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...Brown is TIME'S only subscriber on Raiatea, a high green island just 120 miles 'northwest of Tahiti, and ever since Pearl Harbor he has been getting anywhere from 12 to 16 issues of our Overseas Edition the same day-by steamer from San Francisco to Tahiti, by little inter-island schooner from Tahiti to Raiatea. And when the mail comes...
...What happened to Artie and his Stanley Steamer that night? Professor Merriam and others were greatly disturbed at his absence...
...meteoric manager, Harris (real name: Jacob Horowitz) is a volcanic man. Born in Newark (though he later said he was born in Vienna), he read omnivorously at Yale for two years, then quit. He bummed his way west and then abroad, coming home a stowaway in a tramp steamer. Home now meant Broadway. Harris became a press agent for the Shuberts and "stamped and cried with rage" at the way his bosses butchered scripts. When he had saved up $3,000 he started producing...
Better than Irving's books, his hasty notes evoke the freshness of that vanished time. On Monday, Sept. 3, 1832, at 5 in the evening, the steamer Messenger left Cincinnati and carried the traveler into a land of enchantment: "-light of fires-chant & chorus of Negro boatmen-wavering light of moon & stars-silent, primeval forest sleeping in sunshine-on each side still forest-forest-forest...
...below prewar first-class steamer rates...