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Robert sailed for England and another apprenticeship, this time under Lord Rutherford and Sir J. J. Thomson at Cambridge University. Before he left, Bridgman told him: "You cannot be satisfied with just measuring up with other people. You can consider yourself a failure unless you stand out in front...
...role (which Playwright Williams originally wrote with Katharine Cornell in mind) is only her fourth on Broadway, but it marks the sort of personal triumph that has attended Williams' other heroines (Laurette Taylor in Menagerie, Jessica Tandy in Streetcar). Although her skill and her accent suggest an apprenticeship on the English stage, 15-year-old Maggie knew nothing about acting when she came to the U.S. in 1939 on a visit from her native Cwmgwrach (pronounced Coom-grawk), Wales...
...stamps are designed by four busy men in the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing. All four have been to art school and gone through an apprenticeship in the Bureau, designing ornamental scrolls and script for banknotes. But they are primarily draftsmen; the designs themselves usually come to them down a long bureaucratic ladder...
Beatrice Webb died in 1943, aged 85; Sidney followed her last year. To the day of her death, Beatrice was at work on an autobiography based on extracts from her voluminous diaries. My Apprenticeship, which covered her first 30 years, appeared in 1926; Our Partnership, which carries on to 1911, is the next (and last) installment of the unfinished work. "The difficulty," Beatrice Webb realized, "is to tell the truth without being self-conscious about it"-and the result of her efforts is a natural account of a married life which, though it might sound like hell to most...
Juvenile Lead. There was no more in Clifford's early life to foreshadow this rise to his place behind the throne than there had been in Harry Truman's apprenticeship on the farm. They were both Missouri-bred, but there the resemblance ended. Clifford's father was a traveling auditor for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. His uncle was the late, fire-breathing Clark McAdams, liberal editorial writer on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His adoring mother is Georgia McAdams Clifford, who overrode the objections of her husband and became a Chautauqua circuit storyteller. One of her favorite...