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    Caresse Crosby (born Mary Phelps Jacob; April 20, 1892 – January 24, 1970) was the recipient of a patent for the first successful modern bra, an American...
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    Ernest Hemingway, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Polly took the name Caresse, and Crosby and she founded the Black Sun Press. It was the first to publish...
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  • Manikin Press. American expatriates living in Paris, Harry Crosby and his wife Caresse Crosby (American inventor of the modern bra) founded the press to...
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    difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad." The heiress Caresse Crosby, the inventor of the brassiere, organized a farewell fancy dress ball...
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    first patent issued to Mary Phelps Jacob, later and better known as Caresse Crosby. In the 1930s, brassiere/brassière was gradually shortened to bra. The...
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  • literary journal published between 1945 and 1947. It was edited by Caresse Crosby and published through her Black Sun Press. Only six issues were published...
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  • executive. Cason Crane 2011, mountain climber Caresse Crosby 1910 (Mary Phelps Jacob, Mrs. Harry Crosby), socialite, poet Jamie Lee Curtis '76, BAFTA...
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    and Latin America. In 1910, Mary Phelps Jacob (known later in life as Caresse Crosby), a 19-year-old New York socialite, purchased a sheer evening gown for...
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    supplanted by the brassiere, first patented in the 20th century by Caresse Crosby. When the First World War broke out, women found themselves filling...
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    Barnes, Natalie Barney, Sylvia Beach, Erik Satie, Kay Boyle, Bryher, Caresse Crosby, Nancy Cunard, H.D., Janet Flanner, Jane Heap, Maria Jolas, Mina Loy...
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  • limited-run, loose-leaf broadside collection printed in 1946 and edited by Caresse Crosby. Failing to break into the literary world, Bukowski grew disillusioned...
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    Gertrude Stein, Stephen Vincent Benét, Aleister Crowley, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby, John Quinn, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, and many others. After Monnier's...
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  • Surrealismo: The Scandalous Success of Salvador Dali (TV – 2002) as Caresse Crosby The Falklands Play (TV – 2002) as Jeane Kirkpatrick Bob the Builder:...
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  • Polly Young (1749–1799), English soprano, composer and keyboard player Caresse Crosby (1891–1970), American art patron, poet, publisher, peace activist and...
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    Years: The Crosbys: Harry and Caresse". Bonjour Paris. Retrieved February 26, 2014. Wolff 2003, p. 12. Conover, Anne (1989). Caresse Crosby: From Black...
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  • disdain from the general population Mary Phelps Jacob, later known as Caresse Crosby, founded the organization during the 1950s. Part of her work for the...
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  • Night, Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice, Natasha in Three Sisters, Caresse Crosby in Divine Gossip (Barbican, 1988) and Katherine in The Strange Case...
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    In 1934, Lee began a love affair with publisher and peace activist Caresse Crosby, despite the threat of miscegenation laws. They often had lunch in uptown...
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  • Dorian Corey Victor Costa Michael Costello Jeffrey Costello Fannie Criss Caresse Crosby Kein Cross Candice Cuoco Caroline D'Amore Lilly Daché Laura Dahl Phoebe...
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    VAN R. CROSBY". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 November 2016. Greenberg, Arnie (4 April 2005). "The Glory Years: The Crosbys: Harry and Caresse". Bonjour...
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    living in Paris around Montparnasse. Among her friends were Harry and Caresse Crosby who owned the Black Sun Press and published her first work of fiction...
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    founder, awards Caresse Crosby '11 the eagle and the amulet, thereby making her the (unofficial) first American Girl Scout. 1911: Caresse Crosby graduates....
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  • whalebone corset, New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob (better known as Caresse Crosby) created the first brassière from two handkerchiefs and some ribbon...
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    buttocks. In 1914, New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob (better known as Caresse Crosby) patented the garment as "the backless brassiere"; after making a few...
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  • Editors who joined the journal later on were Stuart Gilbert, Caresse Crosby and Harry Crosby. Maeve Sage acted as secretary for the magazine during a portion...
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  • Brewster on the bra Duncan Trussell on Thomas Edison Cast: Parker Posey as Caresse Crosby Martin Starr as Alexander Graham Bell Jason Ritter as Elisha Gray Craig...
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  • English footballer. Bert Young may also refer to: Bert Young, husband of Caresse Crosby Bert Young (actor) in Nutty but Nice Albert Young (disambiguation) Robert...
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    Crosbys: Harry and Caresse". Bonjour Paris. Retrieved February 26, 2014. Wolff 1976, pp. 12. Conover, Anne (1989). Caresse Crosby: From Black Sun to Roccasinibalda...
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    London then to Paris. In Paris in February 1929, Harry Crosby, who with his wife Caresse Crosby owned the fine arts press Black Sun Press, offered Crane...
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    publishing individual chapters from Work in Progress. In 1929, Harry and Caresse Crosby, owners of the Black Sun Press, contacted James Joyce through bookstore...
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