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...problem of her and when Dick Button gets his studying done has been partially solved. Button, a senior who spends every winter in Europe winning world figure skating titles, recently mailed a 110-page government thesis to his tutor, Arthur A. Maass, assistant professor of Government...
...small (5 ft. 5½ in.), pink-cheeked man who wears a button-front sweater with his Brooks Brothers suit, Shawn has a reputation for politeness and tact that is almost as legendary as Ross's volcanic temper. "No one," says a friend, "has yet gotten through a door behind him." Editor Shawn never swears or raises his voice. He works up to 14 hours a day as quietly as a bank clerk, carries home a pile of work to his Fifth Avenue apartment. For relaxation, he plays hot jazz on the piano and reads four or five books...
After the preliminary work the actual solving is begun, when a button is pressed...
...count* runs his 300 enterprises (textiles, cereals, shipping, refining) in the style of a 16th century Florentine prince. Big, bleak and impeccably dressed, the count operates from a deep couch in the corner of his immense office. Across the room is a board with vertical lines of electric buttons. At a sign from the count, an attendant leaps forward, then leaps back to punch whichever button the count indicates. The buzzer-button system calls the count's top executives into his presence. The employee answers the count's question, receives his instructions, then bows his way backward from...
...Button, who has said that he has "absolutely no intention of turning pro," left by air on Thursday for Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, where he will train for the Olympics...