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...story matched in truth Hollywood's fantasy about itself: an immigrant lad from Rumania, upward mobility via New York's City College, a scholarship to an acting academy, a theater apprenticeship, a break in the movies. A stage portrayal of a gangster led to the role of Rico in Little Caesar (1930). It was only Robinson's fourth picture-100 more were to come-but he realized perfectly the character of the brutal, power-crazed mobster. He also created a stereotype for himself and a durable genre for Hollywood...
...training a boondoggle or a boon to those who are still unemployed? The Government's total effort is a complex of programs too diverse to support any generalization, except that manpower training has grown into a bureaucratic monstrosity. There are separate programs-many bearing such optimistic names as Apprenticeship Outreach, Operation Mainstream, JOBS, JUMP and WIN-for the urban poor and the rural poor; for blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and Appalachian whites; for Viet Nam veterans, displaced aircraft engineers and welfare mothers...
...buildings and churches and highways and bridges and schools. We love this country. We were afraid it was going down the drain and nobody was doing anything about it." Like other members of the craft unions, however, he is choosy about who gets to build. Because of the rigid apprenticeship programs, outsiders, especially those from minority groups, have a hard time getting in the unions. Opposed to federal intervention, Brennan helped formulate the New York plan, which was intended to train 800 black and Spanish-speaking people. After two years, only 545 have been accepted, and 22 have union cards...
Died. Margaret Webster, 67, Shakespearean director and last member of one of Britain's most famous theatrical families; of cancer; in London. Descended from a 19th century clan of classical actors and the daughter of Ben Webster and Dame May Whitty, Webster served her own apprenticeship as a performer on the London stage during the '20s. She found her métier, however, as a Broadway director more than a decade later, and her major triumphs of the '30s and '40s (Richard II, Hamlet, Twelfth Night) made Shakespeare a New York box office success...
...that Thurber does not need a literary biographer. Holmes asks the reader to sit still and pay attention while he divides Thurber's career into the "period of apprenticeship," the "period of early success," a third category of "blindness and reassessment," and a "later manner." He announces and then proves beyond doubt that he has discerned three levels of language in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Confronted by Holmes, the reader's mind wanders to The Unicorn in the Garden, to The Night the Ghost Got In. He imagines that he is writing Walter Mitty: ta-pocketa...