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...Gossard soon ran into one ideal figure that he hadn't bargained for: the boyish form of the '20s, when many a flapper discarded her corsets entirely, and some even wore tight bindings to flatten out their bosoms. Some corsetiers folded under this frontal assault. Not only did the Gossard company survive (Founder Henry retired in 1923) by turning out the flimsiest excuses for girdles, but it even bought out six competitors to form Associated Apparel Industries, Inc., then the biggest outfit in the business...
Until his early 20s, Andre Kostelanetz never allowed a Tin Pan Alley tune to get into his rigidly classical musical diet. Born in St. Petersburg 49 years ago, he studied piano at the conservatory, became an assistant conductor at the Mariinsky Theater before he was 20. But during the civil strife of the early '20s, Kostelanetz grew restless...
Clara (The "It" Girl) Bow, forty-five-ish, auburn-haired epitome of flaming youth in the roaring '20s ,whose truckload of boy friends included an Hungarian, an Italian, an Indian and young Gary Cooper, was still threatening to write her memoirs...
...20s, according to Novelist Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited, the smart Oxford undergraduate ate plovers' eggs, read T. S. Eliot, drove a Morris-Cowley two-seater, might even carry a pet Teddy bear around with...
Died. Douglas McGarel Hogg, first Viscount Hailsham, 78, one of Britain's ablest jurists and staunchest Tories, Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State for War and Lord President of the Council during the '20s and '30s; in Hurstmonceaux, England. Viscount Hailsham's father, Quintin Hogg, was a wealthy reformer, founded London's Polytechnic Institute. Viscount Hailsham's eldest son, Quintin McGarel Hogg (who now succeeds to the title and a seat in the House of Lords), is an M.P., a brilliant lawyer, and author (The Case for Conservatism...