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...armchair explorers. In the name of geography he exposed the female breast, printed a 1903 study of two tawny Tagbanua belles eclipsed only to the waist by a stand of Philippine rice. Such displays became Geographic fixtures. He expanded geographical boundaries to embrace first-person travelogues from Tahiti, Siberia and the Yukon, kite construction (they were Bell's kites), the sex life of the aborigines, and skin tattoos. In 1905 he came up to a deadline with an eleven-page hole, filled all eleven pages with pictures of Tibet-the first extensive use of photographs by any magazine...
...Trouble in Tahiti," a complete oneact opera by Leonard Bernstein '39, will be presented next year as part of a two hour show directed by Newt Wayland '62. Wayland's "Twen Waylin Band" will present some of Stan Kenton's compositions, in addition to providing music for the opera...
...wrote a French stockbroker named Paul Gauguin, who left his wife and secure career and went in search of the very place of love. He found it with the Maoris of Tahiti, and many of his pictures, such as the woodcut opposite, attest the artistic success of his quest. But it was a therapeutic disaster to himself; he died in the islands, of syphilis, malnutrition and a failing heart. Last week some 200 of his works, including 75 of his prints, went on show at the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition, which will move to Manhattan's Metropolitan...
...through ads, he had gone about his preparations. Though his ex-wife got a warrant for his arrest two weeks ago, Hayden and his four children had already disappeared. Last week a friend got a letter: Hayden, his kids and his crew were aboard The Wanderer, en route to Tahiti. "It's time to go," wrote Hayden...