Word: island
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of Cat Island [TIME, Nov. 7] is told in full by Frederick O'Brien in his book Atolls of the Sun (Century Co.; 1922) . . . I don't wonder that it could not be found on maps, because Cat Island is not its name. Its real name is Tetiaroa, and it lies about 30 miles north of Tahiti...
...Williams had previously cased Tetiaroa and found it covered with thousands of coconut palms, from which he could realize a tidy profit in copra . . . and in a short time he had the island producing . . . But he quickly found that rats on Tetiaroa were determined to thwart this commercial enterprise . . . He advertised in Papeete for cats . . . and soon streams of Tahitian lads were trotting to his office and home with yowling cats in bags, crates and nets...
...wealth rose up only a few blocks to the south, but to the poor of Italian Harlem, they were as remote and incredible as the palaces of India. Frank Costello escaped to live in them by a process as devious and dangerous as an escape from Devil's Island. He became a rumrunner, a slot-machine king, a gambler and intimate of killers, a political fixer-and a man of riches and influence...
...maneuvering Spitfires were not the only show of strength which Great Britain had staged to impress China's Communists, whose armies had swept up to Hong Kong's borders. Across the harbor from Hong Kong island, on the flinty, weatherworn mountain of South China's Kowloon peninsula (which the British rule under a 99-year lease), men of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and the King's Own Scottish Borderers were training to the peak of battle efficiency. Said a brisk regimental commander: "We know our enemy, and we are ready...
Horseback & Hospital. When a star combines high sex appeal with low resistance to the demands of press-agents, she works all the harder. For The Girl from Jones Beach, Virginia Mayo put in appearances at ten towns on Long Island's south shore, with receptions by civic dignitaries at every stop. For the opening of Colorado Territory in Denver, she had to ride horseback to the theater through a heavy downpour. ("How," pleaded Virginia, "do you put the top up on a horse?") On the way to Denver, press-agents stopped her train so that she could leave...