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“Having darned and put away the last pair of bobby socks, Corliss went downstairs”
[and later]
Within the last few months she had been promoted from bobby socks to stockings”
The father in this story was an Attorney. Apparently, the Archers were a prosperous family, and extrapolating backward, the great depression was merely a speed bump for them.
Meet Corliss Archer” was first published in 1942, when the outcome of the war was still uncertain.
My copy was published in 1944, and according to what was written inside by a previous owner, was presented as a gift on Dec 1945, with Europe and Asia in rubble, people in the USA must have felt rather smug back then, whereas since 1968 we have been gradually declining ever since. (Actually, you could argue that 1968 was a point of inflection, and the actual decline began around 1977.)
“MEET CORLISS ARCHER” by F. HUGH HERBERT
Cameras both still and motion loved Shirley Temple
like no one else! Shirley portrayed Corliss Archer in the movies.
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Big-time bobby-soxing:
& Ginger:
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High School teacher,
who lived in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles.
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Janet Mason (PTA soccer mom!) wearing a garter belt:
& Rebecca Starr:
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The amazing movie “Soldier in the Rain” with Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason, along with Tuesday Weld and Tom Poston (Don’t confuse with Orson Bean!), had a scene where McQueen took polaroid pictures of a soldier in drag,
trying to win a pin up photo contest!
“Root a toot toot.”
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Elsewhere:
Sometimes he would require mature women
to dress like little girls, before ravaging them!
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Helen:
