Hawaii
1969: Sevey
chalks up an error
in Flacks vs. Hacks gameLOTS of folks are calling Bob Sevey "Maury" these days. Seems the day that the L.A. Dodgers' Maury Wills let a ground ball go through his legs to blow a ball game, Sevey also let one slip twixt his feet in the annual Hacks vs. Flacks game at the Press Club picnic. His team won, despite his boot ... Though Mayor Fasi's unshakable resolve makes it unlikely that Queen's Surf can be saved, you can save your "Save Queen's Surf" button. The original 1,500 were quickly snatched up and have become collectors' items. (Sept. 23, 1969) ...
AFTER the AFL-CIO's COPE convention, letters went out to all candidates who'd been endorsed. A letter to Tadao Beppu said (due to secretarial error) that he'd been endorsed "for the office of governor." The House speaker got a chuckle out of the letter and dropped a note to the AFL-CIO's Walter Kupau stating he wasn't seeking the governorship, but was "just a local yokel running for the lowly State House." COPE endorsed him anyway. (Sept. 29, 1970) ...
HOLY Big Mackerel: When McDonald's franchise owners gather in Waikiki for their convention Oct. 16-23, they'll be occupying some 1,000 rooms and over 100 suites at the Sheraton-Waikiki, all of which has the hotel's director of sales, Ed Remington, smiling and saying "cheeseburger" a lot. Fittingly enough, the hotel is just across the street from the Waikiki McDonald's, in case any of the conventioneers get hungry. And to tempt them, the hotel is constructing a 15-foot-high Big Mac for display in the lobby. (Sept. 28, 1971) ...
FORMER Gov. Bill Quinn attended a luncheon in honor of Hawaiian Open champ John Schlee at the Waialae Country Club and when he learned he could play a round with Schlee after the lunch, he called his secretary, canceled all appointments, donned his Bermudas and headed out on the links. (Sept. 27, 1973) ... Adman Jim Winpenny won more than pennies the other day. Furious when he was cut off by an operator while using a pay phone, he slammed down the receiver and out came $3.45 in quarters, dimes and nickels. "Made my whole day," said a suddenly calm Winpenny. (Sept. 23, 1979) ...
THE Citizens Against Noise newsletter tells about the Waikiki resident who complained to no avail that a tour bus was being parked below her window with the motor idling for as long as 45 minutes. Her solution to the problem: She tiptoed onto the vacant bus and broke a raw egg on the driver's seat and hasn't had a problem with unattended buses since. They play rough, these CAN members. (Sept.. 24, 1982) ...
WHEN a Waialae Iki resident called the Board of Water Supply to report a lawn being watered improperly during the current water shortage, he was well-received until he mentioned that the culprit was the board's own substation. His water was shut off (figuratively) with the curt reply, "The watering rules don't apply to us." (Does this have anything to do with trickle-down economics?) (Sept. 26, 1984) ... Joe Moore told a story on himself on his "Moore Mozart" program on KHPR Saturday. He admitted for those who might have missed it that in his late night newscast on Channel 2 the night before, he'd reported that the USS Missouri as leaving Honolulu and heading "for Austria." It was going Down Under, of course, but Moore has this thing about Mozart, you see, and Vienna must have been on his mind. (Can't you just picture the Mighty Mo sailing down the Danube?) (Sept. 22, 1986) ...
IT was hard to believe yesterday when I was told my old boss and friend Hobe Duncan had died in his sleep in China. Hobe and I followed similar paths from Iowa to Hawaii and eventually to the Star-Bulletin where he held a variety of jobs, most notably executive editor. He was a delightful guy but would be the first to argue a point if he felt he was right, which he often did. He often was, too. My lasting regret is that when I got a letter from him from Beijing where he was spending a year working for a Chinese news agency, I never got around to answering it. This is inadequate, but goodbye boss, I'll miss you (Sept. 23, 1988) ....
The Week That Was recalls events culled from Dave Donnelly's three-dot columns over the past 30 years. Donnelly continues to write his Hawaii column Tuesdays through Fridays in the Star-Bulletin.
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
The Week That Was recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns.Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com