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Almost every 15 minutes from dawn to dusk a DC-3 takes off from or lands at Honolulu Airport for a flight around the islands. Businessmen fly from one island to another for lunch; housewives fly into Honolulu to shop; planters commute by air between farms and cities. Islanders call Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd. the "trolley line." Next week Hawaiian Airlines, with two more DC-3s added to its fleet of eight, will step up its flights from...
Week-Ending Columnist Hedda Hopper, on encountering lei-bearing greeters at Honolulu's airfield: "Gadzooks, what a reception for an old goat...
...Honolulu last week, George McMillen, of Los Angeles, paused briefly on a junket to China. Among other assignments, McMillen would enter a Philippine jungle, shouting for Chloe. If she failed to answer, he was to bring home a boa constrictor. McMillen is a contest loser. He missed a $2,000 prize on NBC's Truth or Consequences. The consequence: his trip, paid for jointly by the radio show and Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley...
Hundreds of Hawaiians lined Honolulu's Waikiki Beach one day last week to say goodbye to the famed old liner Mat-sonia. As the ship passed, on her last voyage to the mainland, a few sentimental spectators wept. One of Hawaii's most popular links with the mainland, she was headed for San Francisco and the auction block. In her place this week was a younger (1932) Matson ship, the 18,163-ton Lurline, making her first commercial postwar trip to the Islands...
Paul Hoffman, president of Studebaker Corp., was in Honolulu, on his way home from Korea and Japan, when a telephone call from the White House caught up with him. The call was from John Steelman. Harry Truman's aide wanted to know whether Hoffman, who had been a member of a commission making a Far East economic survey, would head the Economic Cooperation Administration. Hoffman said later: "I tried for two days to think of how to say No, but I just couldn't." Two days later, lugging a suitcase full of dirty laundry, he landed in Washington...