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Included in the Ottawa collection are two of Davies' earliest sketches done in 1758, one depicting the burning of Grymross, Nova Scotia, by British troops and another a detailed drawing of the new British fortifications with key points carefully labeled: "A. Fort Frederick. B. Huts built by the Rangers. C. Passage up the River. Davies' later views of Montreal, Quebec and Halifax are valued as the first to be recorded in Canadian history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: SOLDIER'S CONQUEST | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...months last year after he peevishly buzzed Teterboro's control tower, taxied his DC-3 at the scene of the crime, this time clipped a ground approach light with his wing. Unaware that he had dented the wing and ripped a deicer, he nonchalantly took off for Nova Scotia. The tower called Godfrey, broke the news that he had just had a slight accident. Surprised as he could be, Pilot Godfrey returned to the field, where all was forgiven as an inadvertent mishap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...Weakling. When he was 18, Little Joe O'Brien rode an empty coal car into Nova Scotia to take a job as driver and trainer for a River Hebert horseman. He weighed 100 lbs. soaking wet, and looked like a shy weakling. But he had a way with horses. Soon he was driving and winning on bush tracks in New England and the Maritimes. He took a broken-down, eleven-year-old gelding named Dudey Patch and patched him up so well that he became a Canadian champion. On the little country tracks around the U.S. and Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Joe | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

Mozart: Rondo in A Minor, K. 511 (Guiomar Novaès, piano; Vox). One of the remarkable compositions of Mozart's last years, this rondo spaces out a pretty, parlor-music theme with unusual interludes of poignance and even tragedy. Brazilian Pianist Novaès plays it (and three sonatas) with warmth and strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

What is "Freedom of the Press?" It would be interesting to have definitions from some of the newspaper editors who are always screaming about their freedom-especially interesting to see how their definitions circumvent their "coverage" of the Lou Nova case [June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 4, 1955 | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

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