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Queen Mary's million-stitch needlepoint rug, after three months of exhibition in the U.S. and Canada, was sold last week to the highest bidder: Canada's Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, which offered 100,000 Canadian dollars...
Queen Mary's million-stitch needlepoint rug, which will be auctioned off as the Queen's own contribution to Britain's dollar shortage (TIME, Feb. 6), got a queenly sendoff on its American tour. Arriving on the liner Queen Mary, it was displayed for three days in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum to 30,000 gaping visitors. Then it was packed into its satin-lined chest, shipped off to Ottawa. By the time its transcontinental travels end in Baltimore, in June, the royal rug will have been on view in 22 U.S. and Canadian cities...
...Couplings. There were even indications and promises of a good future. In such a commonplace as a yam, science was finding new hope for the ill (see MEDICINE). There were also new comforts to living. There was a 24-lb. sewing machine on the market which not only could stitch but could embroider, make buttonholes and darn socks. There was an announcement that the New York Central would soon have ready for wilting and near-sighted New York commuters 100 air-conditioned cars with fluorescent lighting and improved couplings to soften the shock of frequent stopping & starting. The rubber companies...
...crisp moviemaking that follows is the work of Producer Anthony (Quartet) Darnborough and Director Terence Fisher. Taking a loosely knit story, they have tightened it stitch by stitch with skillful timing, intelligent camera work and imaginative sound effects to produce a superior suspense film. Most suspenseful sequence: the SS general slowly stalking a victim in a twilight forest while the sound track listens with hair-raising patience to the chirp of crickets, a night bird, and the final telltale crack of a breaking twig...
...with a sewing machine. But like other housewives, she found it slow going when she had to rip what she had sewn. With Merritt L. Walls, a gadget-minded ex-G.I, Mrs. Lawrence worked out the first needle that will quickly rip a seam by "unlocking" the bobbin stitch. When the Lawrence-Walls "ripper" was first demonstrated a month ago, Birmingham housewives bought 5,000 (at $1 each) in four hours. Last week the inventors granted exclusive manufacturing rights to the Oilman Corp. of Janesville, Wis., a subsidiary of Parker...