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Chief medical officer of the Cook Islands which stretch 1,000 miles across the Pacific from Tahiti to New Zealand, Dr. Thomas R. A. Davis will make the voyage in a 40 foot ketch accompanied by his wife two young sons, and a crew member...
...Texas Sportsman Alfred C. Glassell Jr., the world's record for game fish on rod & reel, a 1,025-lb. black marlin boated on 39-thread line, off Cabo Blanco, Peru. (In 1930, near Tahiti, Zane Grey caught a giant striped marlin that weighed 1,040 lbs., but the record was disqualified because sharks had bitten off a chunk-about 300 lbs.-of the tail...
Died. Maria Montez (christened Maria de Santo Silas), 31, whose burning eyes, heaving bosom and tawny allure energized a long series of sex-and-geography pictures (Gipsy Wildcat, South of Tahiti, Cobra Woman); in her reducing bath (probably of a heart attack brought on by the scalding water); in Paris, where she lived with her second husband, French Actor Jean-Pierre Aumont...
Died. James Norman Hall, 64, author, best known for his collaborations with Charles Nordhoff on romantic adventure stories of the South Seas (Mutiny on the Bounty, Botany Bay, The Hurricane); of a heart attack; in Papeete, Tahiti. After flying in World War I's famed Lafayette Escadrille, Hall and his partner traveled to the South Seas to write, settled permanently on Tahiti, where Hall felt that he had "a grandstand seat to view the workings of a mad machine...
...with an If. One day in Rabaul, Author Michener talked over with his wife the places they had seen, the people they had met. Their conclusions: "We would be willing to live on almost any Polynesian island. We'd think ourselves lucky to be able to live on Tahiti or Rarotonga. We could enjoy a year or two on even the loneliest atolls. The inconveniences would be offset by the joyous life-patterns of the people who would share them with...