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Within 24 hours, an emergency committee in Honolulu raised $5,000 to send six Hawaiians (a Gold Star mother and five veterans) off to Washington to make Connally eat his words. En route, the Hawaiians stopped off at Austin, Texas, and got a rousing reception from old friends in Texas' 36th Division. The reason: a "lost battalion" of the Texas 36th, when encircled by the enemy in France in 1944, was rescued by the U.S. 442nd regimental combat team, which was made up mostly of Hawaiian-born Japanese-Americans. At the time, none of the Texans made inquiries about...
Sugar Ray Robinson decisioned Carl "Bobo" Olson of Honolulu last night...
Sack Suits. Today, as before, the center of the sugar and pineapple kingdom lies between Bishop and Fort Streets in Honolulu. But the men who stride briskly in & out of the air-conditioned buildings are not proprietors in the 19th century sense; they are corporate managers...
...their brethren in the corporate world from San Francisco to Boston, they incline toward the Brooks Brothers sack suit-and wouldn't be caught dead in an open-necked, flowered aloha shirt during business hours. Shares of all but one of the Big Five are traded on the Honolulu Stock Exchange. Between stockholders' meetings, the corporate executives manage sugar and pineapple plantations, and manage them with great skill. They compete with each other for insurance business. They still have tight control of sugar and ultimate say-so over the Matson steamship line, but dominate very little else. They...
...Winds. It is the tourist Hawaii that Hawaiians have done the best job of selling. The center of this tourist world is the white sand crescent of Waikiki beach, rimmed by the big hotels. Most tourists spend their time lolling in the sun-with perhaps a duty Circuit of Honolulu's island of Oahu. They visit the mid-island pass called the Pali and gaze down with ohs and ahs from its high cliff. There King Kamehameha I in 1795 won an important victory in his campaign to unite the islands by beating the defending Oahuans and forcing some...