Word: tahiti
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...just received from my partner, James Norman Hall, a bit of news that may be of interest to you. Hall is in Tahiti, and he wrote...
...Tuttles of Tahiti (RKO Radio) are an exceptionally lazy family. Trying to get them to work is like trying to interest a six-day bicycle racer in a five-day week. Their laziness is encouraged by the man from whom they inherited it: their improvident, prolific, lovable father Jonas (Charles Laughton), South Seas remnant of the Massachusetts Tuttles...
...dawns again for the Tuttles when they salvage a cargo vessel, loaded with gasoline and other stores, abandoned by its crew in a hurricane. With their 400,000 francs prize money, they open a joint checking account, and the wackiest spending spree Tahiti ever...
...Vanderbilt, who largely financed the Lafayette Flying Corps, commissioned them to write its official history. Then Harper's offered Hall a contract to visit the South Seas and write travel stories. Nordhoff wangled "some sort of contract" out of the Atlantic. They set off for Australia, touched at Tahiti, made their home there...
Hall returned to Tahiti last May, with his wife and daughter. Nordhoff is living with his young, pretty second wife (he and his native wife are divorced) and three very beautiful daughters on the old Hope Ranch near Santa Barbara...