Word: boise
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was a village teeming with overland adventurers (coureurs des bois), boatmen (voyageurs), townsmen (habitants). "There were spruce military men from the American garrison which had been placed over the village when it passed from French rule four years ago. ... To a Quaker it was strange for a town to...
Died. William Harrison ("Sparrow") Robertson, veteran gossip columnist of the Paris Herald; at Bois-le-Roi, France (see p. 44).
Paul Bowles's music is a good deal more mature than this allegorical scheme, but it, too, is lacklustre. On the credit side is Designer Raoul Pene du Bois's most effective setting, a chill, ominous picture of dawn in the park, which is never matched by anything...
The idea of a pan American ski comgene Du Bois '33 of New York City and "Cannto El Magnifice" Errazuriz, cap tain of this year's team when Du Bois was in South America in 1936 covering President Roosevelt's tour of Latin America.
Since then two U. S. teams have competed in the Pan American ski championships held in the Andes in 1937 and 1938. Du Bois, chairman of the Chilean Team Committee of the National Ski Association of America, is making all arrangements for the Chilean skiers tour.