Date:  Mon, 26 Jan 1998 21:00:13 -0500
From:  Gerald Cohen <gcohen[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UMR.EDU>
Subject: doppkit, Doppelt

  In a 1/26/98 message on "doppkit" Jim Rader wrote:

The "Style" section of the Aug. 1995 issue of <Playboy> illustrates a
Dopp kit and states in the caption that "[it was] developed by
Charles Doppelt around 1919." Take this for whatever it's worth.

  Incidentally, Elsdon Smith's _American Surnames_ says of the name
"Doppelt": "The German DOPPELT and the Norwegian GEMELL record the man
born at the same time as another, a twin."

  German "doppelt," of course, means "double."

--Gerald Cohen

gcohen[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]umr.edu