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...does, he likes to tell stories from his vast fund of them, though his wife Jessie sometimes protests: "Oh Erwin, not that one again!" One of his favorites is about two Englishwomen who were being chauffeur-driven around Detroit in a G.M. limousine. Someone touched a hydraulic window-lift button by mistake, and the glass partition dropped, letting in a blast of air that billowed up the guests' skirts. "Gracious!" cried one, "don't you Americans ever do anything by hand...
...Edward Ryerson] to handle." There were other considerations. Said one symphony musician: "Maybe it's just as well if Furtwangler doesn't come. I understand his beat is very difficult and strange. He comes down with a sort of shiver, and when he gets to the second button on his waistcoat, you start to play...
...Burke's job, however, to figure out exactly what they are going to do. In addition to barking at them over an electric amplifier which carries his words more than a hundred yards through the noise of the Square, he attempts to regulate them with a manually-operated push-button traffic signal. Both the booth and traffic signal were built ten years ago when traffic conditions in the Square reached their present state of chaos, but the amplifier was not added until 1941, more or less as a last resort...
...pound, non-smoking and non-drinking ("I just never got started") freshman has been using up energy on the ice for only seven years. He started figure skating at the age of 12 against his father's wishes. "Dad wanted me to play hockey." Button explains, "but after I won my first medal, you couldn't tear him away from figure skating...
...Button will defend three titles in the next few months--the North American at Philadelphia in February, the world title in Paris (with University Hall permission) at the start of the spring term, and the National championship at Colorado Springs during Easter vacation...