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Loosely based on James Michener's 1951 collection of stories, it has just the right setting - a South Sea island that out-Bali-Ha'is Bali Ha'i - plus the right blend of serious conflict and sarongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...Noble Race. In such festivities, the little (pop. 10,000) Mexican town of Tehuantepec calls to mind the happy island of Bali Ha'i in James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific; actually, Tehuantepec is on an isthmus only 1,262 miles down the Pan American Highway from the U.S.A. Set in a thorny and desolate countryside, the town, watered by the Tehuantepec River, is a lush oasis, verdant with coconut palms and mango trees. But Tehuantepec's great traditional allure comes mostly from the beauty of its women, the famed Tehuanas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Bali Ha'i-By-the-River | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...getting well (Ha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with a Genius | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...along the way (Ha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with a Genius | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Last week, at the end of the line-in the mining town of Kalgoorlie on the very edge of the great Australian desert-detectives at last caught up with Norman Morton-Stewart. He was down to his last eleven shillings elghtpence ha'penny. Charged with vagrancy and clapped into a tin-roofed jail that crawled with cockroaches, he put in a collect call to England. "Darling!" cooed his faithful Lady Barbara, "don't worry about anything! When are you coming home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Same Old Charmer | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

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