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When Don Grimes, a graduate of the University of Illinois, who had served an apprenticeship as an A. & P. store manager, joined I.G.A., there were 748 stores. He worked his way through several jobs, became assistant to the president after a three-year Army hitch, president when his father retired last year...
...three student years in Paris, came home to paint pale echoes of Raoul Dufy. In the last decade, he has spent more and more time in the villages of Anatolia, found much inspiration in Turkish folk art. The delicate brushwork and preference for pastel colors that marked his European apprenticeship have given way to strongly accentuated designs, contrasting glittery masses against vivid backgrounds (see opposite page...
...brothers all attended Connecticut's Hotchkiss School, and in summer, worked in the Rouge or other plants getting their hands greasy. They kept up this apprenticeship during college. None was an outstanding scholar. Henry quit Yale in his senior year ('40) with insufficient credits to graduate, and Benson, a sophomore, quit Princeton the same year. Only Billy (Yale '50) graduated...
...educated him, baptized him Johnstone Kamau. After this he learned carpentry, edited the first Kikuyu-language newspaper and studied black magic. "My grandfather was a seer and a magician," he later wrote, "and in traveling about with him and carrying his bag of equipment, I served a kind of apprenticeship in the principles of the art." In 1929 he was sent to London to present Kikuyu grievances to the British government. His view: "Africans are not hostile to Western civilization as such . . . but they are in an intolerable position when the European invasion destroys the very basis of their...
Ghika served his apprenticeship in Paris, soaking up great art in its museums and loud argument in its noisy bistros. He first tried formal study in the city's Academic Ranson, but soon gave it up. Ghika got his own studio, met Picasso, Braque, and Jean Arp, and learned the hard way. At first, he copied the impressionist manner of Renoir, then progressed to Cézanne and Seurat, and finally found what he was looking for in cubism. When Ghika held his first Paris show in 1927, it was a near sellout...