Holbrooke, who had apprenticed under doughty establishment figures like Henry Cabot Lodge, W. Averell Harriman and Dean Rusk, never became secretary of state.
He was mentored by a dealer and painter, Theo van Wijngaarden, who had apprenticed in chicanery with a titan: Leo Nardus.
Instead of going to college, he had apprenticed with a chef for nearly a year, before heading to prison.
Eventually, some of us even found out that, as a young man, he had apprenticed himself to Robert Graves, and run away with Graves's girlfriend!
A high-school dropout from Brooklyn with the dashing looks of a young Dion, he had apprenticed under John D'Angelico, the other giant of postwar archtop design.
Another Lombardi, Joseph, of no relation, had apprenticed at Temple Court as a young man in 1956, buying sandwiches at the nearby Horn & Hardart automat.
When that company moved to New Jersey, Mr. Shulsky hired the architect Edgar Tafel -- an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright, who had apprenticed under Sullivan -- to refurbish the lobby.
Newton bought his first camera in 1932, and by the age of 17 had apprenticed himself to the theatrical photographer Yva (Else Simon).
The rooms of the Hammond-Harwood House are not only flawlessly proportioned, but also, because Buckland had apprenticed in England as a joiner, contain superbly decorated woodwork.
