Word: honolulu
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Gannett papers now serve state capitals as far apart as Hartford and Honolulu. Last year was the company's biggest ever for acquisitions: 17 dailies for a total of $130 million, mostly in Gannett stock. This year the group has already paid $14 million for the Nashville, Tenn., Banner (circ. 97,800), and next month plans to take over the El Paso Times (59,348) for an estimated $20 million. With Gannett stock selling at some 35 times earnings, stockholders at the corporation's annual meeting in Rochester last week authorized a doubling of outstanding shares...
...Insect stings are a common warm-weather hazard. Except in rare cases of serious shock, treatment is often omitted. But a cheap and effective antidote is readily available in the kitchen, according to a letter in the A.M.A. Journal by Dr. Harry Arnold Jr., a Honolulu dermatologist. His prescription: a quarter-teaspoon of meat tenderizer dissolved in a teaspoon or two of water and rubbed into the skin around the bite. Meat tenderizer, Arnold explains, is rich in papain, a protein-dissolving enzyme, which breaks down the venom. Arnold says that a dose of meat tenderizer will stop the pain...
Living in Washington, Dita claims she "got engaged to three men at the same time": a Far East expert in the Dutch embassy, an Army officer and an Italian naval attache. Since the Dutchman gave her the prettiest ring, she agreed to visit him in Honolulu, traveling on a Matson liner. "They were all interested in this long, lanky female traveling alone. We had a party that wouldn't stop." She ditched the Dutchman in Hawaii, but claims she met Ernest Hemingway there. "He called me Princess." As she booked passage home, "I saw this gorgeous hunk of body...
Volunteer Baby-Sitter. To get that kind of information, Carlson, 60, a short and trim man, has been in constant motion. He prides himself on putting in only one day a week in Chicago, spending the rest of his time roaming the U.A.L. network from Honolulu to New York. He often turns up at United hangars and airport kitchens, shakes hands with startled baggagemen and quizzes stewardesses about flight service and their complaints. Riding coach recently on a U.A.L. flight, he voluntarily handed over $1.50 to a stewardess who had been worrying whether to charge him for a drink...
...accretion of superfluous middle-and upper-level managers left over from the Trippe era -"the faded aristocracy," as Pan Am Vice President Frank Doyle calls them -has not been noticeably thinned out. In many of its 109 overseas outposts, the line maintains larger staffs than do competitors. In Honolulu, for example, Pan Am has 1,200 employees and United has 1,000 to handle an equal number of flights...