Word: fijis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOHAMMED TORAH Nadi, Fiji...
Songs for a Smoke-Filled Room (Elsa Lanchester; Hifirecords LP). A fey, offbeat collection of songs both sprightly and shivery by the apricot-haired English comedienne, with tongue-in-jowl introductions by husband Charles Laughton. The selections range from Fiji Fanny, a raucous burlesque of the songs the trade calls "grass-skirt numbers," to a haunted, spine-crawling ditty titled If You Peek in My Gazebo, which tells the tale of a mad New England spinster who sits each evening in a summerhouse on the hill secretly watching the lusty young village bucks stroll...
...Australian airman, navigator on the 1931 globe-girdling, record-setting (8 days, 15 hrs., 51 mins.) flight of the Winnie Mae, which brought international fame to him and to one-eyed Pilot Wiley Post (who crashed and died with Will Rogers in 1935); of a heart attack; in Suva, Fiji Islands. Gatty developed, tested and taught a stargazing navigational system that guided (via his The Raft Book) many wartime downed flyers to safety. In recent years he bought a small island in the Fiji group, founded (1951) and operated the successful three-plane Fiji Airways, became a member...
...Rico is better known among development-minded people abroad than it is among Americans. For this week's festivities, 323 foreign students and technicians are on hand, the latest of more than 3,000 who have come in the last five years from such distant places as the Fiji Islands, Pakistan, Iceland, Israel, Ethiopia and Nepal...
...species were collected on the expedition, including 100 unknown before. In addition to the discovery of the Ceylon ant, the expedition fulfilled two major purposes; expanding the insect holdings of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and collecting and studying data on the distribution and behavior of ants from Fiji to Australia...