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Regarding the picture entitled "Marines in Kilts" (TIME, May 10), your informant neglected to make a distinction between the two native military organizations in American Samoa. The natives in the picture are "Samoan Marines," not "Fitas." The Fita-Fita Guard and Band is a part of the U.S. Navy and was organized at the naval station in 1904. . . . The First Samoan Battalion, Marine Corps Reserve, as the name implies, is a part of the Marine Corps and was organized in the summer...
Incidentally, you might also have told your readers that "fitafita" is the Samoan word for soldier, and "lavalava," besides being the native word for the skirt, means clothing in Samoan...
...finding WAAC life dull, she had posed as a stranded showgirl and landed a job in the Casino's chorus. Four days later she had been upped to "Samoan Love Dancer" (the drummer beat a tomtom while she wiggled in a lei) and stripteaser (blue lights followed her around the stage as she teased off a gown borrowed from Mrs. DeCenzie). By Nov. 28 WAAC authorities had discovered where she was and quietly hauled her back to Fort Des Moines. Last week the news leaked and reporters persuaded the Fort's genial commandant, Colonel John A. Hoag...
Every big distributor in pictures turned down Nanook of the North-it had no love interest, no box-office names-until Trader Revillon talked Pathe into releasing it. A smash hit, Nanook was the end of Flaherty's career as an explorer. He went to the remote Samoan island of Savaii to produce Moana, to a rugged island off the coast of Ireland to make Man of Aran, to the native state of Mysore, India to film Elephant...
...written in hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness. . . ." Yet always his work grew better, for mental activity and creative power often increase with the disease. Stevenson's travels through Provence, U. S. mountains, the South Seas to his Samoan grave suggest not only a search for healthful air but the consumptive's itch for vagabondage...