Title
The “Laugh-In” Button
Date
Ca. 1969
Description
The son of Ohio farmers, Isaac Kauffman Funk became a Lutheran pastor and an entrepreneurial religious publisher. With lawyer Adam Wagnalls, he founded the Funk & Wagnalls Company, which produced A Standard Dictionary of the English Language. A staff of hundreds labored for more than three years to produce more than 2,300 triple-column pages of small print. Funk’s initial cost was $1.1 million (more than $36 million today). Frank Vizetelly, a talented lexicographer-colleague, wrote of Funk’s “indefatigable energy and practical scholarship.”
Source
Ex coll. Karolyne & Bryan A. Garner. HHD no. 91