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Died. Roger D. Lapham, 82, businessman-politician who in the 1930s, as president of the American-Hawaiian Steamship line, won the grudging respect of Harry Bridges' West Coast dockers for his tough, fair-minded negotiations, a quality that helped him as mayor of San Francisco (1944-48), where he successfully cleaned out entrenched machine politics, but failed to secure for the city the permanent location of the U.N.; after a fall; in San Francisco...
...year-old Texan with the face of a Boston terrier, Brewer has been a regular on the pro golf tour since 1956. He has won eight tournaments and $208,000, but most of his triumphs occurred in such obscure events as the Mobile Sertoma Open and the Hawaiian Open. Actually, Brewer's main talent is for losing-the hard way. He has finished second twelve times, and he has lost three out of five playoffs during his pro career. Now Gay has set some sort of record for frustration by losing two big playoffs in a row-to Jack...
...form of courage. For all their dash, U.S. generals appreciate slow, painstaking preparation and careful strategy in the tradition of Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator ("The Delayer"). After Pearl Harbor, when Admiral Chester Nimitz was rebuilding the US. Navy, he invariably fended off action-hungry critics with the Hawaiian phrase Hoomana wa nui (Be patient...
Isles of the Blest. Tall tales of horse trading, Twain found, were the same the world over. For instance, a visiting American, shopping for a matched pair of horses, was led by a Hawaiian native trader to a little stable, unfortunately locked, as the trader's brother had gone to the country with the key. The purchaser examined one horse critically through a window, went around the stable, and examined the other through a window at the other end. The match was perfect, the deal concluded on the spot, and the salesman went off-leaving his client to discover...
After his four-month exploration, Twain forever yearned to return to Hawaii. In 1881, he wrote to a Hawaiian friend that "if the house would only burn down, we would pack up the cubs and fly to the isles of the blest, and shut ourselves up in the healing solitudes of Haleakala and get a good rest; for the mails do not intrude there, nor yet the telephone and the telegraph. And after resting, we would come down the mountain a piece and board with a godly, breech-clouted native, and eat poi and dirt and give thanks to whom...