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...priced items, which may or may not be bargains. Filene's basement sells only bargains, not all of them low-priced. It has sold $4,250 mink coats for $1,950. It once bought pipes with flanges on the stem, sold them to men without teeth. Its corset department does its fittings in the aisles, but it sells some 260,000 corsets a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Hub of the Hub | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...himself into the vast sea that was the soul of the Savieur de France. I remember well the case of Reginald Arbutney, who gave the Longneck Theater its greatest evening in the first male "Joan." Unfortunately, Reginald was never allowed to follow his star for he inadvertently tied a corset string to one spur and thereby broke his neck mounting his white charger in the last act. May the Harvard Joan have more care. J. Thisby McManus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/11/1947 | See Source »

...last the door chimes echoed through the house. "Well, child," she said to Edwina, "what are you waiting for?" Poor, flustered Edwina, whose childhood dated back to the days of the St. Louis World's Fair (and whose corset hurt her, besides), stammered, "But, mother, aren't you . . .?" Edwina sprang nervously, dropped her needlework, began fussing with her dress and her hair. By the time she reached the front hall, the colored maid had opened the door. There was Mal, her brother. And there, standing with him, was Nora, his grown daughter, whom none of the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Macloud Gulf | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

Bert Lahr, who's been on the boards since you used to sit on your father's lap at the neighborhood Burlesque, romped into town this week with a routine that sent a front row of bald heads rolling into the aisle and put a fold in the whalebone corset of someone's spinster aunt. Not since Stinky and Shorty pervaded the atmosphere of the Old Howard has this Hub sniffed anything resembling Lahr's patter, and not since Margie Hart twisted her ankle on a faulty runway have Beacon Hill Burghers seen-even on the sly-a morsel like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 7/19/1946 | See Source »

Errol Flynn said he was taking his wife on a yachting trip to Latin America and France, refused to confirm or deny word of another Flynn enterprise: investment in a corset-&-brassiere business. His statement: "What-are they still wearing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

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