Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reversing Dr. Sam Sheppard's murder conviction last spring, however, the Supreme Court suggested that the answer is for the bar and the police to button their own lips-thus silencing the key sources of prejudicial news without curbing freedom of the press. Last week a long-awaited set of specifics for carrying out that proposal was issued by the American Bar Association's ten-member advisory committee on fair trial and free press, a distinguished body of lawyers and judges headed by Justice Paul C. Reardon of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court...
Died. Helen Kane, 62, a saucy soubrette from The Bronx who could barely sing a note, but in the flapper-happy '20s turned a baby voice, puckered-up lips, a couple of songs (/ Wanna Be Loved by You, Button Up Your Overcoat) and one nonsense phrase ("boop-boop-a-doop") into a national craze; of cancer; in Queens...
...With sunny enthusiasm that made the task seem effortless, she recruited and coordinated hundreds of youthful Percy-for-Senator volunteers, helped set up 22 campaign centers in the Chicago area, made dozens of warm little speeches for her father. She toured the wards wearing a winsome smile and a button that said, "HI! I'm Valerie Percy-Chuck...
...Valerie's room. Inside, she saw a shadowy figure bent over Valerie's bed. The intruder instantly straightened up, whirled about and transfixed Loraine Percy in the blinding glare of a powerful flashlight. Screaming, she ran back to the master bedroom, where she punched a wall button that set off a rooftop burglar-alarm siren...
Before Lindsay left and some dues-paying pressman pushed the button, an hour of printing time was lost. But at last the WJT appeared. Stabbing the air with one of the first copies, Editor Frank Conniff exclaimed with proud surprise: "This paper actually came...