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...windswept mountain lideout, and make grey weather, the texture of trees and the vitality of the figures add up to visual pleasure. An unaffected director of home and bedroom scenes, he even manages, without bathos or leer, to jet away with a shot of Cagney sitting on lis mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Quebec City it was a great day. Flags and bunting had been hung from public buildings and churches; prominent among the decorations were the yellow and white colors of the papacy and nostalgic fleurs-de-lis. Bells of 27 Roman Catholic churches pealed a welcome. From behind grey clouds the sun burst forth, as the car bearing the tall, 42-year-old archbishop-designate, the Most Rev. Maurice Roy, drove through the crowded streets. Women pushed to the car's side, held up their children for a blessing. Msgr. Roy had arrived for his consecration as the eleventh archbishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Enthronement | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Varsity lineup will show some radical changes since lis last and only official appearance December 18, when a highly-regarded Boston University team succumbed 5 to 4. With the graduation of Ili Taylor and Bill Glidden, the defensive posts will be filled by Lou Preston, a rookie flash who once played for St. Paul's School, and Loring Briggs, who skates like a mack truck but works wonders with his stick...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Revised Sextet Seeks Victory Over Holy Cross After Long Hibernation | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...House of Bourbon's golden fleur-de-lis dropped low last week. For days Generalissimo Francisco Franco's great yellow Mercedes-Benz, manned with chaffeur and aide, had waited in Lisbon to carry Don Juan to Spain. Juan had hesitated. Then suddenly, Franco's car was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Royal Standards Down | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...help the proposed committee in its task, some 400 Canadians had already sent flag designs, ranging from dull to weird, into Ottawa (see cut). Most of them favored a maple leaf. Other ideas: a beaver, a fir tree, wheat, the French fleur-de-lis, stars, miniature Union Jacks, a design like the U.S. flag, with a stripe for each of the Dominion's nine provinces. CCFer Gladys Strum proposed a flag picturing "a buffalo, a beaver, a maple leaf and a mountain. Yes, and we had better have a river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Wanted: a Flag | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

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