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Something Turns Up. Crerar is pure Scotch-Canadian. Born 56 years ago to a middleclass, nonmilitary family in Hamilton, he learned about war at the Royal Military College in Kingston. Deciding that he could not live on a junior officer's pay and unwilling to cadge from his father, he took a job as an electrical engineer, a commission in the militia, and waited for something to turn...
...artillery, left it a lieutenant colonel. Now he was fixed to stay in the Army for good. He studied at the Staff College at Camberley in England, got a duty tour at the Imperial War Office, went back to Canada and taught tactics where he had learned them, at Kingston. In 1916 he had married a handsome Toronto girl in London. They have a married daughter, and a 21-year-old son, Peter, who is a lieutenant with the Canadians in Italy. Crerar pere was in Italy when he got the call to replace McNaughton in London. He could...
Died. Georges Barrère, 67, famed flutist (TIME, Jan. 3); after a stroke; in Kingston, N.Y. Alumnus of the orchestra of Paris' Folies Bergères, Flutist Barrère spent nearly 40 years in the U.S., playing in Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony, touring with the Barrere Little Symphony, and teaching a whole generation of younger U.S. flutists. He affected an imperial beard, fawn-colored trousers, a Prince Albert and an assortment of exotic flutes made of silver, gold and platinum, valued as high as $3,000 apiece...
Inside View. In Ontario's Kingston penitentiary, a "lifer" known only as Sally announced that she would buy her fourth war bond. Said she: "In here a person gets sort of a frustrated feeling. . . . I want to see the war won just as much and as quickly...
...sometimes thought they saw it), Metropolitan Museum officials feverishly sought some shelter where their millions of dollars' worth of art would be safe from Nazi bombs. Even earlier, various vacant buildings in Westchester and Putnam Counties had been inspected and found wanting. An abandoned shale mine near Kingston seemed safe but too damp. At last a Metropolitan trustee suggested Whitemarsh Hall...