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...strong will not to return until he was big enough to thrash his browbeating father. His adventures along the way might have been told by Mark Twain -capture by a mean reward-hunter, whose precocious daughter petted him, stole his $13; escape and recapture and escape again; apprenticeship to a kindly windbag who dyed Ray's hair black, stained his face, billed him in his medicine show as Little Yuma the Captive Child, kidnapped by hostile Sioux...
...Flanders (now Belgium) 600 years ago, painting was just another craft. Like brewers, dyers and weavers who were .hen bringing wealth to its free cities, painters were organized in solid guilds. They had rules of long apprenticeship, traditions of craft, stiff standards for 'masters." Flemings were lucky, because this medieval system lasted at least a century longer among them than anywhere else, led to the great technical discovery of oil painting and its first masters-Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Roger van der Weyden...
When questioned about university dramatics, Welles said, "It seems that a good proportion of the members of both the American and English stage have served their apprenticeship in college and school dramatics. As a matter of fact, college dramatics seem to be almost a stepping-stone to success in the theatre. As for myself, I guess I am the exception to the rule; for I have had only four years of schooling in my life...
...collegiate humanity in particular--there is an opportunity to express those interests. Specifically to artists and musicians does the Editorial Board offer a chance to criticize. Students with an occupational interest in newspaper work, photography, or business, will get practical experience not to be surpassed by an actual apprenticeship in the non-cloistered world...
Bradford served his worldly apprenticeship as secretary (1931-34) to Democratic Governor Ely, Eliot as assistant solicitor in the U. S. Department of Labor, where he helped write the Social Security Act. Now these almost identical twins, self-consecrated to the cause of better government, are both in politics under opposite labels. In Middlesex County, in which one-quarter of Massachusetts' people live, a better element group, determined to oust Republican District Attorney Warren L. Bishop, whom they accuse of backsliding, drafted Republican Bob Bradford to run against him in the primaries September 20. In the 9th Congressional District...