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...Alton) Rinker can remember when he and his friend Crosby had a band at Gonzaga University in Spokane. Says Al: "Bing had a swell set of trap drums with a beautiful Hawaiian sunset painted on the big drum and lit from the inside. . . . He still can't read music and wasn't much of a drummer; he never could roll." In 1925 the boys left school and began a hazardous professional life with the help of Bing's brother Everett, a truck salesman, and Al's sister, who later turned out to be the superb blues...
...rest. Father of the late Army Air Forces Captain Don Evan Brown, killed in action, the crater-mouthed clown had been diligently gagging for the armed forces for more than a year, had given as many as ten shows a day. He had pretty well covered Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands, was the first entertainer to reach South Pacific advanced bases. Of his isolated audiences he reported: "Even when they couldn't hear me they'd laugh...
Best health record in the world is that of the 87,000 workers on the plantations of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Their infant-mortality rate, prime index of health status, was only 16 infant deaths per 1,000 live births last year-enough to make any health officer whistle.* When the owners began the medical program in 1929, the rate on a typical plantation was 160.6 among half a dozen nationalities: Filipinos, Japanese, a conglomerate of Hawaiians, Chinese and Caucasians, a sprinkling of Portuguese and Puerto Ricans...
...Hawaiian Swede. The man back of this triumph of paternalism over disease is big, redheaded, Swedish-born Dr. Nils Paul Larsen, Medical Director of Queens Hospital in Honolulu, allergist, artist, mountain climber and deep-sea diver (until heart trouble recently put a stop to it). Now 53, he went to Hawaii in 1921 as head of the hospital, a job he kept until his retirement last year. In the '20s the high infant-mortality rate on the plantations shocked him, but he thought the plantations potentially "the finest biological test tubes in the world." He talked the Association directors...
...Hawaiian Airlines (88% owned by Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co.) wants a 2,600-mile run between Hawaii and Los Angeles, would fly passengers, mail and express. CAB has already refused to let Matson Navigation and Inter-Island join with Pan American on this route. Reason: Such control of an airline would open the way for a monopoly...