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  • E. Bryant Crutchfield, 85, Dies; Gave the World the Trapper Keeper

    08/26/2022 7:50:12 AM PDT · by Borges · 54 replies
    NYT ^ | 8/25/22 | Clay Risen
    E. Bryant Crutchfield, a paper-company executive who in the early 1980s brought three-ringed order to the chaos of millions of grade-school backpacks with a plastic-and-cardboard triptych he called the Trapper Keeper, died on Sunday at a hospice center in Marietta, Ga. He was 85. His son, Kenneth, said the cause was bone cancer. Few objects evoke Gen X or millennial childhood as powerfully as the Trapper Keeper, essentially a large binder for your folders. Mead, Mr. Crutchfield’s employer, introduced it nationally in 1981, and by the end of the decade the company estimated that half of all middle and high...