"Bob Hope once introduced her as 'the two and only Jane Russell,' and on another occasion defined high culture as 'the ability to describe Jane Russell without using your hands.' Teenage men of all ages were further titillated by the story that Howard Hughes had invented a cantilevered bra to enhance the Russell assets. 'He designed it,' she told me over the lunch of breast of chicken, 'but I never wore it and he never noticed. He should have kept to designing airplanes.'"