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Long, Long Trail. In Asheville, N.C., Technical Sergeant Elmer Akau, who had fought on Guadalcanal and been hospitalized in New Caledonia, found himself "returned" to an Army redistribution center. Happy but baffled, he announced that he had never been so far from his Honolulu home...
Even before we were printed in Manila, TIME was doing its best to help our troops and internees catch up with the news. For example, ever since last October we have been flying our lightweight Pony Edition from Honolulu to Leyte, distributing 4,000 copies there free each week while that same issue was still on sale right here at home. And the copy of our Pony Edition which Correspondent Bill Gray flew to Manila in his pocket a few weeks ago was read aloud to the internees at Santo Tomas by rescued Newscaster Don Bell of NBC. Said Gray...
...other companies were undaunted by the grandeur of Pan Am's plans. United had previously argued persuasively for a line to Honolulu, which United's president, William A. Patterson, whimsically defined as nothing more than a 2,400-mile extension of his domestic trans continental route. They now asked for an Alaskan route in addition. T.W.A. plotted a fast route to the Orient (via the Northern Pacific) to complete its bid for a round-the-world route. North west bid for service to Alaska, and asked permission to use the bleak "over the top" route via Tokyo...
...handsome Bill Chickering was living in Honolulu when World War II began. His book on old Hawaii, Within the Sound of These Waves, was published in 1941. On the recommendation of men who knew him, TIME hired him as its Honolulu man, sent him to cover MacArthur's headquarters in Australia...
...behalf of the many officers and enlisted personnel of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, who have read and enjoyed the thousands of copies of TIME contributed by your Honolulu representative and distributed in the Pacific Ocean Areas by the Fleet Recreation and Morale Officer, I extend my sincere appreciation and gratitude...