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...minor member of the Roosevelt "Brain Trust'' during the cam- paign. James Warburg's father was the late Paul Moritz Warburg, member of the first Federal Reserve Board. James first saw light in Germany 36 years ago. A Harvard man, he served his banking apprenticeship in Boston, Washington, Manhattan, emerged as vice president of In- ternational Acceptance Bank, is today vice chairman of Bank of Manhattan Co. On Broadway he is known as Paul James whose lyrics, with music by his trim wife, Kay Swift, helped to make the first Little Show and Fine & Dandy successful. Last...
Alceo Dossena had a good apprenticeship for his profession. He was born in 1878 in Cremona, hometown of the great Violin Maker Stradivari, and apprenticed to a marble mason. With his master he worked for years restoring the balustrades and ornaments of local churches in Cremona, Piacenza, Parma-restorations that not only copied the details but imitated the patina of nearby originals. Soon he was restoring not only marble but bronze, terra cotta and wood...
Present director of Worcester's Museum is amiable, oval Francis Henry ("Fran") Taylor, Philadelphia socialite, whose archeological apprenticeship was spent as a student in France and as curator in the Pennsylvania Museum of Art. When he went to Worcester two years ago plans for a new building had already been made. More to the point, the money was already in hand, a legacy from Stephen Salisbury III. Director Taylor concentrated on building up his museum's collection. On view last week were a portrait of Diane de Poitiers by 16th Century null Clouet; a fine El Greco...
...decision of the University to consider the possibility of accepting the University Film Foundation as an official department of the University indicates that finally the University is willing to recognize publicly the services of the Foundation, and realizes that it has satisfactorily earned its board during its short apprenticeship of the last few years...
...only to be gained in the drill work of the school. It is easy to advocate the discarding of all these subjects as deadwood; to make instruction entirely a matter of practical arts that are interesting and useful to the student. Learning to think, however, requires as hard an apprenticeship as anything else, and this apprenticeship must be served in the secondary school. Even more important is upholding the old and traditional meaning of the intellectual and scholarly liberal arts...