Word: needleworked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henrietta Kanengeiser never learned to cut a dress; her needlework was atrocious, and if she ventured to baste a hem it was likely to sag. Yet she wore clothes with a verve that trailed rapt feminine stares behind her like smoke from a gold-tipped cigarette. And she had an intuitive sense for that ill-defined and mysterious quality, taste. To two generations of American women Henrietta-or, as she was better known, Hattie Carnegie-was the quintessence of feminine fashion. Last week, at 69, Hattie Carnegie died of cancer, and left few peers in the bewildering business of adorning...
Across the country, the needlework that the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had sought to hasten for 8,500,000 first-and second-graders was being stilled. More and more parents were withdrawing permission. Virtually all the vaccine that had been approved and re-approved was used up. Dr. Scheele was confident that some vaccine, already finished, could be released by the middle of this week, and that the flow would increase rapidly. But all sights had been lowered: the best he could hope for was completion of the foundation's priority program by Aug. 15. All manufacturers...
...centenarians was that they had kept busy. A banker who turned over his business at the age of 100 to his son immediately became active as an organizer of boys' clubs. A woman of 113 was putting several great-grandchildren in succession through college with earnings from needlework. Reasoned Dr. Dunbar: "Retirement and enforced education in leisure defeat their own goal. Those who remain healthy after age 65 wish to work, and they stay healthy because they work...
...told then that grass and trees would not grow in the sand, but her sprawling white ranch house now stands in a grove of hackberry and willow trees and on a velvet green lawn. Inside are her collections of Early American glass, beer steins, colonial furniture and needlework...
...meet these objections, Dr. Salk has had a busy season of needlework. In little more than five weeks he has inoculated almost 5,000 children in. the Pittsburgh area. Some have had three shots, some two, some one, all with vaccine made in his own laboratory. Now Dr. Salk has begun a marathon vaccinating program. Switching to commercial vaccine, he will try to inoculate 2,500 children this week and finish their quota of shots in time for the foundation to begin mass trials in the South about April 12. By then, enough commercial vaccine will be ready...