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TIME, Aug. 1 reports the Honolulu Star-Bulletin has a "growing circulation lead over the morning Advertiser...
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...morning of Dec. 7, 1941, a Sunday, the only working newsman at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin was Editor Riley H. Allen. Allen was at his desk at 6, as usual, following a habit of years. Just one hour and 55 minutes later, as the first wave of Japanese bombers swept over Pearl Harbor, Allen had the biggest exclusive of his life. Over at the rival Advertiser, then the only Sunday paper in town, the presses were out of action with a mechanical breakdown. Star-Bulletin Editor Allen, routing an emergency staff from bed, weaving stories from wire dispatches and eyewitness...
...exploit on that Sunday 19 years ago. In 48 years on the Star-Bulletin, he has given them plenty to remember. A lifelong Republican and small-d Democrat. Allen showed his colors privately and in print at every opportunity. In 1912, two years after his arrival in Honolulu from the sports department of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, he sparked the crusade that culminated last year in Hawaiian statehood. He backed legislation-opposed by the islands' powerful sugar and pineapple interests-that opened the public schools to children of imported Oriental laborers. A consistent critic of discrimination against any race...