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...Honolulu Advertiser's Bob Krauss is a seasoned journalistic stunt man and the best-read columnist in Hawaii. Once, to test the legendary hospitality of Hawaiians, he walked for a week around the island of Oahu carrying no money, food or blankets, yet was well fed and housed. Krauss's latest stunt grew out of a column in the Advertiser (circ. 68,548) in which he twitted housewives who complain about their hard work "so their husbands will feel guilty enough to do the dishes." When a reader challenged him to try his own hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bachelor in the Kitchen | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...Enright decided that it was erythema infectiosum, literally, "infectious blushing," also called fifth disease.* The Kaufmans were not alone. Soon hundreds of fresh cases were reported, most from "the big island" but many also from Oahu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Infectious Blushing | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...Charles Mapes, Bobo showed up at a big stone castle on Lake Tahoe, where an even richer lady, Elsinore Machris Gillilan, a bride of 70 who inherited $20 million from her previous oil-drenched husband, was tossing a small, make-believe Hawaiian luau (a beach wassail where revelers cry "Oahu!"). There was no poi or okolehau, but there were oodles of orchids and leis, flown in from the Islands, and, ignoring Tahoe's sparkling waters, lackeys gassed up a swimming pool by spiking it with champagne. Mrs. Gillilan's newly rich bridegroom, Ray, 60, wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 16, 1954 | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

Edward C. Bursk, Jr. of Cohasset, Mass. and Leverett; Eliot D. Hawkins of New York City and Eliot; Hay K. Maesaka of Oahu, Hawaii and Lowell; Anthony S. Patton of Arlington, Mass., and Winthrop; and F. Harvey Popell of Brookline and Winthrop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '54 Chooses Tulenko, Culver, Hardy As Class Marshals in Heavy Voting | 3/26/1954 | See Source »

...Lanikai, Oahu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1953 | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

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