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...mother agreed. "He's a reactionary," she said, "diametrically opposed to me." Mrs. Landy, a widow who works as a seamstress in a Belmar, N.J. garment factory, said she had joined the Communist Party in 1937 because she was lonely and it offered friends. "I never intended to bring about a revolution," she said. "I never found Communism to be a conspiracy. Out here in this rural area it was more of a Kaffeeklatsch." Mrs. Landy said she quit the party about eight years ago, but still misses her comrades. Why. then, did she leave them? Said...
...school, Claire's grades were low, but at home, her flair for clothes showed early. She cut paper dolls out of her mother's discarded fashion magazines, traipsed around after the family seamstress. She started making her own clothes in her teens, sometimes using sketches she made of theatrical costumes on occasional family trips to Washington's National Theater...
...trial, Braden denied that he was a Communist. Then last week Alberta Ahearn, 44, a Louisville seamstress who had been an undercover FBI agent, testified that she had not only attended a party-cell meeting in Braden's home, but had paid her party dues to him. With that clinching evidence of Braden's Communist activity and his conviction, the Courier-Journal at long last came around to agreeing with its critics, fired Braden...
...Miss Lennie Green, 41, a Negro, daughter of a Pullman porter and a seamstress. As a child she fell in love with Latin and music, eventually won her master's at Atlanta University with a thesis on the letters of Pliny the Younger. An accomplished pianist, violinist and violist. Miss Green now teaches music at Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School, also gives piano lessons at home. Over the years she has set hundreds of students to playing string quartets, singing chorales, attending symphony concerts in the city ("They come around to see her," says her mother...
...shad ow of Montmartre's Sacre-Coeur. The cards were pretty well stacked against her. Father was an ex-coal miner from the provinces who had come to Paris full of self-assurance and wound up as an ill-paid laborer. Mother was a seamstress, a slim country redhead with a profound conviction that life would not hold much...