Word: bouchere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visitors stumbled from the wild visions of the Apocalypse into a wonderland of lions, unicorns and delicate ladies in heavy gowns. From that high point of fantasy, the art gradually declined to the 18th Century confections of pastoral sex and sweetness designed by Boucher and Oudry. To imitate such painted designs, painstaking weavers had used as many as 30,000 different shades of thread...
...regrets the turn hockey has taken is taciturn Frank Boucher, an Irishman with a French name (rhymes with touché), who coaches the New York Rangers. Boucher, one of the greatest playmaking centers ever to wear skates, was one of the first coaches to install the new fire-horse technique. "Any club that doesn't use it," he insists, "will have its brains beaten out." It also gives coaches some jittery moments. A coach's most difficult task under the new style, says Boucher, is getting his men to switch quickly from five-man offense to five...
Toronto has brawn, getting by on what one rival manager calls "bull strength and ignorance." Montreal has Maurice Richard (TIME, March 3), still probably the game's No. 1 player; Boucher's up-&-coming Rangers have speed and depth; Detroit the league's best defense. The Boston Bruins, though weak on defense, have had few goals scored against them, largely because of incomparable Frank ("Mr. Zero") Brimsek, a goalie who has the knack of always being...
...Boucher scored all of the Boston touchdowns on long runs. In the first period an end sweep was good for 87 yards and in the third a kick-off runback covered half the field. Bill Rosenau made both Harvard conversions...
With but minutes to play in the game and the Yardlings ahead by a 14 to 13 count, B.U. freshman Bob Boucher intercepted a long forward heave by Jim Lowell and seampered 60 yards to the goal line to turn victory into a 20 to 14 defeat for the Crimson Freshmen at Soldiers Field Saturday...