in 18 years. Said Rube: "I never wanted to be the fellow who got the medal for being the Oldest Employe." Today his hobbies consist of "standing, sitting, breathing." Of his first exhibition he says simply: "Very dignified and well done...