Supporting Jane Russell
I didn't see The Outlaw when it titillated audiences and irritated censors back in 1943. Turner Classics recently ran it for us who wonder (as in Wonder Bra) what all the fuss was about. I was mighty impressed with the cantilevered bra that Howard Hughes designed for Jane Russell.
It gets even better when you know what a cantilever is. It's a beam supported on only one end. It carries the load to the support where it is resisted by shear stress. They use them for building bridges and structures that project horizontally into space.
Why do I keep staring at photos of Jane's horizontal structure and the marvelous appliance that engineer Hughes designed to support it? Why can't I leave 'er?
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Friend Harry Heuser's punny comment is the best part of this one:
Bra-vo! Rarely has the matter in question been captured so well.
There’s a tricky design
of the cantilevered kind
of which canny Mr. Hughes,
made such clever use
that I’ve got “cantaloupes” on my mind.
