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After the icy blasts and terrors of Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn, sundrenched Tahiti, lazing in the trade winds, seemed a double paradise. The island girls proved eager for the transports, if not the transits, of Venus. To Cook's 18th century mind, it was a matter of their being noble savages "who have not even the idea of indecency" but did have early know-how: "In other countries the girls and unmarried women are supposed to be wholly ignorant of what others upon occasions may appear to know . . . but here it is just contrary. Among other diversions...
...turn of the century, the most famous painting in the U.S. was Custer's Last Fight, a huge canvas across which hordes of infuriated redskins hurled themselves at General George A. Custer and the last of his 7th Cavalry at Little Big Horn. The man who made the picture famous was a St. Louis brewer named Adolphus Busch,* co-founder of Anheuser-Busch and inventor of Budweiser beer. Reproduced on outdoor posters and hung in countless saloons, Custer's Last Fight became an amazingly successful advertisement. The company filled 1,000,000 requests for copies in 50 years...
Jeers for Arnold. At Valley Forge, Peale got a chance to lay aside his powder horn for his paintbox. Using bedticking for canvas, he painted Lafayette, Washington, General Nathanael Greene and a host of other officers, turned out miniatures on ivory on the side. Once, when painting General Washington in 1777, Peale found himself eyewitnessing a high moment in history. An aide handed Washington a dispatch. After one glance, Washington for a moment lost his iron control, jubilantly shouted, "Burgoyne is taken," then quickly resumed his solemn pose...
...Paris." Father's Home Town. In Paris the mayor shopped, dined with the Duchess of Westminster, assured Octogenarian Sir Charles Mendl that he looked younger than ever, and delighted French haberdashers by wearing a pleated shirt with his dinner jacket. He was impressed with Paris' anti-horn-honking regulation, but feared that such a rule could not be enforced in New York without extra police...
...There's My Old Flag!" At the West Point Museum, the President pored over Custer's last battle map of the Little Big Horn country, and the courier's note that brought his last despairing cry for rein forcements. "Oh, look at this," cried the President, espying "Little Phil" Sheridan's gold-plated Winchester. Then, through an open doorway, the President spotted the flaming-sword emblem of his Supreme Headquarters in Europe, and he blurted: "Oh, by gosh, there's my old flag. I'd forgotten I sent that up here." Afterward, the President...