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...textbook and sent me to the principal," he recalls. "The principal said, 'What's to become of you?' and I said, 'Well, I'm going to be a sports cartoonist.' " He learned lettering as a department store artist, and after an apprenticeship of cleaning paste pots and doing layout retouching for various newspapers became a semiregular cartoonist for the sports section of the old Los Angeles Herald. The New York World-Telegram hired him in 1935, and for three decades thereafter his cartoons dominated its lead sports page six days a week...
...Coleman went on to say that remedial training was necessary for a number of people in the apprenticeship program. A student countered, saying that McNeil was enrolled in such a program, but that he had been taken out of it. The reason for that, Coleman explained,was that "We are reexamining the questions of what remedial training is needed...
...number of students then demanded to know just how the apprenticeship program is set up. Coleman said: "In order to accept apprentices for the program, the program is tightened up, and there is a statewide publication of the openings; people then apply and are considered. Some are chosen and some...
...confrontation ended as Coleman told the group that a decision on McNeil's pay increase would be made at the next meeting of the Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee. He said he would be willing to talk to McNeil and Bowie again Friday...
McNeil also claims that his foreman on the job has refused to sign a report-card for his work as required under the apprenticeship program's contract...