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Died. Charles Bernard Nordhoff, 60, coauthor, with James Norman Hall,* 59, of Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and other South Seas adventure novels; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Nordhoff & Hall met a few weeks after World War I, formed a writing partnership, later moved to Tahiti-where Nordhoff married a native, by whom he had six children before their divorce...
James Norman Hall, Tahiti-dwelling author (with Charles Nordhoff) of the Bounty series, discomfited many a book critic with a wicked confession: Fern Gravel, a child poetess whose volume, Oh, Millersville!, made a merry little noise in literary circles six years ago, existed only in Hall's brain. Deadpanned Hall in the Atlantic: Fern had come to him in a dream, and dictated such deathless verse...
...HIGH BARBAREE - Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall - Little, Brown ($2). The magic setting of this high romance, in the tradition of James Hilton's Lost Horizon, is a Polynesian Shangrila. It is plainly designed as a refuge for readers who have had enough of wartime realism. Two Navy flyers are floating on the Pacific in a flak-shattered PBY. One of them passes the tedious, hopeless days talking of the lush, tiny island that he dreamed of as a boy. The fish they finally catch must have been poisonous, because Gene, the navigator, dies that night. But Pilot Brooke...
...CHARLES NORDHOFF Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Nordhoff always gets every edition of Jane's Fighting Ships. Says he: "For years my great love has been the U.S. Navy. I know more about it than most nonprofessionals. I know every ship. Nothing in my life has ever hurt me as much as what happened at Pearl Harbor. What a horrible thing those in charge did. They owe for the lives of every man killed there. Maybe the Japanese have something in this hara-kiri business...