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Apropos of the Democrats and their advertising agency, which "made the Maidenform bra a symbol of the American Dream": the theme was used four years ago during the national nominating conventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...smiled at each other across a table in Manhattan's "21." At national committee headquarters, staff members were calmly looking beyond the convention, planning to conduct the fall campaign with the help of Madison Avenue's Norman, Craig & Kummel, Inc., the advertising agency that made the Maidenform bra a symbol of the American Dream. Even in South Carolina, where the civil-rights issue is seething, Democratic delegates caucused, tut-tutted talk of a third party, voted to seek their objectives "within the framework" of the Democratic Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Care & Feeding of the Baby | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

Hollywood snickered. "Act?" sneered one of Marilyn's directors. "That blonde can't act her way out of a Whirlpool bra." Cocktail parties were convulsed with the news that Marilyn was holed up in Manhattan with the entire Modern Library, and had sworn she would not unlock the door until she was cultured. The rumors began to get wilder. Marilyn had been admitted to the Actors Studio, and was studying the deep-dish Stanislavsky Method. She wanted to play Grushenka in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Aristophanes & Back | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...labeled the Mannerist-style painting of Gabrielle d'Estrées [Oct. 3] "Lady After Her Bath." Surely a more appropriate title would have been: "I dreamed I was in a jewelry store without my Maidenform bra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

Having spent 20 years uv my life bein' razed up in the tuff atmosfere uv Clay Caounty's Brazil (pronounced bra as in brassière, z as in zebra, il as in ill), I think I can say TIME erred. The atmosfere ain't tuff, and the peepul ain't either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1955 | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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