On the photo you can see that he is using a B19 metal button. I generally don't buy images on ebay but I got this one: it is too good!
Are top spinners a little lose at the top? Are we a little weird? Magan certainly was! From the
Wikipedia entry:
James T. Mangan (1896–1970) was a famous eccentric, public relations man and best-selling author on self-help topics who publicly claimed ownership of outer space in 1948.
Mangan founded what he called the Nation of Celestial Space and registered it with the Recorder of Deeds and Titles of Cook County, Illinois, on January 1, 1949.[1] Eventually, the Nation claimed 100,000 members and in 1958, Mangan applied for membership in the United Nations and erected a flag outside the UN Building in New York City before millions of television viewers. He consistently and stubbornly insisted that Celestia - his nickname for the Nation of Celestial Space - was a legal and valid micronation, going so far as to issue passports to astronauts and protest the incursions of satellites on his domain.[2]
In his book The Secret of Perfect Living,[3] Mangan created a psychological system slightly resembling transcendental meditation, in which readers were encouraged to engage their subconscious minds and obtain specific mental states by focusing their attention on mantra-like one-word affirmations called switchwords; for example, focusing on "GIGGLE" would be useful "to get in mood for writing."[4]
I found about this because there are 4 more press photos of James Magan on Ebay from the 50's related to his extraterrestial real state venture (
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3,
4). Fortunately, he also developed a spherical spaceship that could travel at the speed of light
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The address listed, 141 W Jackson Blvd, is right in the financial district, so he invested quite a bit on this venture.
I wonder if in "The Secret of Perfect Living" he mentions top spinning
Another book he wrote was "The Knack of Selling Yourself"
