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While a band played and an American Legion color guard clicked to attention, a flag was sent proudly aloft last week in a newly paved Florida plaza named for Betsy Ross, U.S. seamstress and upholsterer.* The ceremony marked the official opening of "Salhaven," a multimillion-dollar retirement community for Betsy Ross's latter-day followers, the Upholsterers International Union...
Model's Secret. Born the illegitimate daughter of a hard-working peasant woman, Suzanne Valadon was raised in the Paris streets like countless gamins, working as a seamstress, waitress, vegetable seller, and drawing for pleasure on the sidewalks with pieces of coal. Tradition has it that she first caught the eye of Painter Puvis de Chavannes when she delivered his laundry. Struck by her slim figure and natural grace, he made her the model for all the figures (both male and female) in his most celebrated painting, The Sacred Wood. Other assignments soon followed. Auguste Renoir used...
...jungle of Manhattan's Lower East Side. When she was 13 her father died, and Hattie went to work as a messenger in Macy's basement. Even then, rotating a wardrobe of one skirt and three blouses, she had style and taste. Rose Roth, a neighborhood seamstress, noticed it, and persuaded Hattie to model Roth dresses at the theaters and restaurants where her beaux took...
...determination of Montgomery Negroes in their demand for equal rights on the city's busses has not faltered throughout 90 days of personal sacrifice and economic hardship. Since December 5th, when a 42-year old Negro seamstress was convicted under Alabama law for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger, the city's 65,000 Negroes have carried out a bus boycott that has been virtually one hundred percent effective...
...Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old Negro seamstress, was ordered by a Montgomery City Lines bus driver to get up and make way for some white passengers. She refused, was arrested and fined $10 under an Alabama law making it a misdemeanor for any person to disobey a bus driver's seating instructions. But that was not the last of the Rosa Parks case: it has since been used to prove that economic reprisal, as advocated against Negroes by the white Citizens' Councils of the South (TIME, Dec. 12), is a double-edged blade...