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Farmer William L. Booth, a stocky, rugged-looking man, had read the ad in the Farm Bureau magazine. It sounded good: "HOOSIER HAWAIIAN AIR-A-VAN: Away from home only 22 days, yet 18 full BIG days of Hawaiian enjoyment. Actually see and visit Pearl Harbor, Diamond Head, huge volcanoes. Live on Waikiki Beach for a week and take part in a big broadcast." He decided to take his wife and eleven-year-old son, too. The price for the whole family...
This week Farmer Booth and his family, and 21 other Indiana farmers and wives on the Hoosier Hawaiian Air-a-Van boarded a plane at the Indianapolis airport. "They're all just good, average farmers," explained a Farm Bureau man. "None of them is the top brass kind of farmer. They're all pretty much alike, these Indiana farmers...
...Elaine White, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer secretary: "Well, I sure wasted a Christmas card, I guess." Producer Joan Harrison: "We were just good friends." Long before the fact, Paulette Goddard was quoted as saying: "That's that. So long, sugar." In San Francisco, as the Gables started on a Hawaiian honeymoon, several hundred unidentified girls-left-behind shouted, screamed and caused a near riot outside the newlyweds' suite aboard the Lurline...
Sumner, who says his parents have approved of the plan, is looking for a two-man crew to make the trip and share expenses. He plans to have the boat built in Japan and sail the southern route, stopping at Guam, Wake, Midway, and the Hawaiian Islands...
That should have been a hint to the assembled newsmen, but it escaped them. Harry Bridges was on the way back to San Francisco, presumably because he had been unable to reach a settlement of the Hawaiian waterfront strike. The newsmen, the longshoremen and Bridges stood talking idly a few minutes more. Harry was expecting a phone call, he said. Finally the airport loudspeaker blared out that Bridges' plane was loading. "Well," said Harry, "there hasn't been any phone call so here it is." He cocked a foot up on a nearby bench and began talking slowly...