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Point of View. In Harwich, Mass., a real-estate agent showed a prospect some seaside property, was asked whether the water had much undertow, quickly answered: "Yes, indeed. The finest on Cape Cod...
Gallerygoers noted Kantor's never-failing subtlety of color and texture, his sculpturesque use of form, but most of them preferred the more simply enjoyable Cape Cod sand dunes, big trees and haunted houses of previous Kantor phases...
...years, Charles (Henry) Davis of Cape Cod, Philadelphia and New York has accumulated more than a million dollars, a distinguished white mustache, a list of 40 miscellaneous clubs and societies (including the Bankers Club, National Association for the Protection of Roadside Beauty), and a bagful of curious ideas which he will dispense upon request. Last September, Davis, attired in a yachting cap, double-breasted blue jacket with a saucer-sized gold highway badge pinned on the inside, astounded his guests with the simple announcement: "You're looking at the next President of the United States." Later he disclosed that...
...above the average 17th Century Jack Tar (e.g., he spoke four languages fluently). Like most of his contemporaries, he wrote phonetically-"yeuneuerseti" for university, "yeumer" (humor), "bin" (been), "westinges" (West Indies). Born in Kent, in 1633, he became coxswain and gunner aboard merchantmen whose loads ranged from Newfoundland cod to indigo, currants and muscadine wine. Between voyages: "[I] took large liberty in drinking and sporting as the manner of seamen generally...
Consumer's Research. In Clifton, N.J., Roland Michaud, 2½, discovered the family medicine chest, ate 32 aspirin tablets, drank a bottle of cough medicine, huge doses of castor oil and cod liver oil, had his stomach pumped out, felt fine...