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...Brown is TIME'S only subscriber on Raiatea, a high green island just 120 miles 'northwest of Tahiti, and ever since Pearl Harbor he has been getting anywhere from 12 to 16 issues of our Overseas Edition the same day-by steamer from San Francisco to Tahiti, by little inter-island schooner from Tahiti to Raiatea. And when the mail comes...
Back to Seattle's water front last week came the story of another Pacific island paradise* known to a few fortunate U.S. fighting men. This heavenly spot is Aitutaki, one of the Cook Islands, northeast of New Zealand and about 700 miles from Tahiti. It is four miles long by one and a half miles wide and has all standard equipment, including a magnificent lagoon, snow white sand, sapphire blue water, emerald green foliage, lush fruit trees, beautiful and amiable women...
...George Sanders) reaches his prime as an overdomesticated stockbroker. Like Gauguin, he abruptly quits all that for Paris, semistarvation and oil painting. He takes over the studio and the wife (Doris Dudley) of a piteous fellow painter (Steve Geray). Later he leaves the wife to suicide, and heads for Tahiti where he marries a sleek young native with a Mona Grable smile (Elena Verdugo), slaps out masterpieces by the gross, dies (lingeringly) of leprosy...
Louis Jouvet and Victor Francen are featured in the picture. Francen, who played the part of the doctor in the "Tuttles of Tahiti," will probably be familiar to many moviegoers...
...course Tahiti is for De Gaulle...