I suggest you look under "Smiley" in Wikipedia.com.


Ron May wrote:
> Still, that does not mean that happy face pins were widely used in the
> 1960s. I suspect advertising and marketing campaigns picked up the device and  the
> actual mass-marketing of the pins can be attributed to one of those  companies
> that mass-produce fountain pens, pencils, and coffee cups with company
> names. Even then, you should ask yourselves how and under what circumstances  those
> little images began popping up?
>
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
>
>
> In a message dated 10/21/2008 4:37:05 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> Little  "digging" on Yahoo and voila! Happy face was devised in 1963 by
> Harvey Ball  for an insurance  firm.
>
> http://www.apartmentshoustonmovingrelocation.com/happy_face.htm
>
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