His professional career began when he was twenty ; ;

He returned to New York to work for The New Yorker, to edit a Western pulp, to `` duck the war in the OWI '', to write publicity for Paramount Pictures and commentary for a newsreel, then he began his career as critic for various magazines.

And the career of Konrad Adenauer, who upheld Germany's tradition of rock-like leaders which Bismarck began, draws near the end.

A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

He began his coaching career at Pittsburgh Central Catholic High School in 1949.

That March he began his political career with his first campaign for the Illinois General Assembly.

However, he continued his slave trading career until 1754 or 1755, when he ended his seafaring altogether and began studying Christian theology.

Later joining the Roman army, he began his career under the Gothic soldier Gainas.

* Clark Gable, actor, began his career at the Astoria Theatre in 1922.

In the 1960s Korner began a media career, working initially as a show business interviewer and then on ITV's Five O ' Clock Club, a children's TV show.

She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D. C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.

While Judah I was still living, Rav, having been duly ordained as teacher — though not without certain restrictions ( Sanhedrin 5a )— returned to Babylonia, where he at once began a career that was destined to mark an epoch in the development of Babylonian Judaism.

In 1904, he travelled to Berlin to study philosophy, but set aside his studies soon and began a career as a professional chess player that same year.

He began his career fighting the revolutionary armies of France.

His youth was spent in Tuscany, at Vienna and in the Austrian Netherlands, where he began his career of military service in the war of the French Revolution.

The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Guiler pursued his banking career and Nin began to pursue her interest in writing ; in her diaries she also mentions having trained as a flamenco dancer in Paris in the mid-to-late 1920s.

Like Cole Porter at Yale and Richard Rodgers at Columbia, his career in musical theater began with his collegiate contributions, in Lerner's case to the annual Harvard Hasty Pudding musicals.

He changed his surname from Einstein ( to avoid confusion with the famous physicist ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Thackeray began his professional career as a cartoonist with the English language daily the The Free Press Journal in Mumbai, but left it in 1960 to form his own political weekly Marmik.

Walsh began his pro coaching career in 1966 as an assistant with the AFL's Oakland Raiders.

Initially his mother was reluctant to let him commit to an insecure football career, so he began an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer ; however he went on to turn professional in October 1954.

His caps record lasted until 1973 when Bobby Moore overtook him, and Charlton currently lies fourth in the all-time England appearances list behind Moore, David Beckham and Peter Shilton, whose own England career began in the first game after Charlton's had ended.

Costas began his professional career at KMOX radio in St. Louis, Missouri, where he served as a play-by-play announcer for the Spirits of St. Louis of the American Basketball Association in 1974.

He began his professional career at the age of six, and has worked on over 400 television episodes, 18 motion pictures, various commercials, and scores of voice over work, as well as working as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and writer.

He began his professional career in this way, as the group toured English music halls from 1899 to 1902.

The height of Nimzowitsch's career was the late 1920s and early 1930s.

The trio was written late in the " middle period " ( spanning roughly 1803 to 1814 ) of Beethoven's compositional career.

Following a brief modeling career in the late 1960s, Berenson became a freelance photographer.

Nonetheless, he and his band continued to be a popular touring act, enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1960s with the Rock and roll revival movement and the signing of a lucrative record deal with the European Sonet Records label.

After initially building his career on " tough guy " roles Lancaster abandoned his " all-American " image in the late 1950s in favor of more complex and challenging roles, and came to be regarded as one of the best actors of his generation as a result.

Love began a budding acting career in the late 1980s, landing roles in two Alex Cox films ( Sid and Nancy and Straight to Hell ), but was ultimately dissatisfied with it and returned to stripping, where she was recognized and photographed by customers at a bar in McMinnville, Oregon.

The ancient Roman concept of virtus ( i. e. of virtue that had to be proved by a political or military career ), which Cicero suggested as the solution to the societal problems of the late Republic, meant little to them.

Also they oversaw the organization of festivals and games ( ludi ), which made this a very sought after office for a career minded politician of the late republic, as it was a good means of gaining popularity by staging spectacles.

The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1932 and became known as " The House That Doak Built " due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s Eisenhower's career in the post war army stalled somewhat, as military priorities diminished ; many of his friends resigned for high-paying business jobs.

At the same time, the system's commercial regimentation and focus on glamorous escapism discouraged daring and ambition beyond a certain degree, a prime example being the brief but still legendary directing career of the iconoclastic Erich von Stroheim in the late teens and the ‘ 20s.

Lineker still helped out on the stall at the height of his playing career during the late 1980s and early 1990s, though usually only in the closed season.

Though Palestrina represents late Renaissance music well, others such as Orlande de Lassus ( a Franco-Flemish composer who also spent some of his early career in Italy ) and William Byrd were arguably more versatile.

In late 1693 or early 1694 his mother sent him to a school in Zellerfeld, hoping that this would convince her son to choose a different career.

His career was also severely affected by a car accident in 1962 on Blackpool promenade, when the sports car in which he was returning late to his hotel was blown by a gust of wind into the path of another vehicle.

Brando's notoriety, his troubled family life, and his obesity attracted more attention than his late acting career.

With that, the Nets employed all three Albert brothers during the franchise's history ; Al started his broadcast career with the Nets during their ABA days, while Steve called Nets games during the late 1970s and 1980s.

A painting of Bismarck, late in his career

In the following years he continued to express the British preference for man-hauling ( the practice of propelling sledges by manpower, unassisted by animals ), a view he maintained until very late in his Antarctic career.

Clemens was alleged by the Mitchell Report to have used anabolic steroids during his late career, mainly based on testimony given by his former trainer Brian McNamee.

As his solo career began to extend outside Japan in the late 1980s, Sakamoto's explorations, influences, and collaborators followed suit.

In the late 1980s Moog repaired the original theremin of Clara Rockmore, an accomplishment he considered a high point of his professional career.

The modern legend that follows below is synthesised from early and late hagiographical sources, omitting the more fantastical episodes, to narrate a purely human military career in closer harmony with modern expectations of reality.