The art study of Cartoonist Reuben Lucius ("Rube") Goldberg ended in 1895 when his teacher, a San Francisco sign painter, fell off a scaffold. But when Rube Goldberg held his first one-man show in Manhattan last week, hundreds rushed to pay him homage.
An especially screwy achievement of Mr. Goldberg was that his exhibition should be held in a midtown brownstone house owned by Banker John Pierpont Morgan. Mr. Goldberg had covered an entire Morgan wall with a mural entitled: Automatic Hitler-Kicking Machine.
On hand are many samples of Goldberg's recent serious side: political cartoons he has drawn for the New York Sun...
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