Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Rogon, 61, was different from the fuddled old drifters who vanish nightly into the cold stone wildernesses of Chicago. He paid his rent, had a wife, three sons, and a button for 35 years' faithful service to the International Harvester Co. A Polish immigrant, he spoke little English. But he had never gotten lost before...
Susan Peters, up & coming cinemactress partly paralyzed in a hunting accident last year, nuzzled her button-cute adopted son, Tim, for a memorable two-button picture (see cut). He came to her by air, and he was just the start, said she; she planned "lots of brothers and sisters...
Sharing the floor with Shapley and other scientists, Senator Brien McMahen, chairman of the Senate Atomic Energy Committee, will speak on "Legislative Control of the Atomic Bomb." The entire program, which includes a playlet on push button atomic warfare, will emphasize civilian use and control of atomic energy...
...setting of Benny Goodman's record, in which orgiastic hepcats and bobby-soxers, mad on chocolate malteds, tear all over the place, paced and sustained by the sketching of a deft, rapid pencil. It will satisfy the young and the benign, sicken those who suspect "healthy" tributes to button-eyed innocence...
Giuseppe was a changed man. One day this week, his shoe-button eyes agleam and his squirrel teeth clamped, Giuseppe stepped up to bat. A pitched ball hit him, but he spurned the umpire's offer to take first base. Then he banged out homer No. 14 high over the centerfield fence, 402 ft. away. Everybody was beginning to talk, too, about his superb fielding, running, throwing. Such spring training carryings-on were usually reserved for rambunctious rookies-not the great Giuseppe Paolo ("Joe") Di Maggio of the New York Yankees...