Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court von Haugwitz-Reventlow, who hit the front pages in the '30s by marrying Heiress Barbara Button, rose from his latter-day obscurity to crush a canard. It was getting around that ex-Wife Barbara had offered him $1 million to give up his part-time custody of their ten-year-old son, Lance. Gritted father: "I would rather lose my right leg. . . ." Then he subsided again into Newport with Wife No. 2, the former Margaret Drayton, granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor...
...instrument, which includes an ordinary telephone receiver, a wire recorder and a push-button control box, is the first fully automatic telephonograph. If its owner is busy or out, the gadget patiently waits out four rings, then croaks: "This is the Ipsophone, Blank Company, Mr. Smith's office. Attention. Please speak-now." If the caller is struck speechless, the machine waits politely for twelve seconds then repeats its invitation. The Ipsophone will listen for up to half an hour without interruption, recording every word...
...walked into the first of the disputes which were to occupy him for more than three decades of labor wars. Curiously, he was not a violent man. He was an earnest schemer who believed that most things could be settled by compromise. A young man in button shoes, speaking broken English, he brought about settlement of a strike at Hart Schaffner & Marx which became the basis for peace in the company for 35 years...
After it was all over, the perspiring lost & found committee measured its take: 50 pairs of gloves, dozens of handkerchiefs, four coats, five umbrellas, a Shriner's button. It was not excessive, considering the number of women (3,000) and the length of their stay (five days...
TIME (May 27) says Barbara Button's shorts would shock the President of France. LIFE the same day says it was the King of Cambodia...