Meet Professor Shrinkproof (Apr, 1949)


Meet Professor Shrinkproof
John Derrig’s home is his laboratory and his family the guinea pigs. They all take a heating so he can test fabrics the hard way.
By Wilfred Weiss
DOROTHY Derrig was coming down the walk in front of her house at Bound Brook, N. J., in an exquisite sheer-net party dress. Suddenly her husband John whipped around the corner with the garden hose, like a fireman who had overslept a three-alarmer. He squirted the full spray on his pretty wife and soaked that long, lovely gown from neck to hemline.
“It’s just fine, John,” she stood there and remarked sweetly—without making a move to dash back into the house and look up the nearest divorce lawyer in the classified phone book. “See, it hasn’t lost a bit of its crispness! The water is rolling right off.”
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