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...four-year feud between Philadelphia's Coal and Autogiro Tycoon Raymond Pitcairn and his ousted gardener literally burst into flame last week. The sprawling rubbish dump the gardener has been carefully developing right across from Pitcairn's neatly manicured estate caught fire, and the Bryn Athyn fire department cheerfully let the eyesore burn...
Donald MacK. Pitcairn '43, Portland, Ore.; Gilbert N. Piass '41, Cleveland, O.; Ralph H. Potter, Jr. '43, East Grand Raplds, Mich.; John F. Prudden '42, Fostoria, O.; James A. Rafferty '43, Louisville, Ky.; Donald M. Reynolds '42, Manette, Wash.; Kay T. Rogers '42, Appleton, Wis.; William L. Roney, Jr. '42, Winter Park, Fla.; Charles C. Royer '43, Beliefentalne, O.; Reinhold S. Schumann '41, Dusseldorf, Germany; Carl B. Sellgman, '43, Dinuba, Calif.; Judson T. Shaplin '42, Reading, Pa.; Morris V. Sholanski '43, Philadelphia, Pa.; Wheeler Smith '41, Minneapolis, Minn...
Death Revealed. Richard Edgar Christian, 52, ex-Chief Magistrate of Pitcairn Island (pop. 200) and direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, who founded the island colony in 1790 after leading a mutiny against Captain William Bligh aboard H. M. S. Bounty; on Pitcairn Island, June...
James Norman Hall, who collaborated with Charles Nordhoff on the memorable Bounty books (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn's Island), has struck off a happy character in his bland, blue-eyed old surgeon. If its 18th-Century flavor is not distinguished, neither is it strained, and the same goes for Warren Chappell's pen-&-ink illustrations. Now 53, with a son of 14, lean Norman Hall still lives at Papeete, Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff went to be at peace after fighting through the last war. Tahiti being a French possession, their remoteness from...
...disrupted merchant shipping between New Zealand and South America, the infrequent calls of supply ships had ceased, essentials were running low. The works of Pitcairn's powerful short-wave radio station, VR6AY, had broken down, and parts were in Panama being fixed (TIME, Nov. 20). A completely outfitted relief expedition had been called off because of lack of funds (TIME, Dec.11). The Christians, McCoys and Youngs were isolated and scared...