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By Valerie J. Nelson / The Bulletin
June 20, 2009
John Houghtaling, inventor of the vibrating Magic Fingers bed that once was pervasive in motel rooms and became a cultural touchstone for a generation of American travelers, has died. He was 92.
Houghtaling died Wednesday at his Fort Pierce, Fla., home of a brain hemorrhage after apparently....