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...Also out of San Francisco emerged James Swinnerton, Robert Edgren, Russell Channing Westover, Reuben Lucius ("Rube") Goldberg, Frank Gelett Burgess, Hype Igoe, the late Homer Davenport and T. A. Dorgan...
Graduates. The task of gathering funds from the legislature (which falls to any state college president) is considerably ameliorated in the case of California, for Governor Young was graduated in the class of 1892. Among other of California's celebrated sons and daughters: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg; Authors Charles Norris and Jack London; Humorist Sam Hellman; Crack U. S. Army Aviator James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle; Tennis Champion Helen Wills Moody; President Aurelia H. Reinhardt of Mills College (Oakland); Julius Klein, U. S. assistant secretary of commerce; Vice President Willis H. Booth of Guaranty Trust Co., onetime president of International Chamber...
When the lights went up again, spectators saw the instrument which had been accomplishing these wonders. It looked like a machine on which Novelist Jules Verne and Cartoonist Rube Goldberg had collaborated. It looked most like a giant dumb-bell (14 ft. high), hinged where a giant would grip it. The two knobs were spotted with "eyes," each fitted with lenses and lights, which projected "stars" on the ceiling. In the handle was machinery governing the motions of the planets...
...pictures on which $22,000,000 would be spent. The new Fox picture program, temporarily eclipsed by corporate wrangles, included Common Clay, Alcatraz (in which Cinema-horse Rex will play the lead), Are You There? (with Beatrice Lillie), Women of All Nations (with Victor McLaglen) and a comedy by Rube Goldberg, famed cartoonist. With Fox Film and Fox Theatres again amusement enterprises instead of corporate bodies threatened with dismemberment by warring factions, the close of hostilities left victors and vanquished in the following situations...
...demonstrates his knowledge of golf by competing in the artists' and writers' championship in Palm Beach. Last week, after eliminating his fellow Nast editor, Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair, he won the tournament for the third time, beating Jefferson Machamer, Manhattan artist, 2 and 1. Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, with a handicap of 35, qualified with 140 for 18 holes, then lost his first match without winning a single hole...