Word: apprenticeships
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...broken into in the small morning hours, photographs were taken of the empty counters, and were published by the rival print under the caption "Results of Advertising in Our Competitor." To anyone who did not know that the brothers were named Levand, and that they had served their apprenticeship with Frederic J. Bonflls on the Denver Post, this might seem harsh treatment, but the Wichita paper will have to go much farther than this to discourage them...
Pierre Hamp, proletarian (as opposed to propagandist) author, has had a queer and difficult apprenticeship in his profession. In Kitchen Prelude, the story of his youth, he tells what it was like to be a pastry-cook's helper in Paris, a chef's assistant behind such glittering faqades as Marguery's Restaurant and London's Savoy Hotel...
...lives with his mother and drinks quantities of milk. Aged 19, he has escaped most formal schooling and examinations but passed the Czechoslovakian Government's test for the certificate of "master cobbler." After a trip to the Bat'a shoe outposts in Africa and apprenticeship in Bat'a facto ries in Switzerland and Germany Tommy is working through the plant at Zlin, department by department. Now & then he makes a night of it with Bat'a workers at their club, an ancient castle left by Thomas Bat'a with the stipulation that "on these premises...
...grid), but that was before Henry Morgan became their Admiral-in-Chief. By that time (1667) they had found other, more dangerous fish to fry; some of them were no better than pirates. In Morgan's early career he was not much better himself: he served a bloody apprenticeship against the Spaniards in Hispaniola and Granada, quitted himself so like a buccaneer that he was elected Admiral. Jamaica's Governor Modyford made it official by handing him a commission...
...years ago before he was artistically mature, will rejoin the company. Last week as soon as another season was assured, Cyrena Van Gordon, onetime Chicago Opera contralto, was engaged for the Metropolitan. So was Baritone John Charles Thomas, the Pennsylvania Methodist Minister's son who after an apprenticeship in musical comedy Maytime, Apple Blossoms) has developed one of the smoothest baritone voices...