The following is from the New York Times, Obituary section, 4/14/2001:
H. R. Ball, Ad Executive Credited With Smiley Face, Is Dead at 79
By WILLIAM H. HONAN
Harvey R. Ball, the strongest claimant to having invented the smiley face, that 100-watt yellow grin adorning tote bags, letters, car bumpers, cycling shorts and eventually a United States postage stamp, died on Thursday in Worcester, Mass. He was 79.
The cause was liver failure, said his daughter, Jacquelyn Stein.
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