Word: bouchere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fantasy is the idea of Anthony Boucher, 38, a top mystery writer (creator of Sister Ursula, the nun-detective) and J. Francis McComas, 39, onetime radio announcer and wonder-story writer. They will co-edit the new magazine. It took two years to fit Fantasy into Spivak's small operation, which requires a staff of only six to put out the unprofitable Mercury, the profitable Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and 30 cut-down mystery reprints a year...
Full color winners: Sam Adams, Bill Boucher, John Carey, Ed Davis, John Densmore, Joe Eaton, John Emerson, Hollis French, Al Green, Al Key, Peter Manning Smith, Colin McIntyre, Tom Nuzum, Ford Schoch, Lou Travis, Len Wheeler, Ed white, Charles Whiting...
...front are a healthy lot. Peter Manning-Smith, Lou Travis, and Bill Boucher will as usual make up the front line of the scrum, Ferd Schoch and Ed White the second, and John Carey, Joe Soriano, and Eddie Davis the outer shell...
...Harvard lineup: forwards--Manning-Smith, Travis, Boucher, Schoch, Gilbert, Carey, Soriano, Davis; backs--McIntyre, French, Adams, Key, Densmore, Eaton, Green...
...sometimes they had both. The Met's figure of a girl frightened by a snake, done at Höchst about 1770, might be ill-proportioned, but no one could miss its rococo liveliness. The flowery Music Lesson, modeled at Chelsea from a painting by François Boucher (see cut), and the Sevres portrait of M. Fagon (Louis XIV's doctor) neatly blended wit and workmanship. Five hundred such pieces, crammed into three small rooms at the Met, made a sparkling show...