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Named the Barton Lectureship in Elementary Education, it honors the donors, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Burton. Burton is now approaching retirement after spending 42 years in elementary teaching and teacher training--the last 16 years of which he spent as Director of Apprenticeship and lecturer on the Principles of Teaching at the School of Education. Mrs. Burton taught in Oregon schools for many years...
Like Inness, William Glackens snuggled up to nature. The only activity in a class with painting, he believed, was fishing. Glackens served an apprenticeship as an art journalist, sketching news events for the old Philadelphia Press. There he made friends with three future members of the "Ashcan School," a band of painters dedicated to mingling reporting and romance in a new. sketchy sort of realism. Glackens lent allegiance to the group, but trips to Paris awakened a far deeper loyalty to Renoir...
...against the Nazis in World War II, a patriotic Norwegian cop named Asbjoern Brhyn worked with and came to like a tall, pale young Communist named Asbjoern Sunde. Sunde ran the Red underground mercilessly and effectively, never flinching at robbery, murders or bombings. He had already served his Communist apprenticeship as a courier in the Comintern maritime service and as a volunteer in the Spanish civil war. After the war, Communist Sunde became something of a hero for his underground activities, and his memoirs, Men in Darkness, became a bestseller. Then, inevitably, the two Asbjoerns drifted apart...
...fighter pilot, Nelson, 37, served his apprenticeship on Broadway as a playwright (The Wind Is Ninety) and as an actor and stage manager in a six-year stint with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. He thinks the theater and television are on divergent courses. TV, he argues, has a different pace than the stage and infinitely more mobility: "I use three cameras on each show and, in effect, have three prosceniums." TV actors become puppets of the director, since "an actor never knows when a camera might...
Under his leadership, the School of Education has more than tripled its resources. Research laboratories and new programs of administrative apprenticeship have effected a minor revolution in American education. Keppel is admittedly pleased, but not satisfied. Glancing at an architect's of a new million-and-a-half dollar building for the school, he says, "We've only just started...