Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Singapore's Bukit Timah race track the British wet their upper lips with gin & bitters and kept them stiff even when Miss Papillon, a 70-1 long shot, romped home in the third race. That was bad, but the news from across the Johore Causeway to the Malayan mainland was worse...
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...
Schoolteachers sometimes let go. That's what Clara Inter did. She was a demure young Hawaiian schoolmarm, teaching English grammar to youngsters from the plantations. One day, while singing with a native chorus for some mainland tourists, Clara impulsively stepped out of line and let fly a few lyrics of The Cockeyed Mayor of Kaunakakai, She followed it up with a naughty burlesque of the hula...
Engagements on the mainland followed. San Francisco thought Hattie was a scream; so did the patrons of Manhattan's sophisticated St. Regis Hotel. During the war, Hattie acted with Jinx Falkenberg and Betty Grable in a couple of sarong-draped movies. In the U.S., she also made some recordings and discarded her third husband (she is currently unmarried). Last year, between mainland triumphs, she went home and took to the air. With a disc jockey program on Honolulu's KPOA and an amateur hour on rival station KGMB, she registered her first solid hit with the natives...
...approved statehood for Hawaii. Next month the Senate will send Oregon's Guy Cordon to make another one of several congressional on-the-spot investigations. When the Senate takes a vote in its regular session next year, democracy will get an acid test. But it will be the mainland's democracy which gets the test. For Hawaii is the most democratic area under the U.S. flag...