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...Tokyo's gangsters, plutocrats, diplomats, legislators and sybarites could shake off the dust of the city in a palace rivaling Roman Cara-calla's wildest dreams. It boasted 50 private bath and massage rooms tended by a corps of 130 cute, almond-eyed masseuses in pale blue bras and panties. Miss Turko, they all called themselves, in keeping with the Turkish atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tempest in a Tub | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

Down the street at the , there is redhead Winnie , with her variety of and bras. Joe and Nemo's spot where sophomores and row meet and get drunk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON BOUNTIFUL IN SHOWS, SPOTS | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

...told, Gossard is selling more than 500 foundation items in "The Gossard line of beauty," including strapless bras and bodices and "mystifiers" (trade name for falsies). This year it expects to gross more than $10 million, and net more than its 1948 peak of $632,000. President Savard is convinced that the American woman is now sold on sensible foundation garments, fights shy of fads that try to squeeze her in or make her figure what it isn't. What she wants, said Savard, is "freedom with control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: The Profit Curve | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...raided a joint outside Houston last week, hauled away two strippers named Margie Lament, 33, and Mitzi Wright, 27, and charged them with indecent exposure. In court, the girls put up an unusual defense: it simply wasn't true that they had performed without panties or bras, because their union (the A.F.L. American Guild of Variety Artists) wouldn't permit such things. Verdict: not guilty. Grateful Margie and Mitzi gave the jury passes to the show. Next night, all six jurors went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Covered by Contract | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...guests (200 of them from Hollywood) milled past dinner-jacketed newsboys at the entrance, stripped the lobby's $1,000 orchid-studded trees bare, guzzled 1,200 bottles of champagne before the banquet. Shamrocks bloomed everywhere-on ashtrays, wastebaskets, even on the panties and bras that McCarthy presented to his women guests. (The men got cowboy boots from the hides of prize cattle that provided the steaks.) The crowd whooped it up so hard that speeches by McCarthy, Texas' Governor Beauford Jester and Cinemactors Pat O'Brien and Leo Carrillo had to be put off until midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: No Place Like Home | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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