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...they search their memories hard, can still remember when Elizabeth Taylor appeared opposite Roddy McDowall in Lassie Come Home, was seen around Hollywood playing with rabbits and turtles, and wrote a story about a pet chipmunk entitled Nibbles and Me. Ah, youth! Today every movie fan from Pomona to Pago Pago knows that when Elizabeth Taylor nibbles, it isn't chipmunks. And so when Liz got involved with a laddie who wouldn't come home and a lassie who wouldn't stand for it, Hollywood was in the midst of one of those major, publicity-churning crises...
Habitues of Sunday comic supplements are well aware of Pogo's plight. They know that for week atfer week he has had to listen to a story about Hadle & Gristle, furry godmommas, alligator-shaped princesses and whatnot. They also know that Pago tried to escape yesterday--pleading an appointment in Lapland but that he could not because his interlocutor his shirt to the seat...
...deadline, Wallace may toss out a third of it and put in something else. He makes the final decisions, when he is at Chappaqua. But he is often away: he and Lila may pick up suddenly and go off on a three months' trip to Honolulu or Pago Pago, and no one will hear from him until he walks back into the office...
...will be headquartered in Pago Pago, boss the Fita Fita (a local police unit) and enjoy the Siva Siva (a native dance...
Those improvised island bases, planned by burly Rear Admiral Ben Moreell and his Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks, and built by Seabees, were among the wonders of the war. Never-never towns like Pago Pago were transformed. Nouméa became a little Pearl Harbor, with shipping crowding its lovely harbor, sailors over running its narrow streets, installations mushrooming on its mountains...