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Steadfast Bra. The first bra on the market with Velcro, the nonmetallic, zipper-like fastener made of thousands of tiny nylon hooks and loops (TIME, Sept. 8), is being test-marketed by Charmfit of Hollywood. The bra fastens in the front, thus can be easily put on. Cost...
...makes it sound like the easiest, as she concocts a wistful chant out of Oscar Levant's Blame It on my Youth, throbs through Limehouse Blues, races with a fine, light lilt through The Springtime Cometh, a take-off an old English madrigal ("Gaily skippeth, nylon rippeth, zipper zippeth, whoop-de-do, which is to say, the springtime cometh"). For Cole Porter's urbane lyrics, her precise, finishing-school inflection provides just the right sophistication...
...Captain William Bligh noted 169 years ago after he was cast away by the Bounty mutineers, some of his lifeboat companions went weeks with no bowel movement, had no lasting ill effects. For a trip to the moon, the Air Force thinks it now has an airtight zipper-type fastening for pressure suits that will enable the pilot to function like a duck hunter opening the flap on his long-Johns; the fecal matter will go into plastic bags, be deodorized and stowed unobtrusively...
...Moran (real name: James Brocato), 61, New Orleans restaurateur, onetime prizefighter, bodyguard of Governor Huey Long, flashy-dressing sporting figure who liked to show up at such events as the Kentucky Derby wearing diamonds from head to toe, including diamond-studded teeth and a few carats on the zipper of his pants; of a heart attack; in New Orleans...
...luscious performance of some of the late master's wittiest notes, including the pompous march (ironically made famous by its use as the theme for radio's FBI in Peace and War). One of Westminster's plush "Laboratory Series," it comes in a heavy-plastic zipper envelope and is premium-priced. The sound is very good indeed...