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...gridiron after gridiron has made the old-fashioned single-wing formation seem almost like a relic of the days when players drop-kicked field goals. But a lot of spectators have been grumping about the trend. With the T-attack, they complain, football has become a game of "Button, button, who's got the button?" It takes a good grandstand man to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football for Fans | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

Seasons for a Countess. A push-button affair designed to carry two people up to the countess' boudoir, the elevator did not give Gugel much elbow room. He fitted it with a continuous mural done in deep perspective, to make the contraption look "as light and airy as possible." For subject matter he took the four seasons. "This is a very commonplace idea," he wrote the palace architect, "but I think you'll find the pictures a bit unusual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shoes | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

When the first Russians entered China long ago, the button-nosed Chinese dubbed them to, pi-tze, or Big Noses. Last week, a count of the Big Noses in Red China totaled more than 150,000 soldiers and civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER ZONES: 150,000 Big Noses | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...Broadway streets (in front of Littauer and Phillips Brooks House). With crowded traffic, crossing that intersection is indeed a terrifying and dangerous experience. While a policeman is stationed there sometimes, he is absent at other times when he is really needed. Perhaps the answer is a pedestrian push-button traffic light or perhaps longer hours for the policeman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Traffic Problem | 10/10/1950 | See Source »

...Jordan doing? Got a really good man there, solid all the way." It was apparent that the second half had really done things to the huge Hickman. The white button-down shirt he were clung to his Dulky frame, wrinkling just a little as he bent forward...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/3/1950 | See Source »

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