Never mind that today is the birthdate of Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, Butch Cassidy, and Seamus Heaney. The man we should be celebrating (b. 1899) is Alfred Butts, the father of Scrabble. Here was a man with a dream, laboring from 1931 to '48 to get his idea to market.
Posted by Bobby Farouk at April 13, 2005 10:19 AM