Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight. In the interests of neutrality, the lone American streaked for the field, was gleefully pursued by a pot-hunting Nazi. When the bullets began to zip past him, the American abandoned neutrality, flipped over his plane, got the Nazi in his sight, pressed the Spitfire's gun button, bagging one Messerschmitt fighter for the armed forces...
Notes on People and Stuff: Al Gilbert in a white turtle-neck sweater and a beret . . . President James Byrant Conant in an exquisitely cut six-button tweed--why is he only the fifth best dressed man? I don't think Max Baer's got anything on him . . . W. Russell Bowie, Jr., President of that delicious Harvard Lampoon, in a palmbeach suit and a steamer rug . . . of course Lucius Beebe came in a trolley...
Chipp, Press and Ross, Cambridge custom clothing's big three, have a unique business technique. The three-button-natural-shoulder-loose-fitting long coats which they produce are, in their eyes, works of art, and they should be sold as such. The ordinary good tailor won't sell a suit unless it fits well; he's a piker compared with the Mount A. Street trio. They won't sell a suit unless it fits the personality of the buyer. Every piece of clothing that goes out of the little brick shops is designed to fill a definite function...
...McIlwain, professor of Government, who spoke at one of the Willikie rallies and who wears an Aid-to-Britain button, will preside over the meeting. Professor O. M. W. Sprague '94, who will represent the Business School, was economic adviser to the Bank of England until 1932 and financial authority to the Secretary of the Treasury until he broke with Roosevelt on fiscal policies of the New Deal. Col. Dana. T. Gallup, who is legal adviser to the State Draft Board will also speak...
Last week Doughnut Corp. launched Donut Week with sillier shenanigans than ever. Radiozany Gracie Allen pushed a button setting off doughnut machines all over the country. While Manhattan paid its respects to the usual "Donut Queen," Camden, Maine honored the late Captain Hanson Crockett Gregory, alleged inventor of the doughnut's hole,* planned to erect a statue to him. Placing its Joe Cook dunker on view in its Times Square Mayflower Doughnut Shop, Doughnut Corp...