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Doughnut-dunking machines: 1956 inventor’s gadgets

Ellsworth Toohey
May 13, 2026
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Celebrity Magazine January 1956

“Life has gotten too darned complicated,” declared Russell E. Oakes in the January 1956 issue of Celebrity magazine. “Our scientists and inventors are just great at investigating the sex life of the polyp or building bigger and better positronic re-diffraction hypotelemeters — but they ignore the all-important everyday pro…

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