Word: tristan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tristan da Cunha. 2. The Galapagos Islands. 3. The Falkland Islands. 4. The Straits of Magellan. 5. Tierra del Fuego...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, Stravinsky's Concerto for Strings, selections from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde; Leopold Stokowski conducting...
...that are still far out at sea. This is not important in the North Atlantic, whose weather is reported by ships and airplanes almost from minute to minute. But between South Africa and South America, there are few ships, and only one small weather station, on the island of Tristan da Cunha. Since most storms in the area strike from the west, a wave recorder on the African coast might give a day or two of warning before a storm arrives. Dr. Deacon also believes that a competent oceanographer might make a good living by setting up a wave recorder...
...Tristanites were content to leave Cape Town, but one thought disturbed them. The folks on Tristan would never believe their stories. They struggled for words as they transcribed messages to be sent to their families, wept as the record was played back to them. Tall, dark-haired Arthur Reppeto had best told the thoughts of all six: "I never think things in Cape Town is as they is.... The streets, there's cement in 'em. Place is luvverly. And now closing with luv to arl on the Hisland...
...Descendant of a William Glass whose family stayed behind on Tristan in 1817, when Britain, convinced that Bonapartists could not use the island as a base for rescuing Napoleon from St. Helena, withdrew the small wartime garrison. Later, three sailors who had served with Nelson joined the Glasses. To Tristan, too, came a few dark-skinned women from St. Helena. Today, the much intermarried but sturdy Tristanites have only seven surnames among them: Glass, Swain, Green, Reppeto, Lavarello, Rogers and Hagan...