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Taking office as his city's 29th mayor, San Francisco's shipping tycoon (American Hawaiian-Steamship Co.) and longtime leading citizen Roger Dearborn Lapham, 60, made a promise: "I shall not run for mayor again. I am glad of that pledge because it gives me an inner freedom of mind which I could not otherwise have...
Then came Dec. 7, 1941. After the Jap attack the Army was left with only 176 combat planes in the Hawaiian and Philippine theaters. The job of building the A.A.F. became a matter not of cost but of life or death...
...Zanzibar. The finest legitimate flutist in the U.S. is William Kincaid, a courtly, silver-haired, Honolulu-raised native of Minneapolis, whose abilities ornament the Philadelphia Orchestra. Like all great flutists, Kincaid has a chest like a bellows. He developed it while a child, swimming at Hawaiian beaches with his friend Duke Kahanamoku...
...accompaniment of "an ensemble of harp, flute, two violins and guitar, [playing] Venetian songs of gaiety." The soup required a guitar rendering of Moszkowski's Malagueña, the escarole salad the playing of Götterdämmerung. Some 4,000 canaries chirped together with Italian and Hawaiian singers, against a backdrop painted by the Metropolitan Opera's Scenarist Rosa. Alpine scenes were made of 400 baskets of strawberries, nougat (for roads), sugar and tartar (for snow...
Details of operation are the darkest of secrets. During that censored number of days when she lies in Pearl Harbor being prepared for her next excursion, yarns are spun at the officers' club ashore and at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, where submariners are quartered between patrols. But few stories leak out to the newspapers. In no other realm of naval warfare is stealth so important, secrecy so vital. Only gradually has the Navy released the names of some of the skippers, the quietly tough young men who run the lean black ships in the tradition of John Paul Jones...