Word: kellerman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, Annette Kellerman, who was arrested in Boston 40 years ago for introducing the one-piece bathing suit, was scandalized at the trend she had set in motion. Still trim at 62, she said: "Bathing suits were lovely until last year when they brought out those diapers. They're vulgar and suggestive. Heavens! What will they be wearing...
...Just as widely, in fact, as Annette Kellerman, who pioneered the one-piece bathing suit and starred in a 1914 movie also entitled Neptune's Daughter...
...Wiley, chairman of the legislative committee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (representing 2,500,000 women), thought Esquire's Varga Girl drawings "obscene," was shocked by a picture of a modern bathing beauty. Shown a 30-year-old photograph of onetime swimming champion Annette Kellerman and asked if she thought it, too, was indecent, she cagily declined to commit herself except to say she had always admired Miss Kellerman as "a great exponent of health...
...Annette Kellerman, shapely shocker of yesteryear, one-piece bathing-suit pioneer: now 55, trouping for the Australian Red Cross. From Sydney she wrote to show business' trade paper Variety: "I've been booked solid for three years on the V. S. Circuit [Voluntary Service-Red Cross theatrical unit]. We don't even get doughnuts ... [I am] writing my own show, words & music...
...Works. But when he married "Mama" Leibovitz, he gave up art, started a shoeshop in a residential section which gradually became a crowded Negro slum. By the time the twins, next to last of the ten Leibovitz children, began drawing and coloring, the family lived in bitter poverty. Morris Kellerman, president of American Lending Libraries (drugstore chain), discovered them, enabled the family to find a decent home. Samuel Fleisher, public-spirited Philadelphian, crusader for "Cultural Olympics" (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), got the twins in the Graphic Sketch Club which he supported. At 14 Freda & Ida were girl wonders who insisted...