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Having made their obeisances to Moscow, the delegates nominated Harry Bridges and his lieutenants to two-year terms, thus assured their members that control of the West Coast and Hawaiian union (75,000 members) still lies in the hands of the Communist Party...
Bird of Paradise (20th Century-Fox] splurges Technicolor, lush Hawaiian scenery and anthropological detail on the job of salvaging a 1912 play (and 1932 movie) about ill-starred love in Polynesia. The result is eye-filling and sometimes interesting. But quaint Hollywood customs get in the way of the South Seas folklore...
...picked to run one of the world's great universities last week was a vice president of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co. 20 years ago, at the age of 33. Pineapples, plus the other jobs Deane Waldo Malott has swung in the last 20 years, persuaded the trustees to make him president of Cornell...
Pagan Love Song (MGM) casts Esther Williams adrift in the shallows of a musicomedy set in Tahiti (and filmed on Hawaiian locations). Esther plays a well-to-do Tahitian half-caste who meets, loses and finally gets a plantation heir (Howard Keel) newly arrived from Ohio. In the full flush of health, she glows in almost every tint of the Technicolor spectrum, swims not only on the water and under it but also (in a dream sequence) in the sky. In lieu of comedy, Actress Williams and Singer Keel laugh with unconvincing gaiety on the flimsiest excuse. The score consists...
...reacted to the Pearl Harbor attack merely by trying to clear the Japanese out of Hawaiian waters, World War II would be still going on-or else the enemy would have won it by now. The U.S. and its allies won because they immediately understood that they were in a war with Japan and that their ultimate goal was the destruction of the enemy's will to fight...