Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bernard Nordhoff, 60, coauthor, with James Norman Hall,* 59, of Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and other South Seas adventure novels; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Nordhoff & Hall met a few weeks after World War I, formed a writing partnership, later moved to Tahiti-where Nordhoff married a native, by whom he had six children before their divorce...
...California, preparing to return to Tahiti, where he will work on a movie about South Seas life & love...
...Easter Island's only visitors were chance whalers, occasional foreign warships, and archeologists trying to solve the mystery of the giant statues. One & all, the visitors liked the island's moderate climate and superb trade winds, but for vacations or all year preferred the lusher surroundings of Tahiti (2,800 miles away...
James Norman Hall, Tahiti-dwelling author (with Charles Nordhoff) of the Bounty series, discomfited many a book critic with a wicked confession: Fern Gravel, a child poetess whose volume, Oh, Millersville!, made a merry little noise in literary circles six years ago, existed only in Hall's brain. Deadpanned Hall in the Atlantic: Fern had come to him in a dream, and dictated such deathless verse...
Maurice Dekobra, French novelist, specializing in svelte sex (Bedroom Eyes, The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars), foresaw the atomic destruction of almost everything except Tahiti, made out his will and sat down to await the end in Hollywood. He bequeathed his "17,000 books . . . paintings . . . works of art" to Tahiti, left his typewriter and Pomeranian to the Martians, signed his body over to science for the possible development of "a serum . . . against the seven capital sins...