George Lerner

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George Lerner (born 1922) was the inventor of the famous American toy, Mr. Potato Head. During World War II in the 1940s he sold the idea of a toy whose body parts would stick onto a potato to a cereal company. The idea never caught on until the Hassenfeld brothers (now Hasbro) bought the rights to the toy.

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