Bob Dyer: Famous? Not So Much

OK, a free lifetime subscription to the first person who can tell me who Irvin Robinson Manton is. Was.(Disclaimer: That was a merely figure of speech. No free subscription will be forthcoming. The point is that good ol’ Irv is not exactly a household name.)If you’re anything like me (heaven help you), you could work in downtown Akron for three decades and never even notice Irv’s memorial fountain.Although the fountain appar­ently doesn’t work anymore, it’s not exactly hidden away.