Confessions Of An American Button Man

December, 1956

Confessions of an American Button ManDried up? ... Is that what they're saying in there? That I've lost my ideas? ... Me? ... Charley Barkus -- the greatest idea man the button industry has ever known -- all dried up? Ha! Just like the Atlantic Ocean is dried up ... Just like the Hudson River is dried up.Do you know who is dried up? Those smart guys in there ... the Button Manufacturers of America ... sitting on their fat behinds and chewing their fat cigars and squeezing their fat heads for an...