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...Aloha, Webster...
...which he hopes will repair the effects of a serious auto accident suffered 22 years ago. Next day, conscious of his duty to his public and perhaps alarmed by a hint of bad publicity, Godfrey gave an interview to 16 members of the local press. Wearing a boldly patterned aloha shirt ("I never sleep in anything else"), Godfrey posed for pictures. He hugged his nurse and hung Tarzanlike from an overhead bed trapeze. He explained away the business at the airport by saying: "I didn't want any one hit by a propeller." The press departed to fill their...
...letter also criticized the design of the ties that the University issues to men who lack them at meals. The ties are gaudy, not neat, claim the vigilantes, and the "University gets these ties from the Aloha Sport Shirt Company which is controlled by the mother of one of the members of the Faculty Executive Committee...
Like their brethren in the corporate world from San Francisco to Boston, they incline toward the Brooks Brothers sack suit-and wouldn't be caught dead in an open-necked, flowered aloha shirt during business hours. Shares of all but one of the Big Five are traded on the Honolulu Stock Exchange. Between stockholders' meetings, the corporate executives manage sugar and pineapple plantations, and manage them with great skill. They compete with each other for insurance business. They still have tight control of sugar and ultimate say-so over the Matson steamship line, but dominate very little else...
Shirtless and full of aloha spirits, Cinemactor Zachary (Born to Be Bad) Scott walked into a Honolulu penny arcade where a bemused crowd gathered to watch him shimmy through a barefoot hula. The show ended when, cops arrived, charged Scott with being drunk, bedded him in jail for six hours...