Word: silks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next afternoon the President took a few minutes off to pose with the First Lady for photographers on the White House south lawn. Mamie, resplendent in a white silk dress, proudly fingered a new diamond-studded gold pendant, Ike's anniversary present. When a photographer suggested that she put her arm around the President, Mamie laughed and nudged Ike. "Oh no," she exclaimed. "You're the one who's supposed to put your arm around me-" Ike blushed under his tan and declined to hug his wife in public; Mamie affectionately hooked her arm through...
...World War II, Japan's Ohmi Silk Spinning Co. was a down-at-heel outfit whose seven ramshackle wooden factories, taken all together, were worth less than $30,000. Today, after seven years of operating under Japan's newly liberalized labor laws, Ohmi has grown into a $3,000,000 corporation, whose 13,000 employees and half a million humming spindles have helped push it up to sixth place in Japan's vital yarn industry. The formula by which Ohmi's boss, fat, arrogant Kakuji Natsukawa, has achieved this success is simple: he has paid little...
...docks in Freeport, Texas one day last week, 238 disabled veterans boarded an odd-looking fleet of 56 boats, ranging from battered shrimpers to slick and polished yachts. The vets were off for a day of fishing. For the blind, there were special lines with tufts of silk placed at regular intervals to show how much line was out; for one-armed fishermen there were special devices to wind the reels. Both the expedition-and the fishing aids-were the productions of Columnist Ralph Alexander ("Andy") Anderson of Scripps-Howard's Houston Press. A little...
...special show of contemporary Murano glass put most Italian paintings in the shade, and some flamboyant ceramic figures of working girls by light-fingered Leoncillo Leonardi outshone more pretentious sculptures. As best Italian painter, the jury picked Giuseppe Santomaso for his pleasantly decorative abstractions, which resemble swatches of colored silk and black thread in a stiff breeze. Prize for best Italian sculptor went to Pericle Fazzini (who makes a living by conservative church commissions), for some mildly sexy contortionists in wood and bronze...
MARIA CROCIFISSA DI ROSA (1813-55) left convent school at 17 to take over her wealthy father's silk factory at Brescia, Italy, where she saw to the spiritual and material welfare of the workers. In the cholera epidemic of 1836 she nursed the sick, which led to her foundation of the Servants of Charity...