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...eager to snap up his rival's discarded aces; The Mariners, a Negro-white quartet (their last song for Godfrey: I Didn't Come to Say Hello, I Came to Say Good-Bye), also got a Sullivan offer plus a flood of nightclub bookings. But Hawaiian Singer-Hula Dancer Haleloke, a longtime Godfrey fixture, was so upset that she took to her bed. As for the writers, Godfrey said: "They just write those little cards I read from. I don't need writers unless I can find some with new ideas." After his hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Ex-Friends | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...accredited teachers' normal college). Some take courses outside the convent in nursing, social work, medicine. Those not studying during work periods may be building a new terrace, or working in the kitchen to help Sister Gregory, who spent 26 years in Hawaii and can manage a graceful hula. Maintenance Chief Sister Jeannette always has plenty of odd jobs going begging. "I received the most wonderful present for Christmas," she says. "A power saw! Things like that are what we really need-not more black gloves and fountain pens and devotional books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Laborare Est Orare | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...window. I ran around to the front door and asked the cop if I could go out, but he wouldn't let me until I said I was Eddie Fisher trying to get some fresh air. I went back in, and spied Debbie cavorting on the stage with some hula girls. From time to time she would draw her skirt up to a chalk mark four inches above her knee, cry "Mercy!" as the flashbulbs popped, and hurriedly drop it. She let me hold her silver fox wrap, and a lady from Universal-International, sensing my importance, sidled over...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Some Enchanted Tea Time | 11/17/1954 | See Source »

Change Partners. In Albuquerque, Ida Gutierrez Trujillo, mother of eight, filed a $15,000 alienation-of-affections suit against Dance Teacher Elsie Ryan Trujillo, charged that Elsie stole the love of Acquiles Trujillo by her demonstrations of the "hula-hula, hoochy-coochy, mambo and samba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 30, 1954 | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

Last September the thirsty, aggressive Israelis struck out for water. They moved bulldozers north to the upper Jordan at Lake Hula, bordering Syria, and began constructing a nine-mile-long, parallel canal to divert part of Jordan's waters into a hydroelectric station, from there to be spilled back into the Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Troubled Waters | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

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