Word: tusitala
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...many of the 115,000 Samoans who live on the main island of Upolu, Robert Louis Stevenson is still very much alive. From his office on the sixth floor of the Central Bank of Samoa building, Deputy Prime Minister Misa Telefoni points out the window to Tusitala's mountain tomb: "See, it's up under those trees - right on top. That's an indication of how much the Samoans cared for him, because they had to hack the road up there and carry his heavy coffin." Telefoni's memory of Tusitala, or "Writer of Tales," as he was known locally...
...myth of Tusitala has also undergone a workout. But you'd expect nothing less from the story of how one of the world's tallest tale-tellers came to an island of natural yarn-spinners (fagogo is the Samoan word for their rich and digressive oral tradition). Setting out from San Francisco in 1888 with wife Fanny, 11 years his senior, Stevenson sought both material for his writing and warm weather for his ailing lungs. After stops along the way, Stevenson began to pine for "an island with a profile," and found it in the natural peaks and waterfalls...
...will rate a salute from every man in the school (". . . and not with a sneer on his face, either"). Teachers will be six commissioned officers and 30 petty officers from the Coast Guard cutter service. For training ships the men will have two famous windjammers-the square-rigged Tusitala, once the hobby of retired Steelman James A. Farrell, and the Joseph Conrad, in which Author Alan Villiers used to sail all over the world-and the Coast Guard patrol boat Faunce. Later, the freighter Edgemoor, now being reconditioned, will be added to the school equipment. Training courses as planned will...
...labor law for all maritime labor, including longshoremen, on the lines of the Railway Labor Act with a mediation board. He also recommends a Government training school for seamen to be run by the Coast Guard. James A. Farrell, onetime president of U. S. Steel Corp., has offered his Tusitala, a full-rigged ship, as a training ship...
Always fascinated by the sea, he induced the Steel company to build its own fleet. He himself owns & operates the Tusitala (Samoan for Tale Bearer), one of the last clipper ships under the U. S. flag...