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Returned to Hollywood last week from a South Sea cruise on the steamer Monterey, slim, honey blonde Joan Fontaine told how she had seen, without knowing it, an appropriately serene "revolution" on the languorous French island of Tahiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAHITI: Symbol in the Surf | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

Married. Charles Bernard Nordhoff, 54, co-author (with James Norman Hall) of Mutiny on the Bounty; and Laura Whiley, 30; each for the second time; in Reno. He was divorced from a little brown woman in Tahiti in 1936; she in Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 23, 1941 | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...master of the schooner Chiva Captain Hayden traded through the West Indies. He took the 96-ft. brigantine Florence C. Robinson out to Tahiti. Two years ago, with a partner, he bought the schooner Aldebaran, built for Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (as the yacht Meteor III) before World War I. Hayden's idea was to start a passenger service between Hawaii and Tahiti. On his way to Boston to outfit her, Aldebaran ran into a gale off Cape Hatteras, crept into Charleston, S. C. a virtual wreck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...German source cut off, Tahiti began buying tattooing machines from a man in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1940, The First Year of War Economy | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...Tiny Tahiti in the South Pacific repudiated Vichy. From Madagascar off the east coast of Africa came reports of rebellion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Waiting | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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