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...brief can bathing suits get? Is it possible that some day they will disappear altogether? John Adam Zehntbauer, who runs the biggest swimsuit company in the nation, quite naturally thinks not; in fact, he is convinced they have already got too brief. As longtime president of Jantzen Knitting Mills Inc., Zehntbauer has probably done more than any other man to take the female form out of billowing bathing dresses and bloomers and encase it in a tight suit. But Zehntbauer's suits have rarely gone to extremes; with hidden tricks and elastic yarn, they have been designed to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: In the Swim | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Flamboyant imagination is not necessary to fly with the First Pixie Squadron to the Technicolor world of Never Land. Tinkerbelle, a fetching sprite in a clinging Jantzen, sprinkles the Darling family with so much pixie dust that ample remains for the audience. From there on, Indians, Pirates, songs, and the Boys make everyone wish they were seeing the show for the first time. Maude Adams and Jean Arthur, after all, never really could fly; this...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Peter Pan | 2/12/1953 | See Source »

...Song of the Islands" has its advantages, mostly in sarongs and bathing suits. Innumerable opportunities to display Betty Grable and Victor Mature in Jantzen's best are not filmed as they might be. Miss Grable's effectiveness is somewhat marred by the necessities of a plot, and Thomas Mitchell is wasted on a part entirely devoid of the depth that is requisite for an outstanding Mitchell performance. In the face of the drawbacks, the movie combines several harmless tunes with the purely physical efforts of Jack Oakie to be funny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/4/1942 | See Source »

...temporarily exempt from registration include ones like the Wheeling, W. Va., the Louisville, Ky. and the Reno, Nev. exchanges. On the Richmond Stock Exchange Virginians dabble in tobaccos, local utilities, Southern bank and insurance shares. The Seattle Stock Exchange is divided between mining issues and Pacific Coast industries like Jantzen Knitting (bathing suits), Carnation Co. (milk) and Alaska Pacific Salmon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Little Markets | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...second Brown game he relinquished his position as fourth man in the batting order to Devens. The averages for the other members of the team are as follows: Gleason .261, McCaffrey .259, Sheldon .255, Adams .250, Fincke .234, Ware .200, Thacher .187, Taylor .111, Lockwood, Valeuski, and Jantzen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wood Leads Harvard Batting With .491 Average as Entire Team Hits .300--Devens Has 109 Strikeouts in 78 Innings | 6/3/1932 | See Source »

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