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...with the same Boston team in 1939 as an amateur, and was chosen for the United States Olympic soccer team in that year, the last in which the Games were held. By a special arrangement common only to soccer teams, an amateur can participate in professional activities during his apprenticeship. Since then, Guyda has been Freshman coach at Harvard...
...post at remote and tiny Wabowden, Manitoba, the Hudson's Bay Company had a new fur-trade clerk. Rupert Brace Tinling, 21-year-old Royal Canadian Navy veteran from Winnipeg, had signed for a three-year apprenticeship. He liked fishing and hunting; he would have ample opportunity for both. Besides, his mother said, "he'd rather wear a parka and old trousers than the best dress suit...
...express it in any of its languages: conceptions of limit, measure, equilibrium, which ought to determine the conduct of life are, in the West, restricted to a servile function in the vocabulary of technics. We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in their apprenticeship to virtue...
Right after graduation in 1934, Linen got married and came to work for TIME. He served a six-months' advertising apprenticeship in New York, was then transferred to TIME'S Detroit office. In 1938 he returned to New York for LIFE, and two years later became LIFE'S advertising manager. In this job he helped direct LIFE'S phenomenal growth during 1939, 1940 and 1941 - and from it O.W.I.'s Robert Sherwood kidnapped him in 1942 to help set up O.W.I.'s offices around the world...
Before the turn of the century, four important U.S. artists served their apprenticeship together on the old Philadelphia Press (absorbed in 1920 by the Public Ledger, which in turn was absorbed by the Inquirer). The big four: George Luks, William Glackens, Everett Shinn and John Sloan. Their job, in the days before high-speed cameras, was to record, as clearly and dramatically as possible, the fires, strikes, ship launchings, trials, inaugurations-and even wars-which cameras catch now. They had to work fast to make each early-morning deadline, and yet get on paper the essential look and the significant...