Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nancy Walker is one of these three, a futile organizer of the proletariat known aptly enough as Yetta Samovar, and she all but purloins the production, squeezing the most from both dialogue and a handful of witty ditties. All the rest of the Cast, including comedians Red Button and Philip Coolidge, are both capable and in good voice; the setting and costumes are pleasing to the eye; the chorus is young and pretty; the dancing is quite nice. Taken altogether. "Barefoot Boy" is of no world-shaking significance, but is attractive enough fare to entertain throngs of New Yorkers...
Speemen, horrified at the discovery of their three foot, black mascot in public, clad only in a bow tie, were pushing the probe. One prominent clubman was heard to remark, "A Spee bear would never be seen without his old school tie and oxford cloth button down." We are grateful, however, for the stuffing and repair job done on the beast during his misadventure. In the great Spee tradition the bear will return to the clubhouse in much better condition than when he left...
Maurice C. Smith Jr., community-minded president of the Bristol Manufacturing Co. (sneakers and rubber stamps), liked the sound of brother Bill's idea. Last week he announced the appointment of the Rev. Dale B. Button, pastor of Providence's Central Baptist Church, as "Vice President in charge of Christian Relations...
...Parson Button, 46, is a forthright, husky man who looks more like a vice president than a clergyman. As he sees it, his first duty-"or, rather, privilege"-will probably be helping out small, impoverished New England churches of all denominations. The good Baptist Smith brothers explain the anomalous Button job thus: "We spend lots of time trying to figure out ways of helping the community and the state. We are employing an efficiency expert in religion just the same as we'd employ any other efficiency expert. We don't expect to sell, any more shoes because...
...Stockholm, Hans Gerschweiler (Switzerland) won out over 18-year-old Dick Button (New Jersey) for the men's world figure-skating crown and set off a howl in Sweden's press. Stockholm's Tid-ningen said: "The best skater lost. . . ."; Dagens Nyheter added: "The judge lacked experience...