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Died. Theophilus Albert Marryshow, 71, a principal figure in the establishment of The West Indies confederation, Senator in the first West Indian legislature, Grenada-born journalist who in 1915 founded the West Indian; following a stroke; in St. George's, Grenada...
...Windward Islands (pop. 321,600) produce bay rum on St. Lucia, nutmeg on Grenada (pronounced Gre-nay-da), arrowroot for babies' cookies on St. Vincent, and cocoa on Dominica (pronounced Dom-i-nee-ka,). St. Lucia houses a U.S. missile-tracking station for Cape Canaveral's downrange...
...every tourist folder says, the Caribbean is a land of contrasts. Froude can write of standing on the waterfront at Kingston in Grenada: "The off-shore night breeze had not yet risen. The harbor was as smooth as a looking-glass and the stars shone double in the sky and on the water. The silence was only broken by the whistle of the lizards or the cry of some far-off marsh frog. The air was warmer than we ever feel in the depth of an English summer, yet pure and delicious and charged with the perfume of a thousand...
...four Windward Islands (Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada), which are also small, beautiful and backward...
Last week Margaret captivated Trinidad and was herself captivated by its charms. She even sent a lady-in-waiting to buy a stack of calypso records. In Tobago, boarding the royal yacht Britannia for the cruise to Grenada and British points north, Margaret could scarcely fail to see that the life of a princess can be quite a life indeed-comfortable, consequential, exciting and even...