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1970: Miniskirts causing
major drop-off in productivityJUST when we were about to announce the universal acceptance of miniskirts again (with the exception of Women's Wear Daily, which has made the mini a cause celebre and itself an object of ridicule) comes a report in The Wall Street Journal that a management consultant has found that minis lower office efficiency. A glance, says the consultant, wastes one second, while a double take takes up four seconds. But to get more of the distractions (where mine are involved) involve longer observations that average 69 seconds. Vive le distraction. (Oct. 14, 1970) ...
IT sounds like the name that author Max Shulman might make up, but a gentleman named Dinwiddie Fuhrmeister, who is promotion manager of the Spokane Spokesman-Review, is in town to attend the meeting of he Western Region of the International Newspaper Promotion Association. (Oct. 14, 1971) ...
WINDWARDITES are making plans to celebrate Kailua town's 50th anniversary next year. Seems like only yesterday (to coin a phrase) we used to drive down the old winding Pali Road into practically virgin territory, and you can't hardly find that kind anymore. (Oct. 18, 1973) ...
MY Hong Kong visit was interrupted by three days in Manila to see and report back on the "Thrilla in Manila." Localite Bill Miller, a V.P. of the World Boxing Association, was on hand for the festivities, as was Bobby Lee, another WBA official from Honolulu ... Nearly everyone I met asked, "Do you know Corky Trinidad?" Told that I worked on the same newspaper, instant friendship was established. (Oct. 14, 1975) ...
JUST try to convince a wife whose hubby is glued to the TV watching the World Series that diamonds are a girls best friend! ... The Aloha Week parade was a smashing success, according to a certain 5-year-old and his crusty father. We particularly liked the high school bands, which were excellent. But all could take a lesson from the drummers of Roosevelt, who established the greatest jazz marching beat you've ever heard. That, and the swaying of the sousaphones, led to our ranking Roosevelt No. 1. (Oct. 17, 1975) ...
AUTHOR Ed Sheehan, whose book, "Days of '41: Pearl Harbor Remembered," is now in bookshops, says he's never met anyone capable of the memory who didn't recall exactly what he was doing when Pearl Harbor was attacked. On the other hand, he says, hardly anyone remembers a thing about the day before, but he does, and reports on it in his book. Odd that a man with the knack of detailed recall should autograph a personal copy to me and date it, "October 1967." (Oct. 14, 1976) ...
FORMER University of Hawaii football star Levi Stanley never got to see the exciting UH game Saturday night: He's in traction at Queen's. After moving 250-pound linemen around for years in football contests, Levi injured his back moving a mere desk! (Oct. 18, 1977) ...
EX-LOCALITE Bob Sandla may have to coat himself with Man-Tan before taking over as G.M. of the Florida Symphony Orchestra. The Orlando Sentinel headlined a story about him, "Hawaiian to Manage Symphony." (Oct. 16, 1984) ...
WHEN Francis Morgan held a celebrity pancake cookoff downtown yesterday to introduce the Hamakua Sugar Company's Hawaii Cane Syrups, there were pancakes galore left over. Rather than let them go to waste, Morgan saw that they were taken to Rev. Claude du Teil's Institute for Human Services as a breakfast treat for the street people who use IHS as a headquarters. Nice break from peanut butter sandwiches ... Hope I'm not giving away a secret, but the circus will be the theme at a Halloween party at Colours (formerly the Bistro) this year, and I hear the reason is that co-owner Mike Pirics has always wanted to appear as a "bearded lady." (Oct. 15, 1985) ...
TOKYU Hotels International exec V.P. Bob Rinker, who stands about 6 foot 8 inches, was seen talking eyeball to eyeball with Daiei (USA) Inc. V.P. Moritaka Adachi at the Japan Marketing for Success seminar at the Ilikai this week. It didn't hurt that Adachi was standing on an 18-inch-high platform. (Oct. 18, 1985) ...
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Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968. The Week That Was runs Sundays and recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns. Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com
