Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Willkie Button Mystery was at last explained. When the New Jersey mother of a Marine in the South Pacific got a letter from him asking for 500 old Willkie campaign buttons, with the explanation of why he wanted them deleted by a censor. Republican National Chairman Harrison E. Spangler sized the event up as a red-hot issue. Probably, he spluttered, demanding an investigation, the Marine was just trying to counteract New Deal propaganda in the armed forces...
Last week the true explanation came from NBC Correspondent Robert McCormick. The Marine's outfit makes a practice of bestowing on bellyachers "weeping slips" entitling them to cry on the chaplain's shoulder. When a Marine accumulates ten slips he is decorated. The decoration: a Willkie button. Last week the New Jersey marine's mother got another letter: 500 more buttons, please...
...readers: "The average G.I. Joe wants to see his name in print and likes to laugh at himself and his pals." Accordingly, Robinson handles front-line news in facetious but never flippant style. Battlefront pictures are taboo, since the doughboy knows what the front looks like. No button-polishing publicity sheet, 48th News carries officers' stories only when they are really interesting. (The division's general was interviewed when he took over, has been mentioned only twice since...
...Acquired a wardrobe of 40 suits, 20 shirts, 25 ties, half a dozen pairs of shoes, two mink-lined topcoats, three gold cigaret cases valued at $700 apiece, a star sapphire ring ($1,200), high yellow button shoes for race meetings, an 18-carat, 110-penny-weight watch chain 17 inches long; and from his writings, endorsements...
...Angeles, a television and wirephoto wizard named Leroy J. Leishman (he thought up push-button radio tuning) has perfected a stereo-fluoroscope which gives a three-dimensional view of the body's interior. With the Leishman device, a surgeon can look into a wounded soldier, twiddle some knobs until he sees what he is looking for, insert a slim, sterilized needle straight to an embedded bullet or shell fragment. Later the metal can be removed cleanly without extra probing and blood loss, simply by following the needle. In fracture cases, the surgeon can watch the bones slip into place...