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Perhaps the unpleasant contacts of the early stages of a political apprenticeship discourage such ambitions or perhaps the seeds of indifference and cynicism have been too well planted in the American mind to shake them out of their attitude of laissez faire towards the management of public affairs. A more far sighted conception of the importance of the responsibilities to be assumed in political activity and courage and willingness on the part of college men to enter an unpopular profession would put the control of government on a healthier and more efficient basis...
...become almost as essential to smart dinner table conversation as backgammon: Jose Clemente Orozco. Vibrant, intensely serious Artist Orozco is Mexican, of lineage from the 15th Century Conquistador es. One-armed, squarejawed, thickset, with glittering spectacles he looks not unlike an ecstatic bullfrog. In 1922, after a painful apprenticeship tinting postcards in California and drawing scathing cartoons in Mexico, he joined the famed Syndicate of Revolutionary Artists organized by Minister of Education Jose Vasconcelos.* Led by spectacular, pistol-carrying Diego Rivera they worked for a flat sum of eight pesos ($4) a day decorating the corridors and patios of Mexico...
...introduced into a herd of reindeer." When they learned to say "mer-r-r-de" properly they were grudgingly accepted as decent sorts by the school bullies Lapostolle, Boutet, Verner, Cochois. Close as two fingers were the brothers; through school in France and Germany; through Oxford; through their London apprenticeship (Tom-law; Jack-engineering) until they met lovely artist Molly Prescott. To her, Tom became engaged. Then the War broke. Under fire Tom discovered Molly's picture in Jack's tunic pocket-("Keep me with you, always, and I'll try to keep you safe"). Renouncing...
Like many another famed cartoonist, Rea Irvin served his apprenticeship on a San Francisco newspaper.* After intermittent work on newspapers and as an itinerant actor, he gained prominence as the illustrator of Author Wallace Irwin's "Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy" in Life. The oriental stamp of his "Hashimura Togo" sketches has reappeared from time to time in burlesque kakemono (Japanese scroll pictures) which he prepares for the New Yorker, of which he is art director. Cartoonist Irvin will continue his series of funny advertisements for Murad ("Be Nonchalant") cigarets...
...college or an apprenticeship in the local drugstore he chose the drugstore because it gave him more time for music. Later, in Germany, he became imbued with the spirit of Bach, and when he returned to Bethlehem and became organist at the Moravian Church, it was with the idea of making Bach's music known there. Today the Bethlehem performances under Wolle are the object of a national pilgrimage...