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...favorite model, is a Minneapolis girl whom he met when she studied the piano at Fontainebleau. Last spring Sculptress Lillie Harper organized her fellow Fontainebleau alumni, borrowed the buildings of Gull Hill School at Orleans, Mass., got Artist Despujols to transfer Fontainebleau's art school to Cape Cod. There this week, on Bastille Day, it made its formal bow to local society...
...Artist Despujols' pupils are Fontainebleau alumni. Instead of a palace for their studio, they have a roomy, north-lighted barn which last year was Gull Hill School's stable, next year will be its gymnasium. Instead of Paris they have Provincetown. Artist Despujols looks at Cape Cod's scrub pines, sand dunes and squat frame houses with a cheerful eye. Says he: "It is not the Isle de France but it is equally paintable...
...CRIMINAL C.O.D.-Phoebe Atwood Taylor-Norfon ($2). Asey Mayo, mooching around among Cape Cod characters, uses the Quashnet party line and other local antiquities to nail the killer of Henry P. Slocum, rising politician, and his girl. Title-point is an express package delivered to the doctor, containing you-know-what, packed...
...loose in air raids), keepers, some of whom had spent 25 years with reptiles, wept unashamed. After partial evacuation, the Zoo was reopened, but animals' hardships grew. When fish became scarce, penguins and sea lions had to gag down meat faked to seem fishy with a coating of cod-liver oil. Heating was reduced, and Felix the rhinoceros caught cold. Several zoos asked citizens to "adopt" animals by paying their keep. Typical rates: giant panda, ?2 a week; elephant or okapi, 30 shillings; squirrel, dormouse or hummingbird, one shilling...
Recalled last week were Colonel Apted's biggest exploits: the time he recovered Massachusetts' Sacred Cod, stolen from the State House; the time he produced Handsome Dan, bulldog mascot stolen from Yale; the time he picked up a bomb and foiled an attempt to blow up Harvard's old Yard pump...