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...cause of the trouble, explains Britain's Surgeon John Charnley, is either pressure that shuts off blood flow, or moist skin sticking to the bedsheet, which in turn sticks to the waterproof sheet beneath so that no moisture can escape. Dr. Charnley thought of trying a spongy sort of sheet made of nylon and polyvinyl chloride. But U.S. orthopedists had beaten him to the idea, with animal skins. Milwaukee's Dr. Frederick G. Gaenslen, copying an idea used by his orthopedist-father, uses close-cropped sheepskin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Beds in Sheep's Clothing | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...relations (swimming pools for the 13,000 workers, a beach resort, free junkets), his product the most racily advertised in the staid textile world. His most famed ad, captioned by himself and duly noted by the U.S. Post Office: a smiling Indian squaw rocking a tired brave in a bedsheet hammock, with the legend, "A buck well spent on a Springmaid sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...textile business, as white and flat as a bedsheet for the past two years, last week showed signs of returning to health. Among the best indicators were textile share prices, which closed 50% above their 1958 lows. Since last spring, Burlington Industries has gone from 9½ to 14½, Dan River Mills from 9⅛ to 14⅛, M. Lowenstein & Sons from nf to 15, J. P. Stevens from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXTILES: Recovery in View | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...high stakes in next week's runoff. "The election of John Patterson will be interpreted by the Klan as a major victory," warned Greensboro Watchman Editor Hamner Cobbs, Antiviolence White Citizens' Councilman. "In that event, for the next four years the escutcheon of Alabama will proclaim the bedsheet and the burning cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoodwink in Alabama | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...slender-winged kites in Cairo's twilight sky. He falls recklessly in love with a raven-haired Coptic 16-year-old named Aziza. Their furtive courtship gives Author Schiemer a chance to explore Egyptian domestic customs from cuisine to boudoir. One custom: the exhibiting of the wedding-night bedsheet to the bridegroom's parents as proof of the bride's virginity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revolt in Egypt | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

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