Robert Swan Mueller

Venturing to the MacGregor’s blog, they’ve put up two posts that I haven’t seen until now:

• Dear Mr. Mueller (posted today)
• Fiddling Around (posted July 7)

The first one involves a notable person... whose surname is an addition to the “Remove a Letter Makes a Word” pattern-cluster ... as in remove the “e” makes “muller”... one who “mulls” (ponders). Note from his wiki page:

Robert Swan Mueller III (born August 7, 1944) 

 His date of birth jives with my previous post:

• Rory Calhoun (August 8, 1922 – April 28, 1999; born Francis Timothy McCown) 

And so we now have an “August __, 7, 8, __/ Date Sequence” pattern-cluster.   I decided to check the etymology of “muller” and this is what the search engine brought up:

Geiger counter (n.)1924, named for German physicist Hans Geiger (1882-1945), who invented it with Walther Müller. The surname is literally "fiddler."

Butt what strikes me the most in the above is “fiddler” that jives with the title of the MacGregor’s July 7 post: Fiddling Around!! And so a “Fiddle Theme” pattern-cluster.  Note from Walther’s Wiki page:

 Walther Müller (6 September 1905 – 4 December 1979)

And we now have an “__August 7,  September 6, __/ Day, Month Sequence” pattern-cluster.