Word: cay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Actor WTilliam Faversham; Charles John Vincent Murphy, a veteran of the 1934 Byrd Antarctic expedition and an editor of FORTUNE and David Scherman, LIFE photographer who photographically pioneered U.S. bases in the Caribbean and scooped the world with views of Betty Carstairs' one-woman realm on Whale Cay, Bahamas...
Averaging about 60 miles a day, the Presidential yacht Potomac, escorted by the destroyer U.S.S. Benson, slid away from the ship lanes, around Great Isaac Island, Great Stirrup Cay, Mangrove Cay and Grand Bahama, little paradises of white beaches, tropical palms and turquoise water. Adviser Hopkins landed a 4-foot, 25-lb. kingfish; Secretary Stephen T. Early hooked an 80-lb. shark...
...Stewart. Biggest leading man in Hollywood (6 ft. 4 in., 212 lb.), he is taller than Joel McCrea or Gary Cooper, an inch taller than Fred MacMurray. Hayden's smooth job of acting in Virginia made him a star. His next picture, with Dorothy Lamour, will be Dildo Cay. Scene: a desolate island in the West Indies...
...DILDO CAY-Nelson Hayes-Houghton Miff I in ($2.50). West Indies novel, by a 36-year-old, French-born, U. S.-educated Connecticut businessman. Laid on a tiny windswept island (composite of Turks & Caicos), the story twists around the romance between the scion of a hardbitten, salt-making family and a disillusioned blonde who arrives from Bermuda to keep books. Hemingwaywardness bristles on the story like barnacles. But it has one claim to originality: Author Hayes's ingenuity in getting Adrian and Carol alone together on the island. Adrian's father drowns; his mother dies of neurosis...