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Died. Emmanuel Ress, 59, who made a fortune out of lapel button slogans, a jovial, onetime Wall Street clerk who in 1940 started punching out, as he called it, "levity with brevity," produced 500 million buttons for cause carriers of all stripes ("Win with Willkie," "We Need Adlai Badly," along with such contemporary coinages as "Bomb Hanoi," "Make Love, Not War"), ever true to his own disk's boast: "I don't care who wins-my business is buttons"; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...girls into handing customers only Philip Morris when they'd ordered another brand; by 1933, he was the company's vice president for sales and there created one of the world's most famous living trademarks, hiring midget John Roventini to bawl "Call for Philip Maw-ress." His company never led the industry, but largely because of him it grew from $4,000,000 in 1933 to $400 million by the time he retired...
Schizoid Progress. The trial drew much attention. Outside the courthouse last week, some 30 of Sinyavsky-Tertz's students from the Institute of World Literature stationed themselves defiant ly, despite deep snow and 6-below-zero temperature. More important, the trial illustrated the curiously schizoid prog ress of Soviet justice. Never before in a Soviet court had two authors been accused of "political crimes" on the basis of their literary output alone, and the inevitable convictions would set a disastrous legal precedent for esthetic freedom in Russia. On the other hand, a trial conducted with press coverage marked some...
...those "baby-babies" into the hushed gym, everything was so fine. Unfortunately, that was not all the time. The Supremes' opener was "Put on a Happy Face," a swinger of a show-time that made them sound like the McGuire Sisters in an Ed Sullivan Show production number. Diana Ress's version of "Make Someone Happy" was pleasant to listen to her strong husky voice sounded exactly like Nancy Wilson's, which was exactly not what her rock 'n' roll fans had almost trampled each other to death at the gate to hear...
...woman who spent so long with Picasso, Françe writes as if love's labor's lost. But in the minotaur's ca ress, Françe admits that she found herself. No woman could ask for more...