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...such a good start, however, the museum was eager to go ahead with the project. Money was forthcoming from other wealthy people, most of whom demanded only that they have the fun of shooting the animals. Three hundred thousand dollars was provided for six expeditions. Painters went along to sketch the settings in color, and photographers to snap the animals in all their natural poses. Tons of rock, earth, sand, grass, tree trunks and branches were shipped to the museum, where they were treated with a preservative and the African settings reproduced piece by piece. Artificial berries, leaves and flowers...
...status and to keep various members out of trouble." Most exasperating are Generatrix Charlotte's twins Genevieve and Albertina, who are 25 or 26 years old, 3 ft. 11 in. tall. "No amount of coaxing, flattery or bribery will induce them to let us take photographs or to sketch them. An explanation of this dislike of photography perhaps may be that provided by Albertina. . . . She flashed on the writers and announced: 'Give you my picture? A photo? Not me! The last chap I gave my picture to showed it to the police and they...
...read with much amusement and quite a little regret your graphic and colorful sketch of my old friend J. Duncan Spaeth in a recent issue of your excellent journal [TIME, April 13] Parts of it are fair and true. There can be no doubt that this versatile scholar and forceful figure and leader of men is careless of his appearances, and well might be likened to a shaggy Airedale. While he is a splendid teacher, an inspiring athletic coach, a distinguished orator and leader of his fellows in many fields, little was said in your account of his intellectual side...
WOMAN ALIVE-Susan Ertz-Appleton-Century ($2). Recommended particularly for women pacifists, this sketch of the world in 1985 is a bitter indictment of male stupidity. Author Ertz foresees a civilization which has mastered the art of living but still resorts to war. Following the use of a new type of poison gas in a short but destructive international conflict, all females but one die of a mysterious disease, leaving the men in wild despair. The accidental survivor becomes queen of England and hope of the world...
...Bontemps can sketch convincing characters, to use an overworked expression. His negroes are authentic, and so are his "planter" aristocrats. Ben, the loyal old slave, who betrays the insurgents; Melody, the mulatto mistress of the white rascals; Juba, the slave girl who is in love with the hero; Mr. Moseley Sheppard, Ben's master; Pharaoh, the other traitor--all these characters remain fixed in the memory some time after one has finished reading the book. Gabriel, the hero, who had pondered on the exploits of Toussainat L'Ouverture, the Haitian patriot, is not so forceful as a better novelist would...