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• Ida and William Rosenthal were Russian immigrants who came to America penniless. Ida was a dressmaker and they set up their own business, with her handling finances and sales and him doing the design and tailoring. They were constantly dissatisfied with the way dresses fit around the female bosom. In frustration - and also perhaps in rebellion to the popular flat-chested look of the flapper - they invented the first form-fitting bra which had a separate rounded pocket for each breast and came to a point.

• Since all women are not built equally, Ida invented the cup size. They were granted their first patent for the “uplift bra” in 1927. The dresses did indeed fit better. They gave up the dress shop and started the Maidenform Brassiere Company with a capital investment of $4,500 in 1922. Four years later, they had 40 machines turning out mass-produced bras.

Forty years later, they had 19 factories producing 25 million bras annually.

• Maidenform stayed on the forefront of brassier development. They began marketing bras for every stage of a woman’s life from puberty through old age.

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• During World War II when fabric was in short supply, Maidenform rounded out its line to include vests worn by carrier pigeons in order to help out with the war effort and prevent the company from going bust.

• When the war ended, many new fabrics were available to work with: silk, rayon, and nylon. In 1949, Maidenform introduced the Chansonette bra which had a cone-shaped cup stitched in a whirlpool pattern. The bra, which never changed shape when it was removed, was quickly dubbed the “Bullet Bra.” Over 90 million sold worldwide over the next 30 years after being popularized by Lana Turner in her tight sweaters. The side view showed her bust projecting at a 90 degree angle from her body. Anyone, however flat-chested they might be, could look like Lana if they had one of those bras.

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• Also in 1949, an advertising copyrighter came up with the slogan, “I Dreamed I Was [fill in the blank] In My Maidenform Bra.” Ads showed women proudly shopping, dancing, attending the theater in their bras and little else, a campaign that skirted the edges of propriety and lasted two decades.

• When William died in 1958, Ida carried on and continued to oversee the company until her death in 1973 at the age of 87. The Maidenform corporation, which started with 10 employees, grew to over 5,000 workers.

PLAYTEX

• Abram Nathaniel Spanel was an inventor with over 2,000 patents. Spanel founded the International Latex Corporation in Rochester, New York in 1932 to make items out of latex such as bathing caps, aprons, girdles, and bras. Later the name of the company was changed, taking “latex” and adding it to “play” to create Playtex. ...continued

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• The Playtex Company was very forward with their advertising. In 1940, when underwear was sold primarily through discreet line drawings in catalogs, Playtex placed a full page ad in Life Magazine showing photos of models wearing Playtex undies along with a mail-in coupon. Life claims that some 200,000 sales were made because of that ad.

• In 1954 Playtex became the first company ever to advertise bras and girdles on TV. In 1965, Playtex introduced the Cross Your Heart bra. Today it remains one of the best known brands in the U.S. and is the second best-selling brand of bra Playtex offers, with the 18-Hour Bra filling out the top spot.

JANE RUSSELL

• Howard Hughes, tycoon and film producer, also had his hand in the bra business. In 1941 he invented the half-cup bra in order to flaunt the bust of 19-year-old Jane Russell in the film “The Outlaw.” The bras she wore either squashed her flat or failed to provide enough support. Hughes designed an aerodynamic bra that was so well reinforced that it turned Jane’s bosom into a shelf.

Censors had a fit.

• Century-Fox cancelled the release date due to the controversy. Millions of dollars stood to be lost.

So, Hughes set all of his managers to work, phoning ministers, women’s clubs, and housewives to tell them exactly how scandalous this film was.

This prompted wild protests as crowds of people insisted the film be banned. The publicity machine launched into full gear and the film, when it was finally released, was a guaranteed hit.

• On opening night, skywriters were hired to decorate the California skies with a pair of large circles with dots in their centers. It was billed as “the bra that saved Hollywood.” ...continued

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• On Jan. 16, 1938, Benny Goodman brings jazz to Carnegie Hall, a notion so outlandish at the time that Goodman himself initially laughed off the idea. The concert at the citadel of American high culture sold out weeks in advance.

• On Jan. 14, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issues Presidential Proclamation No. 2537, requiring aliens from World War II-enemy countries -- Italy, Germany and Japan -- to register with the Department of Justice.

• On Jan. 17, 1950, 11 men steal more than $2 million ($22 million today) from the Brink's Armored Car depot in Boston. It was the perfect crime --almost -- as the culprits weren't caught until January 1956, just days before the statute of limitations for the theft expired.

