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Married. Charles Haskell Revson, 57, chairman and chief stockholder of RevIon, Inc., purveyor of cosmetics with those wild, wild names (Pinkissimo, Pango Peach, Mocha Pocha); and Lynn Sheresky, 32, Manhattan divorcee; he for the third time; in Windsor, Conn...
Next day the Clipper again buzzed southwest. This time Capt. Musick chose to fly at 8,000 ft., crossed the Equator and swept down after ten hours in the air to the "South Pacific's finest harbor," the boot-shaped bay of Pago-Pago (pronounced pango-pango) on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa. Some 1,600 miles from Kingman, American Samoa is a cluster of six islands, inhabited by 300 whites and 10,000 Polynesians who used to eat each other. Tutuila is the largest island, 16 miles long, crowned with the lush, 2,000-ft. peak...
...Anglo-German treaty of 1900. And in 1925 the U. S. annexed tiny Swain's Island. Total U. S. Samoa comprises 60 sq. mi., 8,763 population. It is valuable for a rich output of copra, also for Tutuila's beautiful harbor Pago Pago (pronounced "pango-pango"), good naval station...
...truth discovered by the Advertiser after all, means little. Though it is true that Pango-Pango is an odd name, the value of the truth is not over powerful. In fact there are many more valuable axioms--for instance the well remembered one concerning the necessity for leisure in a civilization before the advent of culture. The Boston journal, however, has not discovered that. Journalists usually don't. Leisure to them is incidental--like editorials on Harvard...
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