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...from cutting and sewing rooms upstairs to finishing and storage rooms below. Similar patterns repeatedly form on the large wooden floors as workers unfold and spread out the sails to measure, cut and apply serial numbers to them. Designed in part by computers, the sails are made from special cloth manufactured by the Hood company in Marblehead and Fall River. This tightly woven cloth maintains sails' shapes without the customary use of resin which can disintegrate under stress and weathering...
Callaghan and Carter set out for Newcastle early Friday morning, followed by two planeloads of reporters. Carter seemed to be running for office all over again and, as always, was a politically-minded dresser. The blue cashmere suit he wore was made from a bolt of cloth that Callaghan had given Carter when the P.M. visited Washington in March. The discreet gray pinstripes are formed by the repetition of Carter's -and Callaghan's-initials (see sample at right). Carter no sooner arrived at Woolsington Airport near Newcastle on this cool and sometimes cloudy day than he plunged...
...soul dared suggest that Backhouse himself had written it. Now Trevor-Roper, revealing for the first time the backdrop of quiet scandals that made up Backhouse's life, concludes that the Sinologist was one of the greatest forgers of all time. His memoirs too were made of whole cloth, the lubricious dreams of a suppressed old Victorian...
...judges were Owen C. Thomas, an Episcopal priest at the Divinity School, Paul C. Reardon '32, a former Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice, and Mason Hammond '25, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus. As stipulated in the original grant for the contest, the judges represented the cloth, the bar and education...
...congressman and the priest are cut from the same cloth, a take-off on Watergate that uses a religious framework should have great potential. But Michael Lindsay-Hogg's film Nasty Habits relies too much on an ornamental frame--the format of transplanting the Watergate scenario to a Philadelphia convent--and leaves only a blank canvas for content...