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Paule Emile LaPointe, chief pilot for Quebecair Inc., a Canadian bush airline, was making a routine charter flight in a Douglas DC-3 from Goose Bay, Labrador to Mont Joli, Quebec one afternoon last June. With him was his copilot, Bill Awatter. Because the weather was clear, they dropped to about 1,000 feet and began looking for a Beechcraft that had been lost with two men aboard earlier this year. Awatter took the controls, and LaPointe concentrated on ground search...
Last week the three men announced that they had sold options on their claims for $15,000 to the Hollinger (Quebec) Exploration Co., a subsidiary of Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd. If the Hollinger Co. buys the claims, the purchase price, payable in annual installments over 27 years and tax free as capital gains, will...
...Cornelius Krieghoff fought for the U.S. against the Indians, then went over the hill into Canada and became Quebec's most popular artist. Influenced by Currier & Ives, he produced a rich record of mid-19th century life in the snowy north...
...Ozias Leduc is a Quebec brother to Philadelphia's late Thomas Eakins. His Madame Lebrun, painted in 1899, has the same passionate sobriety that made Eakins great. Both men began with Rembrandt, but neither knuckled under to the old master. They were as true to their age and hemisphere as Rembrandt had been to his. To portraitists of such quality, models are not only flesh and bones in a chair but also thoughts and feelings in the air. Madame Lebrun's sad, narrow gaze-as much as her elegant blouse and the stiffness of her spine-is forever...
Died. Cameron Morrison, 83, wealthy one-term governor of North Carolina (1921-25), onetime U.S. Senator (1930-32) and U.S. Representative (1943-45); while vacationing in Quebec. Morrison lost the 1932 Senate Democratic primary race by some 100,000 votes to roaring Bob Reynolds, who followed him in a model T and, imitating Morrison's dignified strut, described to shocked North Carolina hillbillies Cam's favorite dish: "It's caw-vee-yah . . . It's little black fish eggs, and it comes from Red Russia...