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...high command chose that day. After the war's termination, I checked up . . . The Japanese high command expected on Sunday morning the American fleet would be crippled for fighting by the drinking of Saturday. In fact, the Saturday night before the attack, we, aviators, also expected through the Honolulu radio that there would be very much drinking among American seamen and soldiers. It might be payday and the drink-shops would be running full steam. We heard jazz from the Honolulu radio through the night. We smiled because we knew very well for the result . . . There would be oversleeping...
Shirtless and full of aloha spirits, Cinemactor Zachary (Born to Be Bad) Scott walked into a Honolulu penny arcade where a bemused crowd gathered to watch him shimmy through a barefoot hula. The show ended when, cops arrived, charged Scott with being drunk, bedded him in jail for six hours...
...racing sloop L'Apache, a 73-footer, was running in second place in one of the world's longest yacht races-from Los Angeles harbor to Honolulu. At dawn one day last week, L'Apache's boom tackle broke. It had to be repaired under way, with 8-ft. seas running. Precious time was wasting. Crewman Ted Sierks, 40, an ex-Marine and photographer, was braced against the rail, trying to get the fractious boom under control. The rail broke and Sierks slid into...
...before the crippled L'Apache could come about and work back to the spot, Sierks was out of sight in the vastness of the Pacific. Six nearby yachts converged on the area when they heard L'Apache radio the shocking message: "Man overboard!" From Honolulu, 800 miles away, the Navy sent ships to the manhunt: an escort carrier, four destroyers, three destroyer escorts. An airrescue B-17 droned out from the Army's Hickam Field to join in the search...
...batboy," talks of building up his pitching staff (he has only one first-string pitcher, Ned Garver) by dusting off famed old (fiftyish) Relief Pitcher Satchel Paige ("Satch plays better now that he's had all his teeth pulled") and buying a Japanese pitcher now playing in Honolulu ("If a ballplayer can help this club I'll take him if he's blue with pink spots"). He will sift the minor leagues for power hitters ("This club couldn't punch its way out of a paper bag with a crowbar"). And last week he went after...