Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Paul Gauguin, seeking escape from the rigors of civilization, arrived in Tahiti in 1891, he fell in love with the island and its people. One Tahitian in particular intrigued Gauguin: a golden-skinned girl of 13 named Tehura. Gauguin, who had left a lawful wife and five children in Europe, settled down with Tehura to a South Pacific existence: "Happiness inhabited my home. Each morning it rose radiant with the sun; the golden hue of Tehura's face filled the house with joy and light . . . and [she] gave herself to me ever more loving and docile...
Early last year a French painter who was working in Tahiti noted the fascination with which native children crowded around his easel. He distributed paper and crayons to the children, and his example was later followed by the local French administration...
...Davis scientific achievement and adventure were secondary; the primary purpose of the trip was to get to Harvard--the cheapest way possible. Ever since he became a doctor, Davis has wanted to study at Harvard. His chance came when, at a medical meeting at Tahiti Island, Davis met Harold C. Coolidge '27, of the School of Public Health...
...Opera (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Television premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti...
...trip originated with a suggestion by Harold J. Coolidge '27, associate in Mammalogy, that Davis, a surgeon and Chief Public Health Officer in the Cook Islands, study at the School of Public Health, during a medical conference at Tahiti...