MODERN LIVING: In the Swim

How brief can bathing suits get? Is it possible that some day they will disappear altogether? John Adam Zehntbauer, who runs the biggest swimsuit company in the nation, quite naturally thinks not; in fact, he is convinced they have already got too brief. As longtime president of Jantzen Knitting Mills Inc., Zehntbauer has probably done more than any other man to take the female form out of billowing bathing dresses and bloomers and encase it in a tight suit. But Zehntbauer's suits have rarely gone to extremes; with hidden tricks and elastic...

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