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Hawaiian Eye (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Newest of the private peepers are a couple of uninsular operators named Tracy Steele and Tom Lopaka. Their very first caper, Malihini Holiday, traces a murder plot all the way from London to Waikiki...
THIS week's other color story, in National Affairs, followed a more usual pattern. TIME'S editors decided that they wanted a spread that would get behind the familiar scenes of Diamond Head and Waikiki Beach, chose for the job the skilled Werner Stoy, who, after 19 years in the islands, is recognized as Hawaii's top photographer. With Associate Editor Alvin Josephy, Stoy traveled to every one of the major islands, concentrated on getting pictures that show how Hawaiians live. The result: a fresh, close look at the people of the U.S.'s 50th state...
...fresh capital and nien with big ideas. Pink-cheeked Millionaire Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser jolted the Big Five by plunking down $18 million for an apartment-hotel resort called "Hawaiian Village," starting a $350 million "dream city" in Oahu's Kokohead area. Sheraton Hotels took over four splendid Waikiki Beach hotels, including the Royal Hawaiian and Moana, and made them pay. The venerable Bank of Hawaii brought in a new president from California, Rudy Peterson, and Peterson in turn brought with him such surefire mainland business-getters as charge accounts for credit loans and a factoring system...
After convalescing for three months on his Virginia farm and in his Manhattan apartment from lung-cancer surgery, TV-Radio Impresario Arthur Godfrey, 55, paused in San Francisco on his airborne way to Hawaii. A voluntary exile from show business since his operation, Godfrey will tape some Waikiki Beach sequences in Honolulu for release on CBS-TV this fall...
...Sheraton Corp. took its first step off the North American continent last week. For $18 million, Matson Navigation Co. agreed to sell to Sheraton its four Honolulu hotels: the pink Royal Hawaiian, the porticoed Moana, the seven-year-old SurfRider, and the eleven-story Princess Kaiulani-all on famed Waikiki beach. Sheraton, second only to Hilton Hotels Corp., thus got 1,056 more rooms, boosted its total...