Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time he announced for the first post-statehood gubernatorial election. Bill Quinn was perhaps the most widely known territorial Governor in the island's history. Flanked by an eager organization, he redoubled his trips into the island precincts, remembered names, always had plenty to talk about in his chats with the voters. Nonetheless, in the June primaries Democrat Burns outpolled Republican Quinn by a fateful 3-2. This was just the kind of odds that suited Quinn bes't. He cultivated the independents, pounded hard at the news that Burns's powerful backer, the I.L.W.U., was flirting...
...acre," a total of 144,480 state-owned acres on four of the islands. "Hoax!" cried the Democrats, and even many a top Republican admitted that much of this land was either worthless or else so encumbered by long-term leaseholds that the plan would never work. Bill Quinn firmly denied that his scheme was just so much poi-in-the-sky, still promises to deliver...
...selling newspapers, shining shoes and caddying, changed his first name from Yau to Hiram to honor a venerable Congregational missionary, Hiram Bingham.* The University of Hawaii was tougher, but Hiram Fong got through in three years with honors, with a bewildering collection of side jobs that ranged from bill collector to tourist guide. After graduation he worked for two years, borrowed $3,000 to go to Harvard Law School, went back to Hawaii in 1935 with his degree and "10? in my pocket." The law firm he founded is wonderfully Hawaiian-Fong, Miho, Choy & Robinson -Chinese, Japanese. Korean and Caucasian...
...they got Annie Oakley, Mickey Mouse, Popeye; with cocktails it was Lucille Ball in Lucy or Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern; with the bedtime mild-and-bitter came OSS, or Lee Marvin's M Squad. On commercial channels in the south, Midlands, and north, screens flashed with Wild Bill Hickok, Lassie. Joe Friday, Martin Kane or Flash Gordon...
...money, big-bill payers demand big-name stars of Broadway and TV. So the Concord shells out $6,500 for one night of Berle; the G imports Pat Suzuki, Robert Merrill, George Jessel (its smaller nightclub keeps its budget down to $2,000 for individual acts). There are some 50 hotels in the Belt, and top entertainers-Georgia Gibbs, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Martin, Red Buttons-make the rounds. Says Comedian Gene Baylos, who is spending the summer playing the Belt: "You're facing the toughest audience. They become connoisseurs, and they're very critical. Hell, they...