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...Cincinnati Public Library (where he picked up U. S. history), barrel-chested young Ameringer was soon at home in the land of the free. He sold humorous pieces to Judge and Puck, painted portraits of well-to-do Ohio farmers at $20 per, and in 1890 returned in prosperous broadcloth to his native village...
Rough as thistle and dour as dominie's broadcloth is the Scottish Presbyterian who last week took over as Great Britain's Minister of Information. No government but Britain's would put direct wartime control of newspapers and newspapermen in the hands of a man who hates newspapers and newspapermen as much as does Sir John Charles Walsham Reith. He is said once to have had a reporter fired for flying an airplane over the Reith house to take pictures. In one of his rare interviews he flatly declared that he never looked at a newspaper...
...Broadcloth Boys. Immediate granddaddies of one contemporary school were the American pre-Raphaelite Edwin Austin Abbey and the Romanticist Howard Pyle, both august figures around Manhattan's mellow Century Club in the 1890s. Pyle, later joined by his star pupil, N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth, founded an informal art school at Wilmington, Del., where young Pyles and young Wyeths still make most of the art news (TIME, Nov. 15; 1937). Abbey's Tennysonian women and Pyle's nut-brown heroes haunted subsequent illustrators in oil. So did their love of historical romance. One of their stylistic descendants...
Philadelphia boasts the oldest Stock Exchange in the country. It was formally organized in 1790, though an informal market was established nearly a half century earlier. Listings in those days included broadcloth and slaves. Before the telegraph, quotations were dispatched to Manhattan in ten minutes with semaphore systems. For the past 75 years Philadelphia has been asking for quotations from Manhattan, and the importance of its Stock Exchange has dropped below that of even Boston, San Francisco or Chicago...
Last fortnight Herald Tribune readers found in the rotogravure section a half-page advertisement of R. H. Macy & Co. offering men's white broadcloth shirts at $1.69 and linen dish towels at 17?. Attached to the picture of the shirt was a two-inch sample of white broadcloth; to the picture of the dishtowel, a square of green-striped linen...