• On Jan. 11, 1973, the owners of America's 24 major league baseball teams vote to allow teams in the American League to use a "designated pinchhitter" that could bat for the pitcher, while still allowing the pitcher to stay in the game.

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• Jane Russell, an unknown before this film, had her career boosted to incredible heights. She later became the spokesperson for Playtex, a job she held until 1986. Years later she revealed in her autobiography that she had found the Howard Hughes bra so uncomfortable that she had only worn it once in the privacy of her dressing room. Thereafter, she shored up her own bra and wore it instead. No one was ever the wiser.

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• The inflatable bra came out in 1952 and was called the Very Secret bra. It had expandable air pockets that would help every woman achieve “the perfect contour.” It could be discreetly inflated with a hidden hand pump. This product gave rise to many myths concerning how they sometimes exploded when ladies wore them on poorly pressurized airplanes. Pinning on a corsage became a challenge.

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• Hindah Miller and Liza Rosenthal were friends who enjoyed jogging but didn’t like the lack of support their normal bras offered. Lingerie stores had nothing to offer them, so they decided to make their own. In 1977 the two women stitched together two jock straps and tested it out. Not only did it work, but their original prototype is now displayed in the Smithsonian.

In 1978 the two inventors sold $3,840 worth of their bras to sporting apparel stores in five states. In 1997, Jogbra sales topped $65 million across 22 countries. They were bought out

by Playtex in 1990 and Sara Lee subsequently bought out Playtex. Sara Lee was a sponsor of the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 and they made sure the U.S. women’s teams were all outfitted with their product.

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• The average person will grow 590 miles of hair in their lifetime. Nose hairs alone contribute 6.5 feet of that.

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• While adult giraffes usually sleep standing up, their offspring get more comfortable by hunkering down on the ground and taking advantage of their extraflexible necks, twisting around to plop their heads on their own posteriors.

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• If something unexpected comes up in the course of a game, everything is cancelled and “all bets are off.”

• The Latin word “ante” means “before” and when you “ante up” or “up the ante” you are placing your bet before the hand is played.

• In card games where the goal is to take a trick, players are required to play a card in the same suite as the person who plays first, so they must “follow suit.” If you have a lot of that sort of card, it’s your “strong suit.”

• In the game of bridge, spades is the highest suit, so if you have a lot of them, you are well set for the game.

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• At the end of each round of poker, players “lay their cards on the table” and “show their hand” to see who is the winner and who was bluffing.

• The object of shuffling the cards before every hand is so that each individual card “gets lost in the shuffle” and its position within the deck cannot be ascertained.

• If you have overestimated the value of the cards you hold, you have “overplayed your hand.”

• In card games such as poker, sometimes a marker or buck is placed in front of the person who is to deal the next game. Every time the deal passes, players also “pass the buck.”

• In early days of poker, someone would place a special marker, usually a jack knife, into the pot and whoever won that pot could keep the jack knife until it was their turn to deal. Then the jack knife would be put back into the pot again and it was called a jackpot.

• Clover comes from the Anglo-Saxon word "cloefer" meaning club. Hercules had a club which had three heads, and the clover plant has bracts of three leaves.

The club on decks of cards come from the clover plant.

• In the mid-1800s in Europe, a popular card game called Juckerspiel became a fad. The word “jucker” meant “jack” and “spiel” meand “game.” “Jucker” turned into not only the word “joker” but also the word “euchre.” Today the game of euchre is still popular. The joker was invented for the game of euchre, basically being a glorified jack. In euchre and many other games, the joker is either the trump card, or a wild card.

• A “trump” card beats all others, and originates with the same root word that gives us “triumph.”

• When the game of “21” swept the country in popularity, gambling establishments would offer a special bonus if the winning hand contained either a jack of spades or a jack of clubs. That’s how the game became known as blackjack.

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• A table used to be called a board, as in “room and board.” When you’re playing “above board” you’re showing that you’re not cheating by keeping your hands above the table.

• If a soothsayer was dealing tarot cards and making prognostications from that, an event might be said to be “in the cards.”

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CARD GAME PHRASES

• If someone arranges the order of cards to give someone an unfair advantage, they have “stacked the deck.”

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A family member is undergoing serious medical treatment. They just learned that his nurse tested positive for COVID. Is anyone else tired of the need for constant vigilance because of COVID? The inability to acquire basic goods and sometimes food? The constant sad stories of seniors who are in rehab centers who haven't had visitors in months?

That's probably what breaks my heart the most, all those lonely seniors in nursing homes or retirement centers.

