Word: pitcairners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Featured at the discussion will be a public lecture on Thursday evening by Dr. Harry L. Shapiro '23, on "The Pitcairn Islanders," at the Geographical Institute. Shapiro published a book, "The Heritage of the Bounty," last year, on the results of his trip to the lonely Southern Pacific Island...
...Pitcairn Island group, well known from the novels of Nordhoff and Hall as the refuge of the "Bounty" mutineers, is scientifically remarkable as a classic of inbreeding and racial mixtures...
Headquarters of the association will be at the Hotel Commander, but the meetings will be held at the Faculty Club except for the Pitcairn talk. The Association's Annual Lecture, which will be at the Geographical Institute...
...sold. In the first three days, sales of ten more Cubs were reported at $1,270 each. Similar success attended the rival Taylorcraft. Last week, Horace Keane Co. had a slick white Ace Monoplane with a Ford V8, out to rival Arrow. The Bureau of Air Commerce showed its Pitcairn readable autogiro. It was supposed to drive in through the streets, but Manhattan's police said it would have to get an automobile license. So it rode ignominiously to the Show in a truck...
...building of the Bryn Athyn Swedenborgian Cathedral was started by Raymond Pitcairn as a medieval craft centre. Lawrence Saint worked enthusiastically on its stained glass for eleven years, studied his subject more & more deeply, often wished he could completely approximate 13th Century windows by making his own glass instead of using the "stock" colors of commercial furnaces. Then one day he chanced to see in a yellowed newspaper clipping a photograph of the architect's model for the National Cathedral...