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Died. Madeleine Vionnet, 98, grande dame of French couture; in Paris. Vionnet, as she was simply known, began her trade as an apprentice seamstress at the age of eleven in 1887, opened her own fashion house in 1912, and flourished till her retirement in 1940. She preferred to drape fabric on a wooden mannequin rather than sketch her designs. Her main innovation was the bias cut, in which cloth is scissored at an angle to the weave, rendering it more elastic and clingy. Her soft, often layered dresses moved with the wearer's body and helped to usher...
...must be the model of purity and probity at home, but she must be Everywoman outside, with a ready smile and a cheerful word for all the importuning bores on the campaign trail. Writes Ellen Proxmire: "She is first and always a mother, a cook, a chauffeur, a seamstress and a homemaker, but she is also an adviser, a social secretary, a campaigner and even a TV personality...
...more than six weeks the 1,700 citizens of Tylertown, Miss., waited on tiptoe for their first celebrity visitor in decades. Last week Martha Mitchell blew into town accompanied by her personal seamstress. Ostensibly on hand for the wedding of her son Jay Jennings to a local girl and fellow dropout from the University of Mississippi Law School Janis Crawford, Martha quickly took the mint out of everyone's juleps...
Died. Ilona Massey, 62, golden-haired, Budapest-born actress and songstress; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. Massey worked her way from seamstress to chorus girl to operatic leads in Vienna, where at 25 she was signed by an MGM talent scout. In 1939 she played a sultry Russian singer as Nelson Eddy's co-star in the Hollywood musical Balalaika, later cut up on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies (1943-44) and fooled with the Marx Brothers in Love Happy...
Rosa Parks, L.H.D., the seamstress whose refusal to give up her seat triggered the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, and who now works for a Michigan Congressman. Truly, when you sat down in a Montgomery, Ala., bus, all men and women were freed to stand more humanly erect. Harrison E. Salisbury, Litt.D., New York Times editor and correspondent...