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Conscience of Freedom. To the secretaryship Foster Dulles brought all the years of family tradition, the skills of a long diplomatic apprenticeship, the craftsmanship of a topflight international lawyer-and an unswerving faith in his mission. Thus uniquely endowed, he held the free world's battle lines with his display of peace by military-diplomatic power ("Brinksmanship," cried the critics), took his stand as the clear, stern conscience of freedom (TIME, April...
...years he served an apprenticeship to the man he called "Lieber Meis-ter." "Form follows function," Sullivan insisted. "Form and function are one, and should be taken into the realm of the spiritual," young Wright replied, and struck out on his own. Soon adventuresome clients began going to Architect Wright's studio in Oak Park, Ill. In the midst of architects busy designing picturesque Queen Anne-style houses and neoclassic copies, Wright lopped off gables and pillars with a stroke of his pencil, created his own prairie houses. He flattened the roof to parallel the earth line, projected eaves...
Jean Gannett Williams' legacy was loaded with liabilities-but not of the financial sort. Her credentials were meager: one year's apprenticeship, one press junket through Europe. Buffed to a high private-school gloss at Masters School and Bradford Junior College, she seemed miscast in a man's world of deadlines and hot lead. Jean became president, but Gannett papers were really managed by two survivors of her father's rule: General Manager Laurence H. Stubbs and Publisher Roger Chilton Williams, son of the late novelist Ben Ames Williams-and Jean Gannett Williams' ex-husband...
Tripp has been in business for himself only since 1951. Son of a civil engineer, blond, shock-haired Bill Tripp is a lifelong Long Islander, has sailed everything from the family Star boat to ocean racers and frostbite dinghies, put in a twelve-year apprenticeship with Designers Rhodes and Stephens. As with all unknowns in the cliquish yacht business, Tripp at first found the going tough. In 1955 he finally got a chance to design an ocean racer, the yawl Katingo. The boat promptly won the American Yacht Club cruise two years in succession...
Anyone anxious to whip his unpracticed mercenary tendencies into really proven methods of exploitation need only try out for the Business Board. Here he will benefit from an apprenticeship unrivalled even by service with the rug merchants of the Constantinople bazaars...