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...went on leave to be navigator as far as Australia for Amelia Earhart on her proposed flight around the world. In Honolulu, the plane skidded on a take-off and cracked up. No one was hurt, but Manning had to return to his ship before the plane could be repaired and the flight resumed. This was the flight on which Amelia Earhart lost her life...
EARLY last year Michael Romanoff, who was building a new restaurant in Beverly Hills, Calif., found himself in need of more funds to finish the job. With his usual aplomb, Mr. Romanoff cabled his old friend Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, then vacationing in Honolulu, and asked if he might borrow $25,000. The money arrived the next morning, accompanied by a note which read: "I'm always pleased to serve my King...
...playing on U.S. soil. The last time he tried it, in Manhattan, he was met with picket lines and cries of "Nazi!" and the Justice Department asked him to postpone his concert till it investigated him (TIME, Feb. 7, 1949). Gieseking flew back to Europe in a huff. In Honolulu this week, 5,000 miles from Manhattan, Pianist Gieseking turned up again for a concert on U.S. territory. Almost the only ripple was the ripple of the applause...
...Immigration Service seemed to have no special questions to ask him (Gieseking was cleared by U.S. Military Government in Germany in 1947, has played for U.S. occupation troops). Four or five citizens wrote protesting letters to the Honolulu papers, but there was no picket line. Six hundred showed up for the concert in Dillingham Hall (capacity: 850), and Gieseking brought them to their feet for encores after a sparkling program of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Debussy. He gave them four encores, accepted a lei of pink carnations...
Winners of the Boylston Prize for the excellence of their medical dissertations are: First Prize, Stanton Segal of Camden, N.J. Second Prize, William L. Morgan, Jr., of Honolulu. Honorable Mention, James S. Bernstein'48, of Brooklyn...