Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marriage at St. John's Episcopal Church, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. They will maintain residences in Washington, D. C., New York, Spokane...
...tierra Island, 400 miles off the coast of Chile, one Alexander Selkirk was abandoned by his shipmates of the sailing ship Cinque Ports after quarreling with the captain, Thomas Stradling. Four years and four months later he was rescued, told his tale in London, and was fictionized for posterity as "Robinson Crusoe"* by Daniel Defoe. Last week Dictator Premier Carlos Ibanez of Chile announced that the Chilean "Reds" recently arrested by his agents (TIME, March 7) would be exiled on Mas-a-fuera Island, 100 miles west of "Robinson Crusoe's Island," supplied with tools and implements, with livestock...
CHILDREN OF THE MORNING- W. L. George-Putnam ($2). What became of 59 children on a desert island...
Last week his second hop was to be across the South Atlantic, from Bolama, Portuguese Guinea, to Natal, Brazil (1,715 miles), not far out, he turned back landed on the island of Bissagos...
CHILDREN OF THE MORNING- W. L. George-Putnam ($2). Originally romantic, the Crusoe theme has passed through many literary phases and now emerges as a peg for behaviorist psychology. Summoning an earthquake and hurricane, Author George casts 59 children upon a scientifically desert island near Nicaragua, without a single adult to hamper their reversion to the primitive. They are of both sexes and many nations. All are between five and eight, an age which, for the sake of argument, is thought of as sufficiently old to fend for itself amidst tropical abundance yet too young for sex-consciousness or lasting...