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Pattern in Cloth. Adolph Ochs was a small man with an impressive leonine head, an even more impressive manner. Often arbitrary and dictatorial, he was also kindly, paternalistic, full of fun, and he had confidence in Adolph Ochs. Born in Cincinnati, he became a printer at the age of 17. At 20, he bought a half-interest in the Chattanooga Times for $250, built it into such a profitable paper in the next 18 years that he decided to expand...
Schmidt stumbled through the crowd with her two small sons by the hand. The boys carried a brown enamel soup can and tattered cloth shopping bags. The loudspeaker squawked again: "Paul Fehr. F-e-h-r." No one moved. A man's trembling voice spoke from the rear: "1st . . . nicht . . . mitgekommen [didn't come along]." As more names were read off, nearly half were "nicht mitgekommen" or "noch im Lager [still in camp...
...first place, it is too long, running a little over two hours. The action contained in the story cannot possibly sustain it for such length. In the second place, it contains a series of lush scenes, depicting people fondling jewels and purchasing bolts of cloth, which have only the remotest connection with the plot and are in themselves boring and trite. In the third place, the characters insist upon talking in some sort of Biblical patois, a bastard St. James version of English, which succeeds only in producing considerable confusion and some ludicrous metaphors. In the fourth place, the acting...
...Brink's men were told to lie down, faces to the floor; they were bound with chandler's rope, and their mouths were taped with adhesive. Then the robbers went to work, scooped Federal Reserve sacks into big white cloth bags, kicked an occasional $1,000 in coins out of the way to get at the folding money. The bandits dragged the full bags downstairs to a black car waiting on narrow Prince Street, returned for fresh loads...
...next the skin with "a nice, thick, long-sleeved 'shift' of rough, scratchy serge . . . Stays, shoulder-strapped and severely boned, concealed one's outline; over them, two long serge petticoats were lashed securely round one's waist. Last came the ample habit-coat of heavy cloth, topped by a linen rochet and a stiffly starched barbette of cambric . . ." Discarding this medieval costume, Monica donned the fashions of the '403, beginning with "an airy nothing" and an uplift bra. "Frankly, I was appalled...