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...hand, just as he learned from his own father. Photos, diagrams and his taped words capture the craft completely. They also catch the man. A collection of hunting stories grows taller and taller, ending of course with bear; it is capped by old Minyard Conner's scandalous yarn of how his granddaddy killed the bear that caught him with his britches down...
...they ease the worries of Mrs. Nancy Blanchette, a machine operator in a Manchester yarn factory, who laments: "I go shopping every Wednesday, and it seems like every two or three weeks I see the prices jumping up right in front of me. We wait six months for a raise, and by the time we get it it's gone...
...Associate Editor Lance Morrow, who has chronicled the Hughes saga from our cover story of Jan. 24 through this week's article. It would be unfair to poach on Morrow's terrain by telling more here. After all, the tale, as Morrow says, "is a detective yarn that has everything...
...wild or as stretching the imagination as this yarn turned out to be ... I don't know Irving. I never saw him. I never even heard of him until a matter of days ago when this thing first came to my attention...
Curls and Stretches. Unlike regular knits, which are produced by inter-looping a single yarn, double knit fabric is made by interlocking the loops from two strands of yarn with a double stitch-one in back, one in front. This makes a strong, supple cloth that is suitable for dresses, suits, jackets and even rainwear. Double knits, which had been made in West Germany and Italy for decades, did not come into their own until English textile makers in the early 1960s found that they could produce the fabric with polyester. This was made possible by a process called texturizing...