Tales of the South Pacific He is never seen by the other characters in Michener's short story until a search-and-rescue party finds his head impaled on a stake. The character of Emile de Becque in Michener's short story has eight mixed-race illegitimate daughters by four different women, none of whom he married, when he meets the nurse Ensign Nellie Forbush; in the musical, he has two legitimate mixed-race children by a Polynesian woman whom he had married and who had died. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific" was made into a feature film in 1958. It was adapted as a made-for television film 2001.
Scott Forbush In 1931 he was granted permission to finish his graduate studies in physics and mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. He became married in 1932 to Clara Lundell, concert pianist, and was widowed in 1967. Scott Forbush in larger part of his career was employed by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington D.C. In 1957 he was named chairman of a section on theoretical geophysics at DTM, and around the same time became a chairman of the Panel on Cosmic Rays of the U.S. National Committee for a year. With these titles he helped