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...Push the Button." The U.S. soon led the photography field (one English critic, chagrined when his country lost in an international exhibition, attributed U.S. successes to the American climate). At first, U.S. daguerreotype studios were sedate affairs, always featuring, as one writer described them, "the pianoforte, the music box, the singing of birds; the elegant drapery . . . the struggling sunbeam peering through doors of stained glass . . ." But production was upped from a few pictures to thousands a day, partly because of a group of go-getting photographers nicknamed "blue bosom boys." (As in TV, they could not properly photograph white shirt...
...built-in bar in his Cadillac, plus faucets for Scotch, bourbon, champagne and beer in his home, proudly showed off his newest wrinkle: a heavy, green, living-room rug, which rolls, like a window blind in reverse, up a glass wall at the press of a button. Said Hayes: "At Hiroshima and Nagasaki, windows blew out and lots of people were killed by glass. [The rug] catches it. Since the rug is so heavy, it stops gamma rays and neutrons as well...
While the Lieutenant was demonstrating at length the perils of the anchor chain, my eyes wandered to another officer, hunched over what appeared to be a slot machine. "That's quite a gadget," my guide explained, "you press one button and a Naval question flashes up, then you press another button to answer it." Seeing that I was interested, the other officer casually punched a button concerning the intricacies of Naval dress. "Damn uniforms," he muttered, as the machine flashed red for wrong. Now more intent, he jabbed another button, and his face lit up with the machine. "Got twenty...
Died. John Marin, 82, famed watercolor artist, regarded by many critics as America's greatest painter; at his seaside cottage in Addison, Me. A failure as a button salesman and later as an architect, at 28 he turned to art, opened his first big Manhattan exhibition in 1909, when he was 39. Marin scorned" formal training and academic styles ("If you put on the paint right...it will tell its own story"), saw his vivid land and seascapes sell for as much as $10,000 apiece, kept hard at work until shortly before his death...
...surround the force with barbed wire, not to stop desertions but to keep outsiders from rushing in to join them. Thanks to U.S. military aid. the Turks now have Europe's second-largest standing army (No. 1: Russia): 450,000 soldiers equipped with tanks and jet aircraft to button down the free world's southern flank. A poor nation, Turkey devotes almost 40% of its budget to its defenses, and counts the money well spent, for the nation mortally hates and fears the "Moskofs." Say the Turks: the only way a Moskof can get to Istanbul...