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...like what he saw. Texas Washer makes fins for Army mortar shells, but Major Dinwiddie could find not one armed guard around its plant. Whereupon Owner Wayne A. Baird grinned at the irate Major, told him to "walk through that door." As Dinwiddie obeyed, Baird pushed a button and every one of Texas Washer's 100-odd workmen dropped his tools, trained a sawed-off shotgun at the startled officer. "Just double duty," said Baird. "Every employe his own guard, and they all can shoot...
...Horace Button Taft, founder, saint and for 46 years headmaster of the Taft School for Boys, died last week at the age of 81. He leaves Groton's venerable Endicott Peabody (now 85) as the last of the generation of schoolmasters who built the U.S. private preparatory-school system. Like his brother William Howard, Horace had great good humor and a flowing mustache, but he was several inches taller and weighed half as much...
...Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin, and pauper-poor is S. J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...
...Washington a battery of classification machines sorts the reports in the same way big corporations keep track of their sales, production and personnel. At the touch of a button any kind of detailed information is available. Examples: how many technical sergeants with experience as navigators there are in the Air Forces, how many spare engines are on hand in Australia...
...Distaff: Button-popping with pride was pop-eyed Eddie Cantor, sonless father of five; a daughter had popped up with bells on in show business. Off the family payroll, onto Manhattan station WNEW's as a staff announcer was 21-year-old Marilyn, happily no spittin' image...