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However, William H. Button, president of the American Society for Psychical Research, has remained faithful to Margery. Last week the A. S. P. R. announced the results of clairvoyance tests made with Margery, using the honor cards of an ordinary deck.* In the first series of 25 she got 22 right. In the second, all 25 right. In the third, 24 out of 25. In the fourth, all 25. Total score...
...pained no one so much as the shirt-wearing male -that is, until 1928. That year Sanford Lockwood Cluett of Cluett, Peabody & Co. invented Sanforizing-a mechanical method of preshrinking cloth back to its true dimensions. No wearer of even a $2 shirt now need tug apoplectically to button his collar after it has been washed...
...GUILLOTINE - René Belbenoit -Button...
...Washington in general, Eleanor Roosevelt in particular. Mrs. Roosevelt displaying what she insists is not a modified bob but merely a close side trim (see cut), introduced some of them to her husband, obliged with photographs and luncheons. Janet Gaynor, the President observed, was as "cute as a button...
...DANGEROUS YEARS - Gilbert Frankau-Button ($2.50). Lengthy (686 pages), second-grade family chronicle about second-grade English nobility, relieved by well-spaced sudden deaths; by a veteran author, still doing business at the old stand...