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...most fashionable portraitist now active is René Bouché (rhymes with touché). He may also be the best. Last week at Manhattan's Alexander Iolas Gallery, Bouché had on view a brilliant display of what his flickering, sweet-and-sour brush can do. Recent subjects: Truman Capote, Isak Dinesen, Anita Loos, Elsa Maxwell, Mrs. William Paley, the Duchess of Windsor, Lady Astor, the Duchess of Argyll and Alexander Calder...
...artists still outside the gallery circuit, tapped lesser-knowns as well for the two $500 sculpture awards. The painting winners: Manhattan's Zygmunt Menkes for his bright Girl with Mirror; San Francisco's Frank Ashley for his lively #12 Adler (see color page): Manhattan's Louis Bouché for his quiet Still Life with Blocks; Westchester County's Edmond Fitzgerald for his ashcan-ish My Studio; Manhattan's Sidney Gross for his abstract Promontory; Brooklyn's Joan Starwood for her abstract Fugue in Blue-Green; and Manhattan's Erne Joseph for his abstract...
Scottish clergymen saw the hand of God in the collapse of the bridge-because the train had traveled on a Sunday. But most people simply blamed the designer, Sir Thomas Bouch (already knighted for his achievement), who in his plans had made no allowance for the wind. Bouch, with his schoolboy mathematics, cut a grim and pitiable figure at the inevitable court of inquiry. His design for the girders, it seems, had just come to him in conversation. Holes in the castings had been plugged with "Beaumont Egg," a sort of crude metal paste. For once the public had found...
...dash, and trying for second in the 200. Bob Twitchell won the dash and took second in the hurdles, while Pete Dow and Ed Grutsner scored five points apiece, winning the 240 and 600 yard races respectively. In the latter race Coach Jaakko Mikkola kept Ronnie Berman on the bouch...
...French-born interior decorator, Bouché grew up in Manhattan, ran an art gallery in his youth. During the '20s and '30s, he painted "miles and miles" of chic murals, which earned him a lot of money but little self-satisfaction. Today he concentrates on the minor easel-painting he is best at, and to teaching at Manhattan's Art Students League. Bouché's students are apt to be startled at first by such obiter dicta as: ¶ "Artists are multiplying to such an extent it's a national disease. Their terrific concern...