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...Forefront. The son of a Quaker minister and holder of a degree in composition from Boston University, Ellis served his apprenticeship by playing and writing for groups of every musical stripe from Charlie Mingus and Woody Herman to the New York Philharmonic, with interludes of teaching and organizing jazz happenings. His band currently works only once a week regularly, at a Hollywood spot called Bonesville; between dates, he supports himself by playing studio orchestras and scoring TV sound tracks. Now he has a long string of offers from festivals in Europe and the U.S. He sees himself in the forefront...
Both Welz and Peters consider the end of sophomore year a perfect time to sign, and it is hard to gainsay their decisions. With most pro prospects starting their apprenticeship in the minors around age 18, the Harvard hopefuls would be way behind the game if they waited until their graduation at 22. By playing only in the summers, their progress toward a degree will not be interrupted, and they will get a good idea of their chances of making the majors Both Peters and Welz are interested in graduate work, and if they don't progress in two summers...
...Peace Corps official from Washington will talk with all juniors interested in the Experimental Peace Corps Apprenticeship program, sponsored by Education for Action, today at 4 p.m. in the Hilles Library Theatre...
Died. Mark DeWolfe Howe, 60, professor of constitutional law at Harvard, who served his apprenticeship as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (whose life he later chronicled in a definitive biography), went on to become one of the nation's foremost legal historians and teachers and an indefatigable campaigner for civil liberties and rights; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass...
When the painting goes on display at the gallery on March 17, it may cause some controversy, for Ginevra dei Benci is no Mona Lisa. Leonardo painted her some 29 years earlier, when he had only recently completed his apprenticeship in the Florentine studio of Andrea del Verrocchio. The technique, while accomplished, is stiffer than that of his later works. Yet Ginevra, a curly-haired blonde with narrow, almost Mongolian eyes, a stern, pale mouth and alabaster skin, is clearly one of Leonardo's ladies. Like La Gioconda, she is ambivalent, as cold as she is beautiful...