Word: tahiti
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...happy character in his bland, blue-eyed old surgeon. If its 18th-Century flavor is not distinguished, neither is it strained, and the same goes for Warren Chappell's pen-&-ink illustrations. Now 53, with a son of 14, lean Norman Hall still lives at Papeete, Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff went to be at peace after fighting through the last war. Tahiti being a French possession, their remoteness from the modern world is no longer what it used...
...extraverts as busy as ever in World War II are female French journalistic trained seals. Typical Titaÿna (Elisabeth Sauvy ), self-styled "Sweetheart of Danger" and a Floyd Gibbons in skirts, boasts that she has "covered eight wars" in hottest danger spots, with stopoffs at spots like Tahiti (see cut, p. 25). Last week Danger's Sweetheart was more safely employed reading German newspapers and preparing radio scripts refuting them to be broadcast by Paris Mondial...
JAMES NORMAN HALL Tahiti, French Oceania
...TIME [Nov. 20] you carried an item concerning the voyage of my schooner Liberty to Pitcairn Island and Tahiti...
Without stepping off the twelve acres of the Center a visitor could go to dentist, doctor, chiropodist, osteopath, could have a massage, exercise in a gymnasium, study languages, book passage to Tahiti, get a passport, could dine, drink and dance. Only comfort and convenience not to be found there was a place to sleep...