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...Soprano Margaret Truman, soon to start a twelve-concert tour (Montreal to Honolulu) before resuming her television chores in December, counted herself out as a nightclub performer: "Two shows a night, plus singing in all that smoke and noise-that's the hardest way I know to make a living...
...flying between points in the U.S. will be by air coach, saving 30%. More than half of all transatlantic plane passengers are buying tourist fare tickets at the same saving. To cash in on this boom, United next week will drop six of its twelve regular-fare flights to Honolulu and increase its air-coach flights from four to eight a week...
...makes it logistically easy to keep up with a wandering Navy vessel. For example, if a sailor's ship is in the Mediterranean or the North Sea, he would get the Atlantic edition. If he moved into the Pacific, he would get either the Pacific edition printed in Honolulu or the one from Tokyo...
Transferred into Company G at Schofield Barracks in Honolulu, Prew is instantly informed by Captain Dana ("Dynamite") Holmes that he cannot go his own way. Captain Holmes, a boxing fanatic who wants his company to win the regimental championship, knows that Prew is a first-class middleweight, and insists that he box for his new outfit. Prew, who quit fighting after he blinded a friend with a "no more'n ordinary right cross," refuses. Furious, Holmes orders his non-coms-all of whom are on the boxing team-to give Prew "the treatment...
...notable films as The Search, The Men, The Member of the Wedding. At 46 one of Hollywood's top directors, Vienna-born Fred Zinnemann, a former cameraman, uses the camera with easy familiarity, and with a cool simplicity that seems astonished by nothing but shows compassion for everything. Honolulu's Schofield Barracks (where much of the picture was actually filmed) becomes a large, stark frame for some memorable scenes, such as the rite of taps for Private Maggio, with the notes of martial mourning groping their way from stone to stone and from face to shadowy face...