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...Friars, who defeated Holy Cross but lost to Army, boast two outstanding runners, but little depth. Number one man, junior Bill Hanlon, defeated the varsity's ace, Pete Reider, as a freshman, while number two man, senior Rod Boucher, defeated Captain Dave McLean when the two teams last...
After Hanlon and Boucher, however, comes a squad of untried sophomores. Army placed its whole team between the two Providence aces and the third Friar to finish...
...painting, Le Lorgneur or The Sidelong Glance (opposite), by famed 18th-century French Painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. Filling the rest of the gallery will be a loan exhibition of some 50 paintings and drawings by such other 18th-century French painters as Pater, Lancret, Boucher and Fragonard, testimony to the fact that the tone of elegance and grace set by Watteau in his dreamlike scenes of pastoral dalliance and fétes galantes continued straight through his century until the French Revolution...
...noted the following market trends: Old-masters market stationary with demand moderate, but a healthy trading in old Italians, especially the Venetians. French 18th century art still gilt-edged, drawing excellent prices in London and Paris, with a small Watteau sketch selling for $7,700 and a "frivolous" little Boucher bid up to $14,000. Still leading the blue chips: the impressionists...
...Boucher and Fragonard drawings opposite are included in a collection of 55 masterpieces of French and Italian drawing on loan from France's Museum of Besan-Qon and showing this week at The Detroit Institute of Arts. From Detroit the show will go on to Indianapolis, Cincinnati and San Francisco to give gallerygoers a fascinating look at what the ancien regime regarded as modern...