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...bald, rotund tourist wafted in on the trade winds for a vacation in 1954. The tourist was Henry J. Kaiser, fresh from several careers as wartime shipbuilder, automaker, steelman and millionaire chief of a vast industrial empire. Vacationing with his second wife, Kaiser found hotel accommodations scarce on Honolulu's crowded Waikiki Beach, rented a house near Diamond Head, and sat back to wonder who would house the hordes of mainlanders he felt sure would discover the island's natural beauty and balmy climate. His predictable answer: Henry J. Kaiser...
...Club (he wanted to call his club the Hawaii Kai Yacht Club), the airlines (he threatened to start his own airline to the mainland), and his radio station's disc jockey, J. Akuhead Pupule, Hawaii's most popular disc jockey-whom Kaiser fired last week. Asked the Honolulu Advertiser in an editorial: "Who's running Hawaii?" The paper indicated that Kaiser was-and it did not like...
...down for action and conducted a seashore luau on the island of Maui. Clad only in a slit-to-hip malo and a rakish palm hat, Bernstein entertained his entire New York Philharmonic Orchestra, which was flown over to Maui after two concerts under Bernstein's baton in Honolulu. During the day the mellowing boy wonder of music went waterskiing, stuffed himself with poi and other Hawaiian goodies, planted a coconut tree and got a raft of gifts, including a pass exempting him from being jugged for any Maui traffic violations...
Although tourist travel accounts for the biggest share of charters, corporations are joining the fun. Next week Hupp's Gibson Refrigerator Division of Greenville, Mich, will spend nearly $2,000,000 to charter 31 Pan American 707 jets to fly 5,080 dealers from 23 U.S. cities to Honolulu for a sales convention; General Electric has chartered 17 jets for a similar junket this fall. All of the nation's 16 major-league ball clubs now travel on chartered planes, and there are even charter runs to ferry monkeys and elephants from India, blooded Irish race horses...
Married. Andre Kostelanetz, 58, Russian-born orchestra conductor whose recordings of homogenized classics and hoked-up pop works have sold some 40 million copies over the past 20 years; and Sara Gene Orcutt, 32, Oklahoma-born divorcee; both for the second time (his first: Soprano Lily Pons); in Honolulu...