Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Mackinac Island's white pine, white-painted Grand Hotel waddled fat little Harrison Spangler, all set to rig up the Republican Party for its biggest blunder in a decade. As G.O.P. National Chairman, he had arranged matters with the exact and elaborate ritual of a Jap nobleman about to commit harakiri...
...Life on an island in the South Pacific is very monotonous," he said, "broken only by work and the war on ants, lizards, flies and malaria. It was heaven to return...
Back to Seattle's water front last week came the story of another Pacific island paradise* known to a few fortunate U.S. fighting men. This heavenly spot is Aitutaki, one of the Cook Islands, northeast of New Zealand and about 700 miles from Tahiti. It is four miles long by one and a half miles wide and has all standard equipment, including a magnificent lagoon, snow white sand, sapphire blue water, emerald green foliage, lush fruit trees, beautiful and amiable women...
...teller of the tale of Aitutaki was Archie Campbell, onetime hard-boiled Seattle Post Intelligencer newsman, now second engineer in a Liberty ship. A world-traveled cynic, Campbell had always scoffed at South Sea legends. But now he testifies: New Zealand owns the island, but has governed it by leaving it alone. The normal population includes 2,000 Polynesians-strong, handsome men & women. Aitutaki has no commercial value and in peacetime is almost never seen by white men; now it has a holding force of blissfully happy U.S. troops. Venereal disease is unknown among the natives; the major commanding...
...funny, exasperating, infantile things she does in the course of growing into her marriage. For an hour or so, Claudia wags elbows, knees and tongue in a subadolescent manner that would send any husband less tenderly crucified than Robert Young on a screaming sprint for a psychiatrist, a desert island, or an ax. She suggests that her husband, if he is more man than mouse, will simply refuse to pay his income tax. She sells his beloved house to a high-pitched Russian soprano (oldtime Cinemantrap Olga Baclanova in a miscast comeback). Whenever her husband's long suffering slips...