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...account of myself as the "stolid Philadelphian" in "U. S. Illustrators" . . . was acceptable enough especially when I found my name associated with Daumier and with Forain...
Philadelphia School. As worthy as Gibson to be called the dean of U. S. illustrators, in the opinion of many artists, is a stolid, 68-year-old Philadelphian who now lives in a white frame house and raises chickens in Gladstone, N. J. Frederic Rodrigo Gruger studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts along with Artists John Sloan and William Glackens, got into illustrating as they did, by doing newspaper work in Philadelphia. Gruger remained an illustrator. After 1899 when George Horace Lorimer became editor of the Saturday Evening Post, Gruger became the mainstay of that magazine...
While the nation pondered these prosaic devices to protect it from disaster brewing abroad, up popped a trial balloon for a scheme far from prosaic. The balloonist: William Stix Wasserman, a big, self-assured Philadelphian...
...conversation that last week proved highly interesting to the U. S. According to Mr. Wasserman, Sir Horace told him that at the outbreak of war the British Government would take over all the U. S. securities held by its nationals, use them as it saw fit. The Philadelphian discussed with Sir Horace the advantage of having them taken over at a "fair price" by some such U. S. agency as RFC, left the matter there...
...Fort Mifflin, which held out, but not long enough, against the British when they besieged Philadelphia in 1777. Fort Mifflin nowadays is a powder keg. Behind its ancient ramparts the U. S. Navy keeps some 450,000 lbs. of high explosives, convenient to the nearby Philadelphia Navy Yard. No Philadelphian likes to think about what might happen if an airplane landed smack on so much...