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...swooned, and wrote back, "Wow, am I!" Anyhow, note followed hot note and Miss Jomes began thinking of turning in her steam iron for a marriage manual. Until one day tragedy struck. x428Fy's shirts arrived as usual, but when Miss Jomes turned to the slot she found it sewn-up. Frantic, she tried to rip it open. No luck. She could feel something thin inside, but she couldn't get to it. And that's how it's been ever since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOVE IN THE LAUNDRY | 11/2/1957 | See Source »

...hooked up to a heart-lung machine which did its blood pumping and breathing as long as necessary. Then its heart and lung or lungs were cut out and discarded. Now the surgeons took the chilled organs from the refrigerator and implanted them. The aorta had to be sewn in place with the utmost care-a time-consuming process−but the great veins leading into the right heart could be hooked up with simple surgical couplings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Transplanted Hearts | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Chips off the Block. Later the soldiers sold the King's blood to those who wished to dip their handkerchiefs in it, sold bits of his hair and chips of the block. The embalmer, sewing the King's head to his body, remarked: "I have sewn on the head of a goose." Charles had died trying to forgive his enemies, and almost surely even these last indignities, could he have foreseen them, would not have led him to approve the revenge taken by followers of Charles II years later. The body of Lord Protector Cromwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death of a Man | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...cantilever metal chair, went on to produce the famed "Barcelona" chair, designed for his sumptuous German Pavilion at Barcelona's 1929 International Exposition. For the Barcelona chair he used chrome-plated stainless steel, covered the cushions with sumptuous kid leather. Cost of the chair today, done in hand-sewn natural leather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Architects' Furniture | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...They carry rope ladders round their waists and files sewn in the seams of their coats to escape with. D'you mind very much if I accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Derring-Documentary | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

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