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...taste of salt water; he often went to Ipswich to fish from a dory for cod and pollack, and there were excursions in the family's home-built power launch, the Emmie Lou. Mel spent his 17th summer as a deckhand on a cousin's steamer, serving Bras d'Or Lake in Nova Scotia...
...undisputed master, and into a region where he is still very much the boss. Outwardly, but only outwardly, American business has become strongly feminized. Industrial giants get down on their knees before the woman shopper, promising to love, honor and obey. The U.S. office landscape is full of wire bras, pancake makeup, and clouds of Chanel No. 5 rising from filing cabinets. Of the total U.S. labor force of 63 million, nearly one-third are women, twice as big a proportion as 60 years ago. Nevertheless, there are not enough top women executives in the U.S. today to form...
...Beverly Hills, Teitelbaum furriers offered mink bras and panties in 30 different mutations. Price: $2,500 a set. Also in Beverly Hills, Jewells by Tobias put on sale gold cuff links, in the shape of "his" and "her" shorts (viewed from the rear...
Babe Didrikson was the sixth of seven children born to Ole Didrikson, a Norwegian ship's carpenter who sailed 19 times around the Horn before settling down in Port Arthur, Texas. A scrawny youngster, she rebelled against femininity; women were "sissies who wore girdles, bras and that junk." Instead of wasting time with dolls, Mildred Ella Didrikson exercised on a backyard weight-lifting machine built of broomsticks and her mother's flatirons. She beat boys at mumblety-peg, whizzed past them in foot races and razzle-dazzled them in basketball. Still in her teens, she burst into...
...World") have been toned down, and patent medicines virtually abolished. Instead of ads for rubber and celluloid collars and mustache cups, there are now lists of lipstick, perfume and hormone creams -plus 37 pages of foundation garments ("I dreamed I went shopping at Sears for more Maidenform bras"). Most expensive item: diamonds (up to $1,795) -on the cheaper rings, "magic reflector settings make diamonds seem larger...