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This week, before setting out to win friends in the Maritimes, the Drews stopped off in Ottawa to settle the business of George's seat in Parliament. A safe one was found: the Ottawa south riding of Carleton, where Tory Russel Boucher agreed to step down. In 25 elections Carleton has returned Tories 25 times, including Prime Ministers Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Robert Borden. The Drews could take that record as a good omen...
Naked Heroes. A pupil of his great-uncle Francois Boucher, David was brought up to be a boudoir painter, trained in the sentimental and erotic elegance that the court demanded. But young David was a difficult student; he simply could not learn to paint charmingly. At 27 he took off for Rome, looked at the statues and pictures, and came back a fighting antiquary. Brutus and the Horatii were his idols; he painted them to resemble the antique sculpture he admired, posturing naked and grand in a cool world. To complaints about la nudit...
...acre estate in San Marino, Calif., in sight of the Sierra Madres, Huntington built two immense homes for his treasures. There, in a hall lined with million-dollar Boucher tapestries, he held many a midnight session with Rosenbach and Sir Joseph Duveen, planning collecting coups. Then, in 1919, Huntington deeded the whole kit & caboodle to the public. "The ownership of a fine library," he observed, "is the swiftest and surest way to immortality...
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...
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...