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...father, a scholarly colonial employee who was fired by the French for his "patriotic" activities. After schooling in Hué and Saigon, Ho (then known as Nguyen Tat Thanh) headed for Europe in 1912 as a cabin boy on a French steamer. After a brief apprenticeship at London's Carlton Hotel under the famed chef Escoffier, Ho drifted on to Paris...
...sailor's return to a small Missouri town where his magnetic male presence delights his widowed mother, unnerves a maiden schoolteacher who boards with the family, and quickens the pulse of everyone he meets. Reluctant to resume his old job as an auto mechanic, Bus declines an apprenticeship with a homosexual undertaker and becomes a door-to-door peddler, sweeping bored housewives into his arms while whispering the praises of a new miracle cleaner. Next he lapses into adultery with his former steady (Ann-Margret), now married, of course, to "a wealthy older man." Since Ann-Margret...
...future wife, N. C.'s daughter Henriette, then 16, and now an accomplished artist herself. N. C. taught Moby Dick and Dostoevsky as well as painting. "He was a terrific stickler for detail," recalls Hurd, who became fast friends with Andrew Wyeth during his six-year apprenticeship. "We have in common the ability to identify ourselves with objects," says...
...bureau gets applications from 400 aspiring young journalists. Since 1959, Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism has sent some of its most promising students to C.N.B. for three months of on-the-job training. Even outside the Middle West, City News training is recognized as a valuable apprenticeship for the newsman en route to a big-city byline...
...best defender of their particular brand of earth. At 71, senile and just two years short of death, he was dispatched to the War of Polish Succession. Outnumbered 5 to 1 by the forces of France, he failed miserably. Years later, Frederick the Great, remembering his days of apprenticeship, mourned the fate of both Eugen and Marlborough. "What a humbling reflection for our vanity," he wrote. "The greatest geniuses end up as imbeciles. Poor humanity, boast of your glory if you dare...