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...trans-Pacific race is the toughest test of men and ships yet devised. Sail, rigging, hull and nerves are strained to the breaking point as crews drive their craft before the northeasterly trade winds over most of the 2,225 miles of open sea between San Pedro and Honolulu...
...never seen before. They began to ask questions. Had they been promoted? What were the 1955 cars like? Within three hours from the time they splashed across the bridge, the four were aboard The Bataan (once General Douglas MacArthur's personal C-54 transport), on their way to Honolulu. They savored every bite of filet mignon, drank two gallons of milk and leafed through magazines, admiring pictures of a girl they had never heard of named Gina Lollobrigida...
...Honolulu's Hickam Air Force Base, they went through the mill of physicians, psychiatrists and intelligence officers. Colonel Heller, whose left leg had been broken when he parachuted out of his crashing plane, has undergone repeated surgery in a Chinese hospital, now has a plate in his shortened leg, and probably will need further surgery. Lieut. Parks had an eye ailment; Captain Fischer needed dental work. But in general, all four were in good health. The clothes that had. been bought from, pre-prison measurements fit fairly well...
When official word of their release came through, Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott personally telephoned the families of the four men to say that the Air Force would fly them to Honolulu for a reunion. After the big Air Force Constellation carrying the families landed at Hickam, the first passenger out of the door was Judith Heller, who had gathered together a whole "trousseau" for the reunion. She paused, looked at the husband she had not seen for 34 months, and gasped. From the throat of Airman Heller there came a choked cry, and then he bounded...
...fight to escape deportation to his native Argentina, Crooner Dick Haymes at last won a big round. A federal judge ruled that Hawaii is "a geographical part" of the U.S., thus Alien Haymes did not re-enter the U.S. illegally after a visit to Honolulu in 1953, when he was wooing his present, fourth wife, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth. The harassed Haymeses, however, had only a brief surcease of sorrow. Two days later, bad news broke: Columbia studios had sued Rita for default on a $17,844 note she signed last December. Day after that, the Justice Department, still determined...