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...YORK'S IMMIGRATION officials gave my maternal great grandfather his name. "What kind of work will you do?" I can imagine an Ellis Island inspector asking him. "I can sew," my great grandfather probably answered in Yiddish. "A tailor. Alright, Morris. Stitch is your new American name." Henceforth the man would be known by his product. The confusions and contradictions of the arrival, the harrowing journey from the homeland, and the family still trapped on the Russian shtetl, anxiously waiting for word to come join him, were glibly ignored by this new alien world...
...NEEDLEPOINT GALLERY OF PATTERNS FROM THE PAST by Phyllis Kluger. 191 pages. Knopf. $15. No mere woolgathering, the craft of needlepoint combines a meditative activity with the hard-core work ethic. Time is casually suspended stitch by stitch, but in the end something palpable gets done. Phyllis Kluger's stitches in time span nearly 5,000 years-from the arts of ancient Egypt and Byzantium to Renaissance Europe and early America. All are shown in full-color photos as well as instructional graph patterns. Kluger's historical commentary and analysis of her motifs provide an enriching dimension...
...magazine. The quarterly, which is modestly called Gloria Vanderbilt Designs for Your Home, promises to supply how-to tips in painting, crochet, needlepoint, embroidery, quilting, knitting, rug making, sewing and other skills for ambitious homemakers. All of which may help even Creative Director Vanderbilt to pick up a new stitch or two. "I haven't a clue about how to do needlepoint," she confessed last week. "And sewing is a mystery...
Harvard, meanwhile, will have three doubtful or sub-par starters tonight as late-season injuries mount. Forward Jim Thomas, who received a deep eight-stitch cut over his left eye against Cornell in the ECACs; center Leigh Hogan, who has been nagged by a stomach musical pull and defenseman Ed Rossi, with a shoulder problem could all be watching most of the game from the bench...
...those seniors, Jim Thomas, was forced to watch the game from the stands as a misguided shot in Friday's game struck him above the eye for a seven-stitch cut. Thomas went to an eye specialist who advised that he sit out the finals...