11-26-2008, 09:51 AM
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NYT obits, the breakfast of champions
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/bu...ref=obituaries
- Betty James, Who Named the Slinky Toy, Is Dead at 90
Betty James, who came up with the name Slinky for the stair-walking spring that has delighted children for more than 60 years and who ran the toy company after her husband, the inventor, left it and his family in 1960, died Thursday in Philadelphia. She was 90 and lived in Hollidaysburg, Pa., where the company, James Industries, is located.
The cause was congestive heart failure, her son Tom said.
Paging through a dictionary in 1944, Mrs. James put her finger on the word slinky because she thought it best described the sinuous and graceful movement and the soft sound of the expanding and contracting metal coil her husband, Richard, had fashioned.
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