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...German Jewish immigrant who ran a thriving butter and eggs business. Later, the family moved to Brooklyn, and Swifty took his LL.B at Brooklyn Law School. Sophie Tucker was one of his early legal clients, and he got into agenting when a nightclub impresario mentioned that he needed a Hawaiian musician. Swifty remembered one but could not recall the fellow's name. "I can get you Johnny Pineapple," he said recklessly. Then he tracked the Hawaiian down, told him his new name was Johnny Pineapple and booked him into the impresario's club. David Kaonohi is still performing...
...more than a month before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Ambassador Joseph Grew had warned from Tokyo that the Japanese might make "an all-out, do-or-die attempt . . . with dangerous and dramatic suddenness." When it came, the joint U.S. Army-Navy Hawaiian defense plan had been circulated as a model of strategic planning to all Navy district commanders-but was not in effect in Hawaii on Dec. 7. Ten full hours after Japan's virtually unopposed destruction of the U.S. Pacific fleet, the enemy found Douglas MacArthur's Far East air force neatly arrayed for extermination...
...virtually unknown in the U.S. Chicago-born Conductor Smith, 30, who "wanted to be a choir leader for as long as I can remember," established the group at the Los Angeles Japanese Methodist Church in 1955. At full strength it now numbers nearly 60 singers-white, Negro, Japanese, Hawaiian and Chinese. Explains pert, pony-tailed Soprano Uta Shimotskuka, 23: "With a good group like this, it was easy to attract many young singers who heard that we preferred Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina and also Faure and Poulenc to the inevitable Handel and Mendelssohn...
Neon Islands. Mary and Norman Kaye came by their style naturally enough, as the children of a durable vaudevillian named Johnny Ukulele, a Hawaiian, whose real name is Johnny Kaaihue. Their mother died when they were young; they were raised in orphanages and foster homes and on the carnival circuit, doing ten-a-day acts with their father. When they formed their own singing group, it was called the Kaiihue Trio, became the Mary Kaye Trio when they decided to give up their original concentration on Hawaiian songs...
...This Is Not America." State legislators were so vexed at the regents' dawdling that Hawaii's Governor William F. Quinn fired the entire board, appointed a new one headed by Hawaiian Pineapple Co.'s energetic President Herbert C. Cornuelle. Things began to move a bit. Though still without a plant of its own, the center scoured Asia for students, snapped up Fulbright rejects. The bait: two-year scholarships, valued at $9,000, including transportation, books, board and room, $50 a month spending money, and a two-month study tour of the mainland. When ground was broken last...