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...Women's Amateur golf championship, two and one on the 35th hole, over Shirley McFedters, University of California at Los Angeles coed; in Portland, Ore. Roly-poly (210 lbs.. 5 ft. 3 in.) Mrs. Pung, 29, after winning was given a buss and a lei by U.S. Golf Association President Totten Heffelfinger, who asked her to bring her hula gear to next year's tournament...
...Honolulu papers, but there was no picket line. Six hundred showed up for the concert in Dillingham Hall (capacity: 850), and Gieseking brought them to their feet for encores after a sparkling program of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Debussy. He gave them four encores, accepted a lei of pink carnations...
...never happen in Rumania. What a country this is! There is nothing to be had, and nothing works properly. People have no respect. Why, in Rumania, now, if there should be trouble getting a shopkeeper's license, you just go to the Ministry and quietly pay 5,000 lei to some official. Here, nothing can be done...
...stood pretty Mrs. Ethel Akiyama, 35, a Multigraph operator who has been with Hawaiian Pineapple for 20 years. She wore a pineapple-patterned dress and a white carnation lei, and she was barefooted. Said she earnestly: "Business is a team of people. Some of the people are stockholders; some are employees . . . All do their part to make the business a success." Aloha-shirted Mitsuma Miyazaki, a union shop steward, cautioned: "Profits are not guaranteed . . . and so for future needs we have earmarked...
...Manhattan, CBS regretfully canceled its scheduled network commercial colorcasts but, under an experimental license, went ahead with color demonstrations. The outstanding show this week featured Arthur Godfrey, wearing a carnation lei, strumming his ukulele and looking fit, freckled but not especially redhaired. Though the show was strictly noncommercial, Godfrey got in an adroit plug for one of his sponsors-Chesterfield...