I Magnin got sued for age discrimination (ref: Your time will come: the law of age discrimination and mandatory retirement By Lawrence Meir Friedman). They lost a lot of money in the settlements.

I am most grateful for my two grandmothers. They both made beautiful quilts. My grandmother Ellen made quilts out of ties (remember the wide silk ties of the 1940s?). I still have the last quilt top she made before glaucoma ended her sewing. It is made into a wall hanging. She used the log cabin pattern. I still miss her.