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After WWI a man named Jacques Linsky came to the US. He met a fellow who invented a device for holding pieces of paper together. Mr. Linsky bought the invention and began to produce this new product.

Meanwhile Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made a wonderful film called Swingtime. Linsky loved the film and eventually named his product, a stapler, Swingline. I wondered for years how the name was determined. After all, a stapler closes but doesn't really swing.

I saw the film tonight, not for the first time. Astaire was smoking a Dunhill that looked like a #4 Crosby, in the snow scene. If you missed this film I do hope you see it. The dance numbers have never been bettered in film and Ginger Rogers is extraordinarily sexy in it. Though released 78 years ago the film does not seem dated and belongs in a time capsule.

 

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I believe Swingline refers to the way the stapler itself "swings" open.
I just love the Astaire-Rodgers movies. There was only six of them but all are classics.

 
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