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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soggy Pancakes. About 475 miles from Honolulu the Diesel gave up altogether, and at that point passengers discovered that one of the two lifeboats was loaded with cases of soda pop. The other had a hole in it. The passengers prayed; Captain E. M. Nicol radioed the U.S. Coast Guard. Almost five days later, the Pasado was towed into Honolulu. As she approached the harbor the stove blew up and splashed its soggy batch of pancakes against the overhead...
...they shuffled toward the railway station. The trains they hoped to take to the south never came. A soldier guarding a ferry building watched the routed men and said: "They have been coming back all night. I don't know what's going on, but I'm scared...
...been for the war you would have had to accept the traditional way." Little Chieko Tsuchida took up the argument. "My grandfather," she said,-"wants to pick a husband for me. I am opposed to an arranged marriage. My character won't permit it. I'm simply not the quiet or the obedient sort." Said Kanno: "She's an example of the otemba type...
...Homburgs unabashedly lined up to get some chocolates. At one stall, a mustachioed army major ordered four Mars bars, gravely tucked them into a folded Sunday Times and marched away. One Londoner stormed: "It's good to have something off the ration, but I'm sure a lot of people would rather have a pound of butter." But on the great day few of Britain's kids would have agreed with...
...refugee from Broadway (Sunny, 1925, The Little Show, 1929) who was finding life in Hollywood exactly to his taste (see CINEMA). Being a star again, he confided to an interviewer, was "fun, a lot of fun, and I love it. There's no use pretending I'm a modest fellow . . . Some day I shall write a song called I Fascinate...