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...cities (pop. over 100,000) were spending $246.71 a year per public-school pupil-a rise of more than 90% since...
...went to Irene Williams, a former operatic singer, who gave him a lesson every other day for two years. Teacher Williams, who is now suing Lanza for breach of contract, was convinced that he had great possibilities, but she found him a lazy pupil, unwilling to train seriously. Since his mother had to get up at 5:30 a.m. to go to work, Freddy's father would serve him breakfast in bed. "Sometimes," recalls the teacher, "he'd be barely awake when he came for his lesson at 2 in the afternoon. I used to chide...
...errand boy was 23-year-old Walter Sickert. Sickert made the trip count, took a long, penetrating look at the experiments of such French artists as Degas and Manet. Back home in London, he slowly and surely began painting himself out of his place as Whistler's prize pupil into a spot as one of Britain's first & foremost impressionists. Forty of Errand Boy Sickert's paintings on view in London last week showed how good...
Said Stalin's former pupil, Tito, last week...
...served early apprenticeships, Andy had the incalculable advantage of learning his craft thoroughly while he was young. No new-fangled progressive, N. C. drilled him day after day in drawing until the youth knew how to report precisely the shape and feel of what he saw. An . ordinary pupil would have gotten bored and quit, but not an artist-in-the-making...