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Insuring women's legs against damage and destruction has been a very good policy for Lloyd's of London, which has insured more women's legs than any other body part. "The fad began with Betty Grable, whose legs were insured for one million dollars in the 1940s," Dian Hanson, an editor at Leg Show magazine, writes in "The Big Book of Legs," a coffee-table tome from Taschen. "Though it was simply a publicity stunt arranged by the 20th Century Fox film studio, it was quite an effective one, leading Universal to insure Angie Dickinson »

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