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...Over the weekend, McCann studied the Whitman transcript and turned out a second draft, or "Revise No. 1," which he sent off to the President at Denver. McCann then thankfully took off with his wife for a seven-day vacation on the sunny island of Tobago "to wash the whole thing out of my mind." As it turned out, he had done only about two-thirds...
Last week Margaret captivated Trinidad and was herself captivated by its charms. She even sent a lady-in-waiting to buy a stack of calypso records. In Tobago, boarding the royal yacht Britannia for the cruise to Grenada and British points north, Margaret could scarcely fail to see that the life of a princess can be quite a life indeed-comfortable, consequential, exciting and even...
Boundless wealth, he kept assuring Mette (who resolutely sat tight in Denmark), was just around the corner-in Tobago, for instance, where they would "have to do nothing but dig up gold with a spade and shovel." Gauguin actually got as far as Panama on their Tobago road, but the only gold he managed to dig up was the navvy's pay Gauguin got for working on the new canal. From there he pushed on to Martinique: "Paradise, after Panama," he wrote. And the women! "Pretty, my goodness! . . . They do their best to enslave me." Gauguin finally settled down...
...word is a mere word." Words, says he, become the "mirror of society and the index of civilization." * Sometimes a word travels as far as history itself. Sherry was "the wine of Jerez," cambric the "linen made at Cambrai," and tobacco the product of the West Indian island of Tobago...
Known for extensive marine research in Jamaica, Tobago, Bermuda, the Galapagos Islands, and Australia, Clark was the recent recipient of the Clarke Memorial Medal for 1946, described as one of Australia's leading scientific honors, for his zoological research in that country...