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which seems to have had a profound effect on his outlook and beliefs. He left school at 14, and at about that time won an art competition in a national newspaper with a watercolour drawing of an aircraft; on the strength of this he obtained his first job in an advertising studios in the Strand. He
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looming he decided to volunteer for the navy before conscription started, and had spent only a few months in the Naval Patrol
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learned many aspects of commercial art there, and eventually set up a studio in
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