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...morning of Dec. 7, 1941, a Sunday, the only working newsman at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin was Editor Riley H. Allen. Allen was at his desk at 6, as usual, following a habit of years. Just one hour and 55 minutes later, as the first wave of Japanese bombers swept over Pearl Harbor, Allen had the biggest exclusive of his life. Over at the rival Advertiser, then the only Sunday paper in town, the presses were out of action with a mechanical breakdown. Star-Bulletin Editor Allen, routing an emergency staff from bed, weaving stories from wire dispatches and eyewitness...
Died. Joseph Rider Farrington. 56, since 1942 Hawaii's delegate to Congress and chief proponent of Hawaiian statehood, president and publisher of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...first Hawaiian newsman to win a Nieman fellowship, Lawrence K. Nakatsuka, is assistant city editor of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Hawaii's largest daily and a staunch exponent of that island's statehood...
...working on the paper at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, and the Star-Bulletin was the first paper to put out an on-the-scene war extra...
...reporter, Newark News; William F. Freehoff. Jr. editor, Kingsport (Tenn.) News, Joseph Givando, reporter, Denver Post: John M. Harrison, associate editor, Winston Salem Sentinel: Robert W. P. Martin, war correspondent for Columbia Broadcasting System, Korea: Charles Molony, Washington bureau. Associated Press: Lawrence K. Nakatsuka, assistant city editor, Honolulu Star-Bulletin; John L. Steele, Washington bureau, United Press: and Kevin R. Wallace, reporter, San Francisco Chronicle...