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...looked, listened to everyone and learned about news and editorial administration, in 1919 was made vice president. (At the same period Adler, also a vice president, was serving his own apprenticeship.) When 75-year-old Adolph Ochs suffered a breakdown in 1933, Sulzberger temporarily ran things. After Ochs died in 1935, Mrs. Ochs (who died in 1937) and Mrs. Sulzberger got life interests in the trust he had set up for the block of stock that controls the Times. Named as trustees were Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, Sulzberger and Adler. By giving control of the trust to Mr. & Mrs. Sulzberger, Publisher...
Hopper did not hit his stride until he was past 40, and his matter-of-fact manner of putting paint on canvas still recalls his long apprenticeship as a hack illustrator; it has no dash, humor or surface charm. But a man who has taught himself to transcribe the shapes and weathers of a real world into pictures need not charm; he convinces...
...honor graduate of Johns Hopkins University and a graduate cum laude of Harvard Law School, where he had been a favorite student of Professor Felix Frankfurter. The year was 1929, and he had won the coveted apprenticeship job of law-clerking for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He married Priscilla Fansler Hobson, 26, a Quaker a divorcee and the mother of a three-year...
...Frederick Porter ("the Weasel") Wensley, 84, beak-nosed master sleuth, onetime head of Scotland Yard's famed C.I.D. (Criminal Investigation Department), who solved many of Britain's most famous crimes during his long (1887-1929) service; in London. No theorizing Hercule Poirot, Wensley served a rough & tumble apprenticeship in London's thug-infested East End during the Jack the Ripper era, wrote about it all in Forty Years of Scotland Yard...
...masthead of Publisher Marshall Field's Chicago Sun-Times (circ. 630,000) appeared a new name last week: "Marshall Field Jr., assistant publisher and associate editor." After a 3½-year apprenticeship, young (33) "Marsh" Field had taken over the dominant editorial role in the round-the-clock tabloid that some day he will...