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Many experts, like Senior Editor George Church, are drawn to their disciplines irresistibly by the forces of supply and demand. "The reason I began reporting business," Church admits, "was that I heard the Wall Street Journal was hiring people with no experience." Thus in 1954, Church began his apprenticeship on the Journal, reporting on the food and textile industries. "I found myself far more fascinated with business than I had expected," he recalls. "It requires the type of mind that enjoys puzzles-the more pieces, the better." Since joining TIME in 1969, Church has unraveled economic enigmas in dozens...
...doing, smiled broadly, spread his arms and said, "I've decided Im going to become the chronicler of the decay of New Orieans". He was answering my question pobliquely; that is to say, he was saying he was happy. He had just combleted a sort of spiritual apprenticeship another, older photographeer who had spent his life taking pictures of old plantations crumbling to dust and being overtaken by vines up the Mississippi River a ways, and it was all starting to make sense to my friend...
Died. Rod Serling, 50, television and motion-picture writer and creator of the supernaturally spooky series Twilight Zone; of a heart attack; in Rochester, N.Y. After a grueling apprenticeship as a freelance scriptwriter, Serling went on to write Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight and other major television plays, earning six Emmy awards, more than any other writer...
Wallace Muhammad's apprenticeship was uneasy. He quarreled with his father and twice dropped out of the movement. Moreover, he does not have his father's compelling personal force. But so far, at least, he appears to be holding off the fierce power struggle that had been widely expected to follow Elijah's passing. Certainly, Muslim Spokesman Abdul Haleem (Louis) Farrakhan, the most charismatic figure in the movement today, is at pains to dispel rumors that he was moved from his potent Harlem base to the sect's Chicago headquarters so that Wallace could keep...
Dreyfuss started acting at the age of eleven, playing Theodore Herzl at the West Side Jewish Center in Los Angeles. He became a recognizable movie personality in American Graffiti and a major film actor in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. While the filming of Jaws wound on, Dreyfuss would cry in mock frustration, "What am I doing out in the middle of the goddam ocean when I could be back in civilization, making personal appearances...