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...Adoption of girdles and brassieres as part of the women's army wardrobe will add to the prestige of the corset and brasiere industry, not only because this development would call for large orders, which are secondary, but because acceptnce of girdles and brassieres as part of the standard wardrobe . . . would establish, without reservations, foundation garments as essential to every woman, who will be more attractive for the duration. . . . Much credit is due to the Foundation Garment Institute of America, which worked with the quartermaster department in preparing the specifications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: How Firm a Foundation | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...Betty Kelley as the emotional wife falls short of the generally high standard of the production. Billed as having previous experience on the Lone Ranger program and as a professional model, she may be the originator of "Hiyooooo Silver" and certainly was a "before" model for "before and after" corset advertisements...

Author: By E. G., | Title: PLAYGOER | 9/24/1941 | See Source »

...would be a victory. It would be particularly pleasing to the Coastal Command of the R.A.F., for previously all the spectacular British torpedo-bombing had been done by the Fleet Air Arm with Fairey Sword-fishes-rickety biplanes trussed up with as many outside stays as grandma's corset. (These "string bags" nicked the French battleship Strasbourg as she fled from the Battle of Oran, had crippled three heavy units of the Italian Fleet at Taranto, slowed the Vittorio Veneto in the Battle of Matapan, had crippled the Bismarck.) But this operation was being carried out by brand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Last week, in his 1,049th game with the Detroit Tigers, 30-year-old Hank Greenberg smashed out two home runs, drove in a third run to lick the New York Yankees 7-to-4, then turned in his uniform. Next morning, in an old corset factory in downtown Detroit, Henry Greenberg, baseball's highest-paid player ($55,000 a year), was inducted into the U.S. Army along with 300 other Detroit draftees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Greenberg Trades Uniforms | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...exits. Schuck was near the service door when three bandits came charging down the stairs. He opened fire, they fired back; Schuck toppled over with a bullet in his leg. The gunmen scattered. One commandeered the car of Mrs. Samuel Solomon, who was on her way to a corset shop, lunged into Manhattan's heavy crosstown traffic. Klika, charging after him, jumped on the running board. Just as he did, the gunman put his gun to his head and shot himself. He was identified as Lyman Finnell, ex-convict and parole violator. Several blocks away another of the thugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mrs. O'Brien Says a Prayer | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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