Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another front-line fighter from the Fifth who won: professional bantamweight Champion Marshall Higa, Hawaiian-born of Jap parents. (For news of another Hawaiian hero, see ,p. 16.) From General Sir Henry Maitland (";Jumbo") Wilson down, the brassiest hats of the North African Theater were among the 80,000 who saw and cheered the six-day finals. Up to officials in Washington is their proposal: that the eight amateur champions be sent to the U.S. to fight the best amateurs on the home front...
...handsomest Chinese fighter pilot in the European Theater of Operations" is what slight, Hawaiian-born Lieut. Kong calls himself (he is the only one; there are a few Chinese-American bombermen). He got into flying by way of the Corps of Engineers, for which he worked as a chem ist after he finished the University of Hawaii. Between missions he tries to teach other pilots Hawaiian without nota ble success. They cannot even learn to say "Hemakana Hewahewa Okalani Yim," which is his niece Shirley's Hawaiian name...
Taking office as his city's 29th mayor, San Francisco's shipping tycoon (American Hawaiian-Steamship Co.) and longtime leading citizen Roger Dearborn Lapham, 60, made a promise: "I shall not run for mayor again. I am glad of that pledge because it gives me an inner freedom of mind which I could not otherwise have...
Then came Dec. 7, 1941. After the Jap attack the Army was left with only 176 combat planes in the Hawaiian and Philippine theaters. The job of building the A.A.F. became a matter not of cost but of life or death...
...Zanzibar. The finest legitimate flutist in the U.S. is William Kincaid, a courtly, silver-haired, Honolulu-raised native of Minneapolis, whose abilities ornament the Philadelphia Orchestra. Like all great flutists, Kincaid has a chest like a bellows. He developed it while a child, swimming at Hawaiian beaches with his friend Duke Kahanamoku...