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Vulnerable. In Honolulu, Laura McConnell got her divorce after she testified that her husband spent five nights a week playing bridge, the rest of the time talking bridge...
Every sport-minded Navy officer in Honolulu knew about "Chug-Chug" Williams. For three years the star of the Navy submarine base team, he was a big, wide-shouldered outfielder, who batted lefthanded, whaled the ball at a .350 clip in the cleanup spot. Last year, he helped his team win the island championship. When the team was all set to leave for San Diego to compete for the Navy championship, Chug-Chug refused to go. A chief petty officer got suspicious. Two days later, Chug-Chug surrendered. He admitted he was Seaman First Class Louis B. Williams, sought...
...GORTNER Honolulu, T.H. ¶ Says the University of Washington's Dr. Lauren Donaldson, director of the AEC-sponsored investigation at Bikini and Eniwetok: "What we have found, up to 1949, is that radioactivity still contaminates Bikini after three years. The quantities of radioactivity are minute, it is true. But we know that the activity is being circulated about the lagoon and is being retained and concentrated in the tissues of fish, animals and plants. We also know that these concentrations can produce radiation of sufficient intensity to form a hazard to health and life...
...Flanked by burly Hawaiian longshoremen and buried up to his pencil-sharp nose in flowery leis, Harry Bridges stood smiling on a ramp at Honolulu Airport one morning last week. "Well, Harry," said a dockworker, "we'll expect you back in 1951. We'll really give 'em hell then...
...sighs of relief in Honolulu at the news of the settlement were tempered by the bitter "What next?" of people who knew that Party Liner Bridges, with his union firmly implanted in the islands' rich pineapple and sugar industries, as well as across its shipping link to the U.S., could make life miserable again whenever he chose...