Trivially Speaking: Credit Frank McNamara for putting ‘plastic’ in popular use

Trivially Speaking: Credit Frank McNamara for putting ‘plastic’ in popular use

“Plastics” is the single word of advice given to Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) at a cocktail party in the classic movie “The Graduate.” It is intended to spark him toward a career. The film came out in 1967 but the action was set earlier in the 1960s. The word in our world would more frequently point toward the number of plastic credit cards contained in the average wallet or purse. Frank McNamara is credited with inventing the first credit…