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...42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, she came upon an ad announcing the opening of a new investment-counseling firm, Glass & Krey, just up the street. Sylvia made the trip over in such a hurry that her Phi Beta Kappa key was still swinging like a pendulum on her bosom when she arrived at the desk of Arthur William Glass. The sight of the pendant transfixed him. "I've always wanted to hire someone with one of those," he murmured before Sylvia could open her mouth. "What...
...founder and chairman of Maidenform Inc., the chief U.S. brassiere manufacturer and the originator of the modern bra. "Nature has made woman with a bosom," says Mrs. Rosenthal, "so nature thought it was important. Who am I to argue with nature...
Last week Mrs. Rosenthal, who spends 50% of her time traveling to outposts of her Maidenformidable empire, was in Europe. After hurrying through Brussels, Zurich and Amsterdam, she settled in Paris' Ritz, gave a professional appraisal of her clients. "The U.S. woman's bosom is getting smaller," she sighed. "The French woman is sometimes underdeveloped, the Dutch woman is rather heavy, and the British woman needs a little help. Reality cannot always be beautiful...
Among Uncle Sam's motley assortment of bosom friends, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek has never been known to be red hot for civil liberties and that sort of thing. He is, if only by virtue of his friendliness (or perhaps dependence), a pleasant alternative to Mao TseTung, but the internal affairs of the island of Formosa have occasionally become an embarrassing skeleton in the United States' diplomatic closet...
Abroad, British beauties, trim of limb, firm of bosom and svelte of hip, have long been in demand - Paris' Folies-Bergere has padded out its chorus with a dozen British imports. As one chauvinistic British lady editor argued: "The Swedes are too pallid, the Spanish girls have long, forbidding noses, and Americans have bread-crumb skins." At home, too, British figures are now coming out from under wraps, as bathing suits, including bikinis, are happily adopted as something to be seen in out of the water...