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...strangling spree began last June, when Seamstress Anna Slesers, 55, was found in her kitchen, a blue bathrobe belt wrapped tight around her throat. Two weeks later, greying Physiotherapist Nina Nichols, 68, was found on her bedroom floor, two knotted stockings around her neck. Two days later, it was Helen Blake, 65, a practical nurse, found strangled by two knotted stockings entwined with a brassiere. Eight days more, and Margaret Davis, 60, was discovered manually strangled in a cheap hotel room. On Aug. 21, Ida Irga, 75, was throttled with a pillowcase; her body was found on her living-room...
...Barbara ("Toni") Welch Gibbons Peabody, 40, got her political schooling from her father, Morris A. Gibbons, who has been a member of Bermuda's colonial parliament for 40 years. Says "Chub" Peabody's cousin, Rosemary de Suze: "Toni is a marvelous cook, she is a marvelous seamstress, a marvelous mother and a marvelous wife. She will tackle anything and do it well." Sniffs a Boston society editor: "Chub would never have made it without her." He met Toni early in 1944, when he was stationed at a submarine base in Bermuda. Toni, a green-eyed blonde...
Spalding's assurance that today's sluggers are hitting the same old ball is confirmed by its chief seamstress. Mrs. Beryl Gauthier, 49. Mrs. Gauthier heads a crew of 75 women who finish the ball-making process by closing the cover seams with exactly 108 double stitches of red yarn. No baseball fan ("Who's Roger Maris?"), Seamstress Gauthier is firm about her craft: "The ball is just the same as it ever...
...sooner was he out again than he started producing more cartoons for another magazine. In 1846, at the age of 38, he married a young seamstress and settled down in an apartment on the Quai d'Anjou. There, in a bare attic studio, using crayons until they were so worn that he could no longer hold them, and whistling the latest music-hall tunes, Daumier turned out lithographs of arrogant aristocrats, greedy landlords, sour-faced men and nagging wives, sinister lawyers and pompous judges. In one scene, a judge says to a half-starved prisoner: "So you were hungry...
...Degas' case, the subject was apt to be a ballet dancer; in Soyer's, it might be a young actress, a painter or a seamstress. But all his figures-whether a girl, a member of his family, or even himself-have the same bemused quality. "When people are by themselves, they begin to look like that, ' he explains. "Even in a crowd, they walk against you without seeing you,' their expression a kind of moody emptiness " Soyer's people live in a world of subdued color, curbed motion and meticulous design; yet they brim with...