Word: apprenticeships
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Square and scholarly-looking. Bishop Burgess, 53. was elected on solid qualifications. He did advanced study in sociology at the University of Michigan be fore graduating from the Episcopal Theo logical School at Cambridge, Mass., in 1934. After his ordination, he served a clerical apprenticeship at churches in Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. In 1946 he was called to the chaplaincy of Washing ton's Howard University, and five years later became a canon of Washington Cathedral. Until his consecration, Burgess was Archdeacon of Boston and supervisor of the Episcopal City Mission. Burgess was chosen for the suffragan bishopric over...
Although a number of writers from E. M. Forster to Alberto Moravia have doubted the value of writing courses, Miller is all for them. "A course makes you aware of problems in the craft of writing, and it shortens the period of apprenticeship that all writers must go through. Also, because it is a graded course, it provides an incentive to write. And it gives you contacts. Certainly it was because of Guerard that my novel got published...
Military Mustache. In the same laissez-faire spirit. Jack R. Howard, 52. president and general editorial manager of Scripps-Howard newspapers. presides over the editorial show from the chain's New York headquarters. After a thorough apprenticeship on half a dozen Scripps-Howard papers. Jack Howard reached his present eminence by right of royal succession: he is the only son of Roy W. Howard, the late E. W. Scripps's longtime partner, who is still active at 79 as Scripps-Howard's executive committee chairman. But about the only regal touches that Jack Howard permits himself...
...affluent lawyer, Barnett clung to his boyhood ambition to achieve public office. In 1951, without bothering to serve a political apprenticeship, he plunged in as a candidate in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. He lost, tried and lost again in 1955, finally won in 1959. The secret of his success: as the most outspoken racist among all Mississippi's segregationist politicians, Barnett won the support of the state's powerful white Citizens' Councils. Most Mississippi politicians refer to Negroes as "niggras" in public speeches; Barnett unfailingly called them "niggers," drew cheers, chuckles -and votes-from rural audiences...
...senses by a successful threat: "We'll tell your wife." The tricks are the same in the deadfalls of Miami, Cleveland and Chicago's sinful suburb, Calumet City; in the bleak hope of becoming "exotic"' dancers, many of the girls are forced to serve a dark apprenticeship in hustling drinks, picking pockets, and prostitution. One dancer, sultry-eyed Anita Lopshok ("Fatima" to her fans), testified that two bartenders, under orders from her boss, tore off all her clothes and forced her onstage. Absurd as it is that such girls should belong to a labor union, they...