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...beggars from Chicago's Century of Progress. Notable Milliken borrowings were Memling's Portrait of a Man Holding a Carnation from J. P. Morgan, a Titian and a Raphael from Paris' haughty Louvre Museum and two great Italian works from Italy's Italico Brass. Among Clevelanders who lent Director Milliken 79 pictures in all were three members of the Hanna family and the estate of Cleveland's Tycoon John L. Severance. Director Milliken, expecting a 75% average, had a 98% success...
...named Ottmar Mergenthaler sat at an odd machine which looked like a cross between a power loom and a punch press. Beside him stood the Tribune's Editor Whitelaw Reid. As Ottmar Mergenthaler lightly tapped out letters on a keyboard before him, Mr. Reid heard the tinkling of brass type matrices falling into place. The rack of matrices was shunted to a bubbling pot of lead inside the machine. As Editor Reid looked on, Machinist Mergenthaler touched a lever and presented him, hot from the mold, with a solid line of type...
...mandolin lost popularity during the War. For a time stringed instruments yielded to brass and reed, chiefly the saxophone. Then touring Hawaiians brought in the cheap, easily played ukulele, the steel guitar with its throbbing, swooping tone which home musicians thought glamorous. By 1928 radio had cut into the field, but, with jazz music at a noisy, amorphous stage, the banjo had a vogue of a sort. Currently the trade claims that home instruments are enjoying an upswing from which the guitar is getting the most benefit. The most respectable member of its family, this soft-toned fretted instrument...
Oldest of GTI's two venerable subsidiaries is Seth Thomas, which dates back to 1813 when a young Yankee gathered tools and helpers to make grandfather clocks in Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley. At first the parts were wooden and fitted only one clock. Later clockmakers shifted to brass and eventually evolved precision methods, interchangeable parts. Clock-making was the first real mass production in the U. S. No Connecticut craftsman built better than Seth Thomas I, few as well, and by 1853 he had sold enough clocks to organize a formal company with $75,000 capital, sizable money...
Unknowns- In 1921 Yale turned out with brass bands and welcoming streamers to greet its new President James Rowland Angell. It was a meeting of two unknown quantities. Of the two, Yale was by far the more perplexing. A hectic period of social and spiritual campus unrest, later identified as the Jazz Age, had just begun. And in the teeth of it, the nation's Second School had just undergone a sweeping reorganization at the hands of a committee of faculty and trustees headed by Publisher Henry Johnson Fisher of McCall's and the University's Secretary...