[Ads-l] klutz before 1959?

[Mark Mandel]

On Apr 30, 2017 9:05 PM, "James A. Landau" wrote:

On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 12:50:47 Zone + 0000 Stephen Goranson wrote:


Things are more complicated than you indicate.


Aren't they always?

"Klutz" is a surname.  According to Wikipedia
"Klütz (or "Kluetz") is a surname and a town in the Nordwestmecklenburg
district, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany"
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klutz

and as a cross-check I Googled "David Klutz" and found 382,000 hits.

It is possible that Pat Frank, rather than employing the slang meaning of
"klutz", decided that his character needed a surname that was both German
and exotic-sounding and a quick look at a phone directory turned up "Klutz"
which fits both requirements.

- Jim Landau

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