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Show v mt Salt afcf filmnc ' 25, 1973 Friday, May Page One SerlionC Off Maine Coast Hermit Says Island Life Happy By Phyllis Austin Associated Press Writer ISLAND, 'MAINE MANANA For more than half of his 76 years, Ray Phillips has been a dropout from society, living as a hermit on this tiny island off the Maine qiast. His wild white hair and beard and tattered ,, clothes seem to marie Sfrr as untamed as the sheep, gander and sea birds that follow him about. (AP) But his nature is as gentle as the peaceful life he chose back in the Depression. The weather decides what the stooped recluse makes of his days on this rocky, almost treeless islet 11 miles from the mainland. Walks a Lot its If sunny, Phillips does do best walk, tends his animals and looks for driftwood along the shore. 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