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...smart, got ahead fast, was soon doing a brokerage business on the side. When he met Mette Gad, a Danish girl on a visit to Paris, her strapping body, naturalness and intelligence appealed to him. They married, settled down to raise a family. Paul was making good money, Mette was social and a good spender. Shortly before the birth of their first child, Paul took up drawing as a hobby. Gradually he became more & more interested in it, took to painting. But Mette never suspected how serious he was, even when he sent a picture to the Salon...
...Author's real name is Paul; he was named for his late great father, but his mother always called him by the Danish diminutive. Half-Danish, half-French with a dash of Peruvian, Pola Gauguin was born in Paris, brought up in Copenhagen, lives now in Oslo, Norway. An architect, art critic, painter in his own right, 54-year-old Pola Gauguin has five canvases in the National Gallery at Oslo, but has never attempted to set either the Seine or the South Seas on fire...
...frosty February day at the Century's turn, a gangling, 20-year-old Danish immigrant with $30 in his pocket ambled down a gangplank at Ellis Island. He was gawking at the New World's wonders when an impetuous deckhand bumped him from behind, let out a. roar: "Hurry up, you s- o-a b-!" After 37 years, Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, known now as Vice President William S. Knudsen of General Motors, still likes to tell about this introduction to his adopted land, says that he accepted it forthwith as the national gospel. Chuckles...
Thus ended the honeymoon-campaign tour of Democrat Ruth Bryan Owen, retired U. S. Minister to the Court of King Christian of Denmark and Captain Boerge Rohde of His Danish Majesty's Life Guards...
...strip, they become the instantly recognized and hilariously appreciated source of an international guffaw. Only by reconstructing the characters in the strip does Piccadilly Jim restore the abused Petts to sanity, establish himself with Ann, preserve his father from masquerading, for Eugenia's sake, as a Danish Count in tortoise-shell glasses and crepe whiskers...