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Kenneth G. Macqueen, who developed the demon knitter, began his career as a medical student but "whammed out be cause I wasn't much good." Then he manufactured rubber facial replacements for disfigured war victims. "To make sure they would stick," he says, "I sandpapered my tum and fixed an ear onto it with cement and wore it four months...
NYLON stockings will soon be sheerer. Karl Lieberknecht, Inc. of Reading, Pa., one of the top knitting-machine makers, is producing a new 75-gauge knitter (current highest: 72 gauge) that will turn out the sheerest stockings ever made from 12-denier nylon staple...
Sprawling Kensington, Pa., centre of the U. S. hosiery industry, has seen some sad sights. It has seen its busy mills-where in the palmy days before depression and improved machinery began to displace labor, a good knitter could make $125 a week-oust workers for machines; then close themselves for lack of work...
...after little more than six weeks, the knitter is conspicuous everywhere. Philosophers, mostly men, agree that for large projects and noble ideals man is supreme. Nothing could prove more strikingly than knitting woman's devotion to the small things. . . . To see a knitter adding a few stitches between stops in a train or omnibus, purling two or casting off between glimpses of Mr. Cooper and Miss Colbert on the screen-this is an object lesson in concentration and in kindly devotion...
...While Knitter John Cann was distinguishing himself in Boston last week, Canner David Hippie was likewise distinguishing himself in Chicago. A 45-year-old bachelor who runs a fruit farm near Elgin, Ill., Canner Hippie, competing with 100 women in the Cook County Fair, got first prize for a jar of his blackberry...