Word: professional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second Lieut. Felix ("Doc") Blanchard, blockbusting "Mr. Inside" of West Point's great wartime football teams, was busy concentrating on his profession. Learning to fly jet fighters at Williams Field, Ariz., he tried on a crash helmet, just for a moment struck a pose reminiscent of old times (see...
"Painting," Bernard's father, an insurance clerk, warned, "is a hungry profession." But Bernard didn't go hungry long. Of his first 30 melancholy canvases ("Who will buy these dreary things?" his art dealer asked), he sold 26. He has been selling ever since.
"The life of a literary man who has achieved success," observed Somerset Maugham in the Atlantic, "is not as a rule interesting . . . His profession obliges him to devote a certain number of hours a day to his work . . ."
Seven out of ten graduates believe their college courses helped them "a lot" in their present occupation. If they had it to do over again, 83.5% would attend the same college, and only 2.1% would not go to college at all. But one in four wishes he had chosen another...
He was amazed at the fortune his painting brought him ("It can't be mine," he said once when someone told him his bank balance. "They've made a mistake at the bank; it must belong to someone else"). He felt miscast as a portraitist: "Portrait painting is...