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...comes home to find a TV dinner in the oven. Not Pierre Franey. The first time he found frozen dinners in his house at Valley Stream, N.Y., recalls Franey, "I was furious." His gall was on account of Gallic upbringing. Born 46 years ago in Burgundy, Franey began an apprenticeship as a kitchen boy at 14, learned to cook at Paris' Drouant restaurant (two Michelin stars), reached his culinary peak as chef of New York's Pavilion (which would undoubtedly rate three stars if Michelin graded U.S. establishments). Like Friend and Fellow Chef René Verdon, who quit...
...study. "I executed a madonna in stone for him, and every minute was wonderful," she recalls. After learning sculpture's basic grammar from Moore, Brigitte was ready to leave traditional materials behind, sought out the Russian-born constructivist Antoine Pevsner in Paris, put in another year of apprenticeship with...
...economic equality are clear: the number of young Negroes completing high school and completing college must be increased very substantially. The quality of the education they receive must be made equal to the quality of education of whites. And more specific vocational skills must be made available, whether through apprenticeship programs, vocational schools, Now is the time fora cational schools, manpower training policies or on-the-job experience. These programs of human investment will require immense resources from all levels of government, from employers, and not least from the Negro families themselves. In addition, the gates of opportunity must...
...once was restricted almost wholly to the moneyed gentry. Young people are now more involved than ever-on both sides of the footlights. In the past 16 years, the quality and quantity of American singers have risen sharply-though many still have to go to Europe to serve their apprenticeship. But even that trend is beginning to reverse itself as Dallas, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Boston and Chicago develop their own troupes, though they still continue to import the finest singers from the international circuit. In 1950, for example, there were 200 opera companies in the U.S.; today there...
...Chicago, two new blues clubs on the predominantly white North Side feature not only the likes of Howlin' Wolf and Otis Rush but also a white lawyer's son named Paul Butterfield, who soaked up the Negro style during a five-year apprenticeship in South Side bands. Some blues buffs .are beginning to worry that the art, increasingly cut off from its country roots and diluted by white encroachments, will grow moribund. But the jumping Chicago scene today assures the vitality of the blues for a long time to come. A new vanguard of city-bred youths...