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...Brassières: "Scratch like a vegetable grater. . . . Could hold a wild bull in leash...
...short, U.S. women, by the million, have renounced skirts in favor of slacks. They are also renouncing less visible femininities: panties, brassières, slips, and even bloomers and petticoats. They have taken to chemises-not the kind that served as slipcovers under corsets-but a combination one-piece garment combining built-in bra, streamlined shorts, slip-like middles...
Akron's civilian tire & tube business for 1942 was cut 100% by OPM; its other consumer products were cut 75% by WPB last week. It can no longer (after Feb. 1) use crude rubber in brassiéres, bathing suits, belts, golf balls, hundreds of other peacetime goods. Yet Akron is booming...
Meanwhile Tupá Mbaé had greatly extended his therapy. No longer did he need to see patients in person. He prescribed for the distant sick by listening to a description of their symptoms, then smelling and tasting shirts, brassières, girdles or any other apparel that had been in contact with the afflicted anatomy. Once Tupá Mbaé investigated a man's sock and correctly diagnosed hookworm, only to learn that the patient was not worried about his hookworm but about his undetected tuberculosis...
Because blonde Gerta Rozan's first good film part was eliminated in the cutting room, Austrian Actress Rozan confused Universal City traffic by patrolling the studio pavement in a strip-picket protest. By the third day, when she had got down to black satin brassière and panties, the producers summoned Miss Rozan to inform her that if she would cease they would try to fit her face back in the film. Hollywood verdict: best all-round publicity stunt of the season...