Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...counter girl in a Chock Full o' Nuts shop in lower Manhattan, a chicken cleaner on Long Island ("I used to have to take out the guts and everything, but I still like chicken"), an elevator operator in the midtown Dixie Hotel, a packer in a button factory, a mechanic in a machine shop ("It was puttin' screws in somethin', I don't remember what"). Any time work interfered with tennis, she quit...
...interviewed Kim Novak one time but, unfortunately, didn't know about that last-minute button routine. The only thing Photographer Clayton Knipper and I could get her to take off was her shoes. Here's the picture...
...they left the turnstiles, the delegates were set upon immediately by bevies of bosomy beauties wearing "Garcia for President" sashes over their décolletage. "Ah," said one red-eyed delegate, "I see the day shift has taken over." Garcia opponents complained that the Garcia buttons pinned on delegates' lapels often had 10-peso bills under the button. The free sandwiches, similarly equipped, came to be known as "peso sandwiches...
...front of "G" entry, two imposing preppy types were talking to a pair of Summer School lovelies. One of the males was unmistakeably a Princeton. He wore the traditional dark gray shetland sweater, button-down shirt, English-style gray flannels and cordovans. The other person was attired in white varsity-letter sweater, turned inside out, of course, freshly pressed khakis, white athletic socks, saddle shoes and crew-cut. "Probably a Yale," thought...
What the audience at Seattle's Colony Club saw in the spotlight was a little (4 ft. 11 in.) button-nosed Nisei girl in toreador pants and white coat, with a pony tail that hung below her shoulders. What they heard when she began to sing was a booming, brassy voice that all but rattled the ice in the highballs. After the rousing chorus of Anything Goes, she slipped into a slow and smoky Fine and Dandy with a voice which she seemed to have husked up from somewhere in the floor. She was clean and limber...