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...performed, as it should be, on the split instant. St. Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897), the "Little Flower," once advised a novice: "When someone knocks at your door, or when you are called, you must practice mortification and refrain from doing even one additional stitch before answering. I have practiced this myself, and I assure you that it is a source of much peace...
...Denton Cooley in Miami. He and his colleagues advise against immediate operation under emergency conditions. Doctors should first try to resuscitate the patient by draining blood from the heart sac and giving transfusions to counteract shock. Only if this is not quickly effective should they open the chest to stitch up the heart, for it is in this drastic operation, which often has to be performed hurriedly and under non-sterile conditions, that most deaths occur...
...next three days, Dennett stuck to his knitting as he sat through the hearings. Then he changed his mind, went back on the witness stand and, without dropping a stitch, admitted that he had indeed been a Communist...
...Stitch in No Time. A 141-needle knitting machine for home use has been brought out by the Regina Hand Knitting Machine Co. of Boulder, Colo. The manufacturer claims that the gadget can knit ten times as fast as an individual. Price...
...scenario, freely adapted from a short play by Prosper Merimee, is just the sort Renoir likes - a nice, loose-fitting smock, with plenty of frayed places for inspiration to stitch up at leisure. In The Golden Coach, as in The River, he has stitched (with the help of his nephew Claude Renoir, who supervised the photography in both pictures) a Joseph's coat of heart-catching colors. The colors weave and flow in a rhythm that carries one image vigorously into the next. The flow is swept along, too, by the apt and fetching musical score of Antonio Vivaldi...