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...Savo's baggy clothes and shuffling gait began to be seen in such revues as Ritz Revue, Almanac, Earl Carroll's Vanities. Then five years ago Jimmy Savo dropped out of sight. Suddenly last year he popped up again. Almost every month his squinty eyes, bangs and button nose could be found in some glossy smart-chart because Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur were featuring him in a much-publicized cinema-which has yet to be released. That was the signal for Manhattan literati and humorists to "discover" in Jimmy Savo a new Charlie Chaplin. Even if, as critics...
...crowd were baseball dignitaries like President Ford Frick of the National League, President William Harridge of the American League. Signal for the performance to start was not the umpire's cry of "Play ball!" but another gesture, equally perfunctory but far more impressive-the pushing of a button in Washington by President Roosevelt. What made the subsequent proceedings newsworthy was that for the first time in baseball history two major-league teams played a championship game at night...
CHALLENGE TO DEATH-Viscount Cecil, Storm Jameson et al.-Button ($2). Fifteen British writers (among them: Rebecca West, Vera Brittain, Julian Huxley, J. B. Priestley, Edmund Blunden) inveigh against...
...Hollywood pranksters started a streetcar token chain to promote streetcar travel and a button chain ("In return you will receive 15,625 buttons for your wife to sew on your clothes...
...Tulsa, Okla., charged with having illegally married a ten-year-old girl, John Button, 40, replied, "She was addicted to tobacco but I've been trying to break...