Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apamama Island in the Gilberts Correspondent "Pepper" Martin found dusky Agnes Murdoch and her nieces reading TIME, learned with some surprise that Agnes reads TIME cover-to-cover each week-see cut. (Half-Polynesian, half-English Mrs. Murdoch studied for seven years at the Sisters of Mercy convent in San Francisco-is the mother of four sons, one of them Chief of Apamama...
...spring at the New England A.A.U. meet, he climaxed his schoolboy career by leaping 12 ft., 53/3 in. for a new Exeter Academy vault record. He considers this a bigger thrill than his 12 ft., 6 in. tie for third in the National Junior A.A.U. championships at Randall's island, New York...
Most of action in "The Story of Dr. Wassell" takes place on the Jap besieged island of Java early in 1942. Use of the flashback technique to bring out the history of Dr. Wassell's life serves only to confuse the spectator. In between shots of battles on Java appear sequences showing the deuter's earlier experiences as a minor Louts Pasteur in China...
Died. Bronson Winthrop, 80, Manhattan Old Guardsman, onetime partner of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in the famed Manhattan law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts; in Syosset, Long Island...
...Other Moses titles: Triborough Bridge Authority Chairman, State Council of Parks Chairman, Long Island Park Commission President, New York City Planning Commission member...