Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this afternoon when you cheer the blend of fife and tuba that is "Wintergreen," look for a moment at the man with the Dewey button and the tear in his eye and the man with the Truman button and the tear in his eye. These men understand. They know whose absence it is that makes the heart grow heavier this autumn. And not all the brass in Bubduk can blow loud enough to make up the loss of John P. Wintergreen...
...seek relief in cussing if a safe fell upon him, or a lion bit off his leg, or an anarchist had at him with a bomb, or his wife eloped with the letter-carrier. But on missing a train, or slipping on an orange peel, or losing a collar button, or in the presence of a crying baby, an automatic piano, a political heresy, or an incompetent barber-then the ancient craft hath its high uses, and its sweet comforts, and its mild and consoling sinfulness. RICHARD NORRIS Conway...
...book & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; produced by Cheryl Crawford) can boast the Best of Everything-the producer and the librettist of Brigadoon, the composer of Lady in the Dark, the director of A Streetcar Named Desire, the choreographer of Finian's Rainbow, the leading lady of High Button Shoes, the leading man of Annie Get Your Gun. But whether so many top-notchers are like too many cooks, or whether some of them have slipped a notch or two, Love Life is not really a good show; it is only a show with good things...
Radio dreads the verbal burp; television, the unbuttoned button. Last week, television preserved the decencies just in time by shutting its eyes. True to the old code, it apologized by explaining that it was a cinder, or something...
...part, Joe looks with awe on Broadway footlights and the people who work behind them. In Manhattan, he lives in a 54th Street apartment hotel, not far from the theatrical swirl, and he sees as many plays as he can (some recent favorites: High Button Shoes, Show Boat, Annie Get Your...