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Last week, along with a months-high accumulation of mailbags, assorted comforts, phonograph records, clothing, etc. tagged for Pitcairn, the essential works of VR6AY, sent back last spring for repairs, lay in Panama, still waiting for a British merchantman which war orders sent elsewhere. Chances were, according to Pitcairn's best-informed friends and radio acquaintances, that the islanders were as much in the dark about this war as they were about the last. Worse yet, they were probably in extreme need of foodstuffs, medicine, other necessities, which in recent years they have got largely from tourist ships...
...Rugged Pitcairn Island, the seagirt Pacific refuge of H. M. S. Bounty's, storied mutineers, heard nothing of Britain's last war until months after the outbreak. Word of it was finally brought to Bounty Bay by the crew of a Tahitian tramp. That was before a best-selling trilogy and a four-star movie made Pitcairn Island the most publicized hideout on the seven seas, and prompted a well-meaning, sympathetic U. S. to enrich the 200-odd hybrid islanders with all sorts of civilized niceties, including a powerful amateur short-wave radio station, VR6AY...
...Higgins, Kenneth Day Johanson, Eugene Parr Johnson, Paul Sigurd Johrde, Walter Scott Long, Jr., Donald Frank McDonald, Thomas Herbert Malim, David Martin, Robert Glenn Martin, Arthur Taylor von Mehren, Robert Earl Middleton, Frank Gustavus Miller, Maynard Malcolm Miller, Duane Keith Ocheltree, Harold Clarence Passer, Dick S. Payne, Donald MacKonzie Pitcairn, Ralph Hubert Potter, James Allan Rafferty, Thomas Ben Ragland, Jr., Andrew Eliot Rice, Charles Cost Royer. Richard Honderson Russell...
...Week, edited by a tall, personable Oxonian, Claude Cockburn (pronounced koburn), who quit as U. S. correspondent for the London Times because he could not stomach its extreme Rightist policy. Editor Cockburn holds down a regular job with the Daily Worker (under the name of Frank Pitcairn), grinds out all the final copy for The Week in one all-night session, fortified by draughts of red wine. He has 40 regular correspondents, makes frequent , trips to European storm centres, has printed some accurate inside stories of the doings of the Cliveden Set. Many times sued for libel, Editor Cockburn...
Just before Christmas the U. S. Maritime Commission freighter City of Dalhart hove to off Pitcairn. Out rowed a Pitcairner with two gift parcels, one for Mrs. Hall, the other for DeGhett. On the way home the City of Delhart's Radio Operator Scruggs kept trying at odd times to raise Mrs. Hall or DeGhett. Last week as the ship lay in Hoboken, Scruggs caught De Ghett's ear. Pitcairn had told DeGhetl about the gifts. Here they were at last Scruggs advised him to hurry over and get "the stuff." "We're sailing tomorrow," he said...