I can't do anything about the state of the world, but I can do this: Over the next week I'm going to send individual notes and cards to the residents of a local nursing home. I got all their first names and last initials from the facility director, and I've ordered a big box of miscellaneous greeting cards. Each one will get a note and a cheery card from me. Maybe it will help brighten their day for a few minutes. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc. It's the best I can do.

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by Freddy Groves

At Ease: Sarge and the Coffee Shop Vets

There wasn't a single veteran on the sidewalk outside the coffee shop. I was saddened by this, believing they couldn't continue their morning meetings because of the cold weather. Still, I approached the carry-out window to order a hot drink -- and saw that the whole bunch of them were inside, all seated 6 feet apart in their lawn chairs.

I poked my head through the door and was waved in.

"I have an announcement," Sarge said from his perch on a stool at the counter. He rapped his COVID measuring stick on the floor. "We can't stay out in the cold all winter," he said. "So, I bought this place. VA smallbusiness loan. Welcome to our new clubhouse."

The group exploded with questions, of course. He explained, "I bought it, but we're the only ones who will be allowed in here. To keep to all the virus rules, we'll sell coffee through the window, maybe make hot meals for homeless vets if anybody knows how to cook. But you all have to sign up as employees."

That naturally got a huge reaction about government regulations, phony COVID stats and privacy. "We're limited in how many we can have in here," he countered, "unless you're employees. In case somebody rats us out and sends the authorities around."

Sarge was serious, and he had the paperwork to prove it. He waved a sheaf of documents and handed out a stack of W-4 forms. They all got busy writing in their names and Social Security numbers on documents that would never be sent to the IRS. "You up for it, son?" He waved a form at me.

What the heck, right? I know how to cook, courtesy of the Army. So I took the form and filled it out. I knew I was officially admitted to the group, after all this time, when Sarge told me to bring a lawn chair.

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• Max Thuna and Michael Wolf sat down to a game of poker in Florida in 1927. When the game ended, Wolf wrote a $600 check to Thuna, drawn on his New York bank. When Thuna tried to cash the check a few days later, Wolf had cancelled payment. Wolf claimed that in New York, the law said that civil contracts based on gambling are void. Thuna claimed that was not the case in Florida, where the game took place. Thuna took it to court. The New York jury sided with Thuna, but when it was appealed, the verdict went against Thuna. He lost his $600 poker winnings, and had to pay court costs of $111.

• In 1931 in a poker game in a gambling hall in Louisiana, a player was accused of cheating and ordered to leave the game. He left— but returned with a shotgun and killed the dealer. The dealer’s widow later applied to collect on his life insurance policy. The insurance company refused to pay on the basis that the poker dealer had been engaged in an illegal activity at the time of his death, thereby negating his policy. City Court sided with the widow, but the Court of Appeal gave the verdict to the insurance company.

• A card sharp named Bianco bought a huge supply of playing cards. He opened every pack, marked them, and sealed them so no one could tell they'd been tampered with. Then he sold them at a great loss to casinoes in Havana, Cuba. The cards were so cheap that soon all the dealers were using them. Next Bianco travelled to Havana and really cleaned up, until a French gambler took a deck home to mark— and was surprised to find them already marked. He traced the cards to Bianco and blackmailed him into splitting the profits. Bianco left the country. The French gambler was later caught cheating and taken to court. At his trial he was acquitted after showing that all ...cont'd the decks in the city were marked.

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ANTICS & ANECDOTES

• Writer Franklin Adams was playing poker with actor Herbert Ransom. Ransom was unable to hide his emotions whenever he held a good hand, leading Adams to declare, “Whoever looks at Ransom's face is cheating!”

• A friend complained to actor Samuel Foote that he had once been thrown out of a secondfloor window for cheating at cards. He asked for Foote's advice. “Do not play so high,” was the response.

DIFFERENCES:: DIFFERENCES 1. Sign on shovel is different. 2. Window on door is missing. 3. Doorknob is added. 4. Man's hat is different.

5. Tree trunk is wider. 6. Man's nose is shorter. © 2020 King Features Synd., All rights reserved.

• After King Farouk I of Egypt was driven from his throne in a 1952 coup, he remarked, “One day there will only be five kings left: hearts, spades, diamonds, clubs, and England.”

• The Missouri Railroad banned gambling on their trains after one of their directors lost $1,200 to a card sharp.

• A town in Kansas which could not agree on a name decided to settle the matter with a poker game. The winner would choose the town's name. E. H. Cawker won the game and the town is now called Cawker.

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• John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, was a compulsive gambler in the 1700s. He was so reluctant to leave a card game even for a meal that he had a servant bring him a piece of meat between two slices of bread so he could eat with one hand and play cards with the other.

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