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Things are impulsive merely because they have been left more or less to their own devices. The collar button simply decides the floor looks more comfortable than the dresser, and is a little bewildered when somebody starts yelling at it. Pretty soon he gets tired of being kicked around, and creeps into the farthest corner...
Things are quite cooperative once you let them in on what all the fuss is about . . . which is why it is a good idea to sit down and have a long talk with the collar button the day you first...
...from becoming a social whip. The radicals bear down, saying we are not in there fighting. Others want us to become an organization, a placement bureau, a mission that gets people jobs and gives away shoes." Thurman recently approved the decision of a member not to wear his Wallace button while welcoming people to church. "We are a religious group," he insists. "It is important that we give strength to people working on interracial problems, but the interracial character of our own group is becoming the least significant part of it ... We have remained a church...
...automatic rod for very relaxed fishermen (designed by Anthony Moliskey of San Pedro, Calif.). When a fish bites, the fisherman touches a button. A compressed air cylinder raises the rod, flips the fish toward the frying...
Divorced. By Jane Wyman, 34, button-nosed cinemactress (The Yearling, The Lost Weekend) who recently got the nod for having "the loveliest legs in the U.S.": third husband Ronald Reagan, 36, cinemactor (The Voice of the Turtle); after 8½ years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...