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...Richards joined the Harvard staff in 1919, immediately after his graduation from Medical School, as assistant to Dr. E. C. Nichole. After two years of apprenticeship he assumed the position he has had for the past ten years. He is known as one of the most expert of the younger surgeons around Boston and has gained wide recognition. Those who did not know him will recall him, however, as the man who always ran out on the football field first as soon as any Harvard man was injured...
...Glass Key; TIME, April 27). Well above the average of detective story fiction, The Broadcast Murders reads as if its author was an old hand at the game, though it is his first attempt. But Fred Smith is an old hand at another game: radio. Having served his apprenticeship as a lumberjack in California, a schoolteacher in Indiana, a sailor on the north Atlantic, a government employe in Spain, an importer in Brussels, he became director of WLW, Cincinnati, in 1922; next year wrote and produced the first radio drama. With TIME since 1928 as manager of its radio department...
...Author. Literary England is excited about Dr. Archibald Joseph Cronin. A Scottish medico of 34, his writing apprenticeship was served in concocting such unlikely sellers as A History of Aneurism, Dust-Inhalation by Haematite Miners, First Aid in Coal Mines. He took a vacation last summer, wrote Hatter's Castle in some three strenuous months. Gollancz, first English publisher to see the MS, accepted it with cheers. So did the Book Society of London. Though Dr. Cronin served in the surgical corps during the War, has traveled widely, has been down 500 coal mines in the course of research...
...eminent public benefactress. The year 1881 marked the first milestone for both elements in her conspicuous career. Aged 23, she married Whitelaw Reid, potent editor of the New York Tribune. The same year she helped organize the New York Chapter of the American Red Cross. Her philanthropic apprenticeship had been served in assisting her father with his famed Mills Hotels for poor folk and his nursing school at Bellevue Hospital, New York. Active Elisabeth Reid bore her husband a son and a daughter in short order, went with him when he was appointed Minister to France...
...Jersey to Ohio in 1804 and amassed a fortune in Cincinnati real estate and vineyards, Nicholas Longworth was born in 1869. He went to Harvard (1891), conducted the college orchestra. With money, social position and native wit, he went into politics under the guidance of Mark Hanna. After an apprenticeship in the State Legislature, he was elected to Congress in 1902. In the White House then was a slim saucy miss called "Princess Alice" Roosevelt. Congressman Longworth met her, danced with her, took her motoring in one of the capital's first cars. Under the chaperonage of Secretary...