Word: needlepointed
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...spread to the U.S. in the '20s. The most artlessly forthright paste-up in last week's show was made by Arthur Dove in 1925. Entitled Grandmother, it consisted of a needlepoint embroidery, a few shingles, a page from the Bible, a pressed flower and fern. But, except among commercial artists (who have found it useful), the trick never caught on in the U.S. as it did in Europe...
...month, employs her husband of three months, ex-G.I. Jack Stewart, as advertising director. Some of her issues look as cluttered as the inside of a stenographer's purse, but the stenographers seem to like it that way. The contents run to bootstrap success stories, needlepoint notes, advice on hairdos and boy friends, with a confidential editor's memo printed in Miss Oliver's own Gregg shorthand...
...quit school, became a soda jerk, then an insurance investigator-until a slight mathematical mistake on his part cost his firm $40,000. Once a dentist hired him to mind his office during lunch hour; Danny busied himself making needlepoint designs in the woodwork with the dentist's drill. Eventually, he and Eisen took their harmony act to station WBBC, Brooklyn. At last Danny thought he was getting somewhere...
...really "hot" aircraft. By midsummer the Marauders tackled the broad assignment of pounding the Luftwaffe's northwestern French airfields. By October Anderson could report that the enemy squadrons had been pushed inland 40 miles. He kept at it, developed new tactics for evading flak, trained his bombardiers to needlepoint precision...
...sitz bath for a last shampoo. Everywhere, scattered about the place, were grim reminders of his genteel background: a cold bottle of Tavel on the lowboy, a spray of pinks in a cut-glass bowl, an album held with a silver clasp, and his social-security card copied in needlepoint and framed on the wall. We begged the privilege of an interview. . . . Mr. Tilley let the comb drop into his lap, and turned half around, his magnincent profile etched in light from the window...