Word: polynesian
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...surprised; for in addition to giving these masterpieces their proud place ("the supreme discovery," says Stefansson, ". . . is the finding of a continent"), Stefansson has included such little-known explorations as those of the Chinese on the fringes of North America in the 5th Century A.D. and the roamings of Polynesian boatmen...
...HIGH BARBAREE - Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall - Little, Brown ($2). The magic setting of this high romance, in the tradition of James Hilton's Lost Horizon, is a Polynesian Shangrila. It is plainly designed as a refuge for readers who have had enough of wartime realism. Two Navy flyers are floating on the Pacific in a flak-shattered PBY. One of them passes the tedious, hopeless days talking of the lush, tiny island that he dreamed of as a boy. The fish they finally catch must have been poisonous, because Gene, the navigator, dies that night. But Pilot Brooke...
Forgetting to quit, once he had been whipped to the front, was a lazy-looking 12-to-1 shot called Polynesian. He was even pulling away at the end of his upset $66,170 race. Hoop Jr., three times second in three previous races over the Baltimore track, finished second and lame- 0 and 1 half lengths back. Far off last year's championship form (and his workout), Pavot ran an unexciting fifth, helped to make the feverish search for a three-year-old champion even harder...
Descendants of the ancient Ainus,* now mixed with Japanese, Chinese and Polynesian strains, the 600,000 people of the Ryukyu Islands had been treated as second-class citizens by the Japanese, and have little reason to love their rulers. But they have also been taught that Americans were barbarians who would violate and torture their women, torture and kill their men. And then the Americans came...
...Apamama Island in the Gilberts Correspondent "Pepper" Martin found dusky Agnes Murdoch and her nieces reading TIME, learned with some surprise that Agnes reads TIME cover-to-cover each week-see cut. (Half-Polynesian, half-English Mrs. Murdoch studied for seven years at the Sisters of Mercy convent in San Francisco-is the mother of four sons, one of them Chief of Apamama...