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...Quebec, where men often demand freedom to evade the fight for freedom, opposition to conscription reached strange extremes : In Sherbrooke, Gunner Lucien Rocheleau testified that Mrs. Theodore Provencher had told him to wrap a religious, picture in blue silk (color of the Virgin Mary), hang it around his neck. Then she had given him a special prayer to read on nine consecutive nights, finally some pills to make him sick and insure his discharge from the army. For these services his mother paid Mrs. Provencher $16. The Mounted Police charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: QUEBEC: Potion for Slackers | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Most literary picture was The Letter, a water color by Lucien Ribera showing a minutely realistic man's hand, whiskey glass, deck of cards, engagement ring, and a letter ending: "and so I am returning the ring. Try to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Independents' 28th | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...next hour was full of our boys parachuting down. Lucien landed in a pile of brush, wrapped himself in his parachute and went to sleep. Brick landed hard on his fanny on top of the next mountain peak and dozed off. One boy landed beside a mountain ledge, lit a cigaret in the dark, flicked the burnt butt on the ground beside him. He looked down and saw the butt dropping hundreds of feet below him into what seemed a bottom less void. He didn't move another foot until daylight. Crouch hit the ground about 20 miles from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Trip to Japan | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

Chief speaker for the evening will be Lucien Price, editor of the Boston Globe and heart and soul of the editorial page of that paper. This is in accordance with the custom in past years which has brought such famed men to the speakers' table as Raymond Gram Swing, recent recipient of an honorary degree from Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Will Hold Traditional Dinner | 3/19/1943 | See Source »

...speakers on the program will be John P. Kennedy '44, chairman of the House Committee; Lucien Price, Editor of the Boston Globe; and Roger B. Merriman, former master of the House and Gurney Professor of History and Political Science. All House alumni are invited and it is hoped that those who can will attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Eliot's Birthday to Be Marked by Dinner Here | 3/11/1943 | See Source »

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