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Once interested, Harvardman ('17) Atkinson fixed his sights on an aisle seat in New York. Getting there involved five years of apprenticeship on two Massachusetts papers and a brief digression as English instructor at Dartmouth. By 1922 he was within strolling distance of Broadway, editing the Sunday book section of the Times; and three years later, when the Times's Drama Critic Stark Young resigned, Atkinson took Young's place...
Spanning the period 1706-34, Volume I only takes Franklin to the age of 28, but these were the spawning years of his genius. He served his apprenticeship as a printer, journeyed to England and back, published the New England Courant, married, formed the "Junto," an intellectual self-improvement club of like-minded Philadelphians, and brought out the first three of the famed Poor Richard's Almanacks. Franklin also set down his basic religious outlook, a kind of deism that made him a logical child of the rationalist Enlightenment. Instinctively a yea-sayer to life, Franklin came very close...
...half he attended Waco's Baylor University and Abilene's Simmons College, left after telling friends that he saw no reason to spend his time in the library when there was so much money to be made on the outside. He served a three-year apprenticeship in the oil business as salesman, scout and leaseman, left the oilfields to return to his first love, cattle raising. His herd died of tick fever, putting him $6,000 in debt to the Athens bank. After another hitch in the oilfields, Richardson returned to Athens a year later in a brand...
...find himself. Born in Seattle, he shared the indignities common to Japanese Americans. But he had a burning desire, inspired by an architect uncle, to become an architect. After getting his degree in architecture from the University of Washington, he went East to New York, struggled through a long apprenticeship working as a draftsman, waited out the animosity of the war years, in 1945 landed a job with a firm in Detroit, where he stayed. Steady progress led to his first partnership, to his St. Louis airport building, with its lofty barrel vaults of shell concrete (TIME, April...
...monoliths in the famous Pentelic marble of Greece. Almost too many influences are detectable in Noguchi's works, ranging from the rock gardens he knew in his boyhood in Japan (his father was a Japanese professor of English literature at Keio University, his mother an American) to his apprenticeship under Rumanian-born Constantin Brancusi. But Noguchi has managed to create a whole range of forms recognizably...