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...Navy long ago took over swank establishments like Honolulu's Royal Hawaiian Hotel for bluejackets returned from combat. About 5,000 Army airmen rest each month at topflight resort hotels in the U.S. Finally, last week some of the same kind of luxury was dished up for G.I. Joe himself...
...seen the San Diego railroad-car film of his Democratic Convention speech, in which his face had seemed gaunt and slack, his eyes and cheeks hollow. They had not been able to tell whether bad lighting or deep fatigue was responsible. They had noted that in pictures shot in Hawaiian sunshine, and again, beneath a cruiser's guns at Bremerton, he seemed healthier, more alert, though thinner of face. Therefore, with curiosity and concern, they filed in for the first post-Pacific press conference...
Civilian prisoners taken on Saipan believed that the Japanese had captured the Hawaiian Islands, that their Navy had gone through the Panama Canal without losing a ship, had taken Washington. Another yarn, which U.S. reporters read in the English-language newspaper Mainichi: the late Navy Secretary Frank Knox was losing his fleet at the rate of one or two ships a day instead of risking it all in one battle. Reason (according to Mainichi): Publisher Knox would get more stories for his newspaper that...
...Dancer. In the Hawaiian Islands, Private Herman Zachary, an Indian, got tired of seeing the hula, wrote home to Desmet, Idaho, for his feathers, breech clout, tomahawk and moccasins...
...Tuncks Is a Good Name." Manley Hopkins, Gerard's father, not only wrote books giving Advice and Instructions to the Master Mariner in Situations of Doubt, Difficulty, and Danger; he was also consul general in London for the then-independent Hawaiian Islands. Sons Arthur and Everard contributed drawings to Punch; Lionel, British Consul in Chefoo, collected "ancient incised bones...