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...jerks some leather thongs strung across the body like a conductor's signal cord. The thongs are hard to wash, and the boys say that they soon begin to smell. The arm can be fitted with a pair of hooks with which, after much practice, a man can button himself up, tie shoelaces and lift up to 20 pounds...
...party in Manhattan's swank Hotel Pierre, a young man with a gold discharge button in his lapel bounded to the platform with the aplomb of an old vaudevillian. His selections from Broadway's Song of Norway and Carousel stopped the show. Last week, one of the guests, a Broadway agent, signed the singing war veteran to a contract, and had high hopes of landing him a fat part in a musical comedy. For husky Sidney Lawson, 23, it was quite a step. Only a month ago he was a member of the Society of Timid Souls...
Sergeant William Thompson Jr., 27-year-old G.I. father of quadruplets born to Norah Carpenter a year and a half ago in Heanor, England, arrived home from the wars, changed into a neat blue suit with a discharge button, said to Pittsburgh reporters: "Nothing is important. . . . Let's drop the whole matter." Wife Eleanor, still refusing him a divorce, said, "I won't see him. . . . We have nothing in common to discuss. ... He made his bed; let him lie in it." Back in England, 24-year-old Norah, confident that the Sergeant would send...
...Memoirs he reduced the ardent youthful romance that his father frowned upon to an immaculate antithesis: "I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son"-and thereafter lived without love till the day he died. But the plump, pompous little man with the snuffbox and the button mouth had his work (the Decline and Fall took him 15 years), his noble friends, his admirers, his elegant, discreet amusements, his intimations of immortality. Small wonder if, as somebody remarked, he frequently mistook himself for the Roman Empire...
...button (head, nose)-a program ending exactly on time...