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...brassiere end of the business quickly eclipsed the dresses. Maidenform was founded in 1923 with Mrs. Rosenthal's husband William as a partner. It grew fast, especially in the 1930s, when fashions forsook the boyish look. Mr. Rosenthal designed the brassieres and Mrs. Rosenthal handled the sales and financing. Maidenform pioneered in mass production, time studies and special machinery to make brassieres. During World War II, recalls Mrs. Rosenthal, "we got priority because women workers who wore an uplift were less fatigued than others...
Born in Hannover in 1887, Schwitters forsook the realism of his academic art training to become associated first with the sardonic Paul Klee, then with the Dadaists and such pioneer abstract painters as Piet Mondrian. But all his life Schwitters made a modest living painting realistic portraits aimed at pleasing the sitter. In 1919 he branched away from the Dadaists, founded his own movement, which he called Merz. The word had no meaning, but came from a fragment of a piece of newsprint bearing the phrase Commerz-und Privatbank that he had pasted on one of his collages. "Merz...
...last week Tibetans, hardy as any mountain people, forsook prudence and took the field in a seemingly hopeless, idealistic action that pitted an almost unarmed nation of a million people against the might and power of 650 million Red Chinese. Alone in the mountain-locked fastness of their native land, Tibetans-like the Hungarians before them in 1956-could expect to stir the sympathy of the free world, but they could hardly count on any real help from it. Red repression in Lhasa coulu be even more brutal than in Budapest-for who would know what had been done...
...face belonged to 43-year-old Hyman Marcus, onetime mathematics teacher who forsook ivied halls for finance. In 1952 Marcus bought into the debt-ridden U.S. Hoffman Machinery Corp., a money-losing pressing-and-dry-cleaning-machine company. After he gained control, Marcus announced grandiose plans to buy up profitable subsidiaries to create a holding company. With plenty of favorable publicity, the company shares rose to $22 a share before the bubble burst and sent the price down...
...last year's Suez crisis, the U.S., as rarely before in the history of nations, forsook the rule of power for the rule of law. At basic issue was Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal, and U.S. Government lawyers were by no means sure that Britain and France had the stronger legal case. When Britain and France fell back on force, the U.S. supported Egypt against longstanding allies. "There can be no peace without law," said President Eisenhower. "And there could be no law if we were to invoke one code of international conduct for those...