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Working 16 hours a day in a small rented shop, he made a modest living repairing and selling secondhand machines. As his business increased, he borrowed $2,000 from the United Service for New Americans and imported four sewing machines from Italy's Necchi (rhymes with Becky) Sewing Machine Co., with which he had done business in Poland. The machines could make buttonholes, sew on buttons, embroider, etc. without any attachments, tricks most other machines could...
...Your Listeners Alone. They can sew or knit or repair fishing tackle. Don't make them feel that listening is a duty...
Kenny Woodman, Paul Shaw, and Disk Manning counted for eight foul shots in the two overtime to sew up the game. Manning, who scored nine points, was the Yardling star, dominating both bash boards...
Brother Salesius revived after a few moments, and made his way back to his quarters at St. Mary's Hospital. He asked one of the nuns to lend him a needle & thread to sew up a tear in his clothes, but said nothing of what had happened...
When General Douglas MacArthur dramatically reminded Congress last April that "Old Soldiers Never Die," he set off wild scramble in Hollywood to sew up he phrase as title for a movie (TIME, April 30). Twentieth Century-Fox won the registration race, and the title was assigned o a story about an infantry platoon's galant rearguard action in Korea. Last week, with the film nearing completion, the company dropped the label as "not suitable." Slew title: Fixed Bayonets...