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...hemming & haw-hawing, the Royal Academy at last admitted that modern, school-of-Paris art might be art. To let Britons judge the stuff for themselves, the academy last week opened a show of France's top moderns. Among those best represented were Utrillo, Rouault, Braque, Chagall, Leger and Matisse*-all of them old men now. Critics and the earnest students who jammed the exhibition rapturously agreed that it was great. But the old guard closed ranks, fixed bayonets, and refused to surrender...
...Montreal's tactful, liberal-minded Archbishop Paul-Emile Leger, 46, onetime head of the Canadian Pontifical College in Rome, who was raised to the archbishopric only last year...
Stripped but Appreciated. Considering that Calder's Paris friends included the abstractionists Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro and Piet Mondrian, it is not surprising that he soon stripped his circus of recognizable features, while constantly complicating and improving its visual qualities. In the end, he created one of the most amusing sideshows of modern art, lodged samples of it in half a dozen leading museums...
Last week, for the first time in 71 years, a French-bred horse won England's classic St. Leger. The winner, by a length, was Marcel Boussac's tall, long-striding chestnut colt, Scratch II. For the British, who have an aversion to invasions, the result was doubly dour since another French horse finished second. For dapper Owner Boussac ("I am delighted, delighted") and Jockey Rae Johnstone, it was the third time this year they had taken the British into camp; they had won the Derby with Galcador and the Oaks with Asmena...
...that Boussac got last week for winning the St. Leger made him^the leading 1950 money-earner on British tracks. He was already the French Deader by a country kilometer. Back of his long string of victories is a string of 300 horses including 100 brood mares and eight stud stallions. About 100 of the horses are always in training under oldtime French Jockey Charles Semblat. When they cross the Channel, they travel in a special Bristol...