“…Gone With a Tip of His Hat”

		Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991) On this day in 1991 Theodor Seuss Geisel died, at the age of eighty-seven. Geisel turned to children’s books in his late twenties, when his job creating ads for “Flit” insect repellent — his “Quick, Henry, the Flit!” became a household slogan across America — left him well-off and bored. The next fifty years brought forty-eight books, three Oscars, two Emmys and a Pulitzer. …read more