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VICTOR M. SHAPIRO...
Robert Bertram Lichenstein, Oscar Mendel Lurie, Benjamin Maurice Mark, Branford Price Millar, Erling Charles Olsen, Russell George Olsen, Roy Messer Pearson, Jr., Joseph Henry Phillips, Irving Murray Pinansky, Richard McMahon Powell, David Rome, William Shapiro, Samuel Tredwell Skidmore, Jr., Stanley Stellar, Shigeto Tsuru, Sherwood Larned Washburn, John Burke Wilkinson, Richard Edward Wolf...
Brooks 5, Dunster 2. Reynolds and Shapiro (B) defeated Short and Beffie (D), 6-4, 6-2; Mazer (B) defeated Humstone (E), 6-1, 6-2; Elkin (B) defeated Banner (E), 6-1, 6-0; Greenblatt (B) defeated Cummings (E), 6-4, 6-2; Quinn (D) defeated Homonoff (B), 9-7, 8-6; Josef (D) defeated Skinner...
Last December the tawny, friendly islanders received the longest visit (ten days) from a scientist that any of them could remember. The visitor was Harry Lionel Shapiro, 32-year-old anthropologist of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Shapiro went to Pitcairn not as a nostalgic historian and romancer of the sea but as a student of what he called a ''laboratory experiment"-the development by cross-breeding of a new type of human from precisely traceable origins. In the ''Pitcairn Island Register" he found a record of births and deaths...
Although the islanders read English, Dr. Shapiro found the spoken tongue a mixture of degenerate English, Tahitian, and Pitcairn-coined words. He heard children say, "see ahse scauws zsegoin out da big ship" ("see the boats going out to the big ship"); and, "pfwat youall comee do diffy daffy?" ("why are you coming to do this and that?"). A few words, such as "tai-tai" (tasteless), are retained from the Tahitian although long since obsolete on Tahiti itself...