This story in world news gave me a smile.
THE MAN WHO GAVE THE WORLD THE TRAPPER KEEPER DIES AT 85. E. Bryant Crutchfield, a paper-company executive who in the 1980s brought three-ringed order to the chaos of millions of grade-school backpacks with a plasticand-cardboard triptych he called the Trapper Keeper, died Sunday at a hospice center in Marietta, Ga. He was 85.
Who wrote that beautiful line, ”brought three-ringed order to the chaos of millions of grade-school backpacks?” There was no byline. The images of messy backpacks turning into ordered binders are vivid.
Of course, I never had a Trapper Keeper, I was a little older than that audience, but I looked longingly at them whenever Autumn school supply sales began. Rest in peace, Mr. Crutchfield.