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Ticks & Honks. Harry Baker is one of a band of some 3,000 U.S. craftsmen who struggle bravely and incessantly to keep 6,000,000 U.S. pianos in tune. They are steadily losing ground. Not only are the tuners hopelessly outnumbered by the pianos, but even their present numbers are dwindling. The younger generation prefers a livelier livelihood...
Patiently he served a seven-year apprenticeship in Morris' Guild of English Craftsmen. When one of Morris' disciples set up a model community for artisans in an ancient English village, Arthur moved there with his family...
...longtime hard-slugging critic of U.S. ships and shippers. He praised the Liberty as an excellent ship- for its wartime purpose. He saw nothing extraordinary in the small percentage of Liberty ship failures (3.23 reported by the American Bureau of Shipping), declared that ships built by master craftsmen in peacetime have suffered the same casualties. To keep their positions in convoys, the slow (10½ knots) Liberties often must buck mountainous seas while running at full speed instead of slowing down as they would normally do. Overloading with solid cargoes of jeeps and tanks is common. Too often the voyage...
...their Sunday and everyday costumes in the book). They built good houses, good ships, strong forts, sturdy barns. They drew good plans for them. They carried muskets so formidable that many a contemporary householder may envy them. They worshiped in churches that were the best work their architects and craftsmen could produce. Their faces that look out from hunting scenes, building scenes, christenings, battles, countinghouses, pulpits are serene and strong, with the quality, at once active, firm and reposed, that Americans think of as typically American...
...sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine. This enormous folio (height 22 in., weight 20 lb., price $95 a copy) was made possible by the discovery in Munich in 1932 of almost all the original Calcar-attributed woodblocks. More than 200 turned up, in perfect condition. Bremer Presse craftsmen made restrikes of the blocks, on dampened rag paper, with such exquisite care that the results are far more legible than in the first great 16th Century editions. The book has yet to find a 20th Century publisher who will reprint it at a popular price; but the supposed Calcar...