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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President was given a fat manila folder full of birthday greetings from around the world, with a hefty sheaf from Kansas City and Missouri. On his desk was a white-iced angel-food cake. Among his birthday presents: 64 red roses, a new gold World War I service button, a fancy rifle, a miniature bronze horse from a nine-year-old in Douglas, Wyo. who shares his birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: 64 Roses | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Hempstead, N.Y. judge ordered one Anthony Koskakowski to cease blowing his automobile horn at girls on the street. At the press of a button, the horn cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Twenty-one hundred miles away, in Chicago, a 20-year-old university student named Barry Nathan pinned on his Gallup Poll button and sallied forth. He concentrated on first-floor apartments ("it's harder for them to refuse") and people waiting in self-service laundries ("God's gift to the interviewer"). Unlike chatty Mrs. Kadlec, he invariably opened his interview with the approved Gallup introduction: "I'd like your opinion on a few leading topics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: The Black & White Beans | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Button, Button...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students for Eisenhower Gather in Adams Tonight | 4/21/1948 | See Source »

Boston critics were permitted to view the controversial play last night, along with 200 disabled veterans, as guests of the HDC, in view of the opening of "High Button Shoes," which will command the reviewers' eyes tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC's 'Survivors' Set for Plymouth Theatre Tonight | 4/20/1948 | See Source »

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