Word: stitchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pretty Maura Lyons was 15 years old and a member of Northern Ireland's Roman Catholic minority (34.2%) when she went to work a year ago as a stitcher in a Belfast garment factory. There she met several members of a splinter sect known as the Free Presbyterian Church, and soon she became a Protestant. Her father, a shipyard worker, and her mother were horrified; so was the parish priest. There were family conferences, prayers and tears. Then Maura Lyons disappeared...
Farrell's efficiency with the props for athletic contests is legendary. Neatly arranged in his big Dillon equipment room cupboards are piles of equipment ranging from shoulder pads to javelins. The machines in the adjacent laundry room roar with loads of towels, the stitcher in the shoe shop chews at a torn football shoe. Assistants dole out sweatshirts, take them back warmed with exercise, hand out towels...
...Simple Stitcher. The Vigorelli "Robot," a sewing machine that can change its pattern of stitch without stopping or slowing down, was shown off in Manhattan. Hailed as "the world's first completely automatic home sewing machine." the machine also has a knob for selecting any of ten different types of embroidery stitch. Price...
Here in the bindery the freshly printed editorial pages meet the preprinted color pages, advance forms and TIME covers. The collated pages are then carried automatically to a stitcher, which inserts the staples...