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Arthur Lyman was born on the island of Kauai, the youngest of eight children of a Hawaiian mother and a father of French, Belgian and Chinese extraction. When Arthur's father, a riveter, lost his eyesight in an accident, the family moved to the island of Oahu and settled in Makiki, a section of Honolulu. Arthur's introduction to music was on a toy marimba. Each day after school, Arthur's father put some old Benny Goodman records on the phonograph and locked Arthur in his room with orders to "play along with the records...
Popping up out of nowhere, a mysterious "global combine" proposed to buy five Sheraton Corp. hotels on Waikiki Beach and 5,400 acres of choice land on Oahu owned by shrewd Chinn Ho, 58, most meteoric of Hawaii's new millionaires (TIME, May 5, 1961). Total price on the package deal (including a few odd lots from other landholders): $62 million...
Juncos & Jaegers. In San Francisco, a seventh-grader named Arthur Wang found a stray Slate-Colored Junco (rarely seen west of the Sierras), while elsewhere in the bay area his colleagues registered the Eastern Phoebe, the Pomarine Jaeger, the Hermit Warbler and the Saw-Whet Owl. From Oahu, Hawaii, a dedicated birder named Grenville Hatch reported sightings by her group of 500 Red-Footed Boobies, 452 Frigate-Birds, 433 Arctic Golden Plovers and one Long-Billed Dowitcher...
...formed Capi tal Investment Co., three years later made his first big killing at the expense of Castle & Cooke, one of Hawaii's conservative "big five" companies. He coolly raised Castle & Cooke's $800,000 bid for the 9,000 acres of a defunct sugar company on Oahu. Four years later, after parceling off only 40% of the land to small farmers, Ho had collected $3,000,000 more than he had paid for the acreage. Ho is saving the balance of the land for a development that he thinks will be worth $25 million...
...outmaneuvered the Oahu Sugar Co. for 230 acres that it desperately wanted on the venerable Mark Robinson estate. The land controlled the irrigation track into the sugar company's fields, also the roads over which its cane-hauling trucks had to move. Ho extracted only an ounce of flesh when Oahu Sugar came to him after it had been outbid. "I could really have been tough on them," he says. "I could have sold for a $500,000 profit instead of only $150,000. But they'd never speak to me again, and this is a small town...