Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returned to Hollywood last week from a South Sea cruise on the steamer Monterey, slim, honey blonde Joan Fontaine told how she had seen, without knowing it, an appropriately serene "revolution" on the languorous French island of Tahiti...
When the Monterey docked at Samoa en route to Tahiti, she said, a middle-aged English-looking Frenchman named General Richard Edmond Maurice Edouard Brunot came aboard with Mme. Brunot and the General's aide, one Captain Frataux. On the trip to Tahiti, Joan Fontaine found that the Captain was as gallant as French officers are supposed to be, while the Brunots were extremely retiring. The General said nothing of his purposes and few of the Monterey's passengers so much as knew his rank...
Married. Charles Bernard Nordhoff, 54, co-author (with James Norman Hall) of Mutiny on the Bounty; and Laura Whiley, 30; each for the second time; in Reno. He was divorced from a little brown woman in Tahiti in 1936; she in Newport...
...master of the schooner Chiva Captain Hayden traded through the West Indies. He took the 96-ft. brigantine Florence C. Robinson out to Tahiti. Two years ago, with a partner, he bought the schooner Aldebaran, built for Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (as the yacht Meteor III) before World War I. Hayden's idea was to start a passenger service between Hawaii and Tahiti. On his way to Boston to outfit her, Aldebaran ran into a gale off Cape Hatteras, crept into Charleston, S. C. a virtual wreck...
...German source cut off, Tahiti began buying tattooing machines from a man in Los Angeles...