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Hawaii Dave Donnelly |
1973: Busy ‘bees’
help plant 80,000 trees
for Arbor DayCREATOR Leonard Freeman and Jack Lord smiling brightly over the latest national Nielsen survey, which shows "Hawaii Five-O" No. 5 among all shows and the top program on CBS ... A plot worthy of "Five-0" was unveiled in two lines of copy in the personal section of the classified ads yesterday: "Shirley, thanks for my husband's gifts. Mrs. B. Soon to be Miss." (Nov. 5, 1970) ...
POSTCARD in yesterday's mail from Steve Boyle in New Guinea: "There's still headhunting areas here -- you wonder about the New Guinea Tourist Board theme, 'Take a visitor home for dinner.'" (Nov. 4, 1971) ... Many bustling bees (or should we say B's) behind the scene in the just completed Arbor Day, which saw 80,000 new trees planted. Working on the project were Bill Bigelow, Bob Busch, Larry Beck, Winnie Buckley, Van Beazle, Hal Breigs, Norman Bezona and Duane Black. B-lieve it or not. (Nov. 6, 1973) ...
A PROUD grandma called to say that the little tike who was singled out here for stealing the show in HCT's "The King & I" is actually only 3 years old and not 5, which was a guess. And her name is Mahealani Richardson. This is her second appearance in the column -- she was the little girl who was kissed on the cheek by none other than Wayne Hays in Washington, the day the Elizabeth Ray scandal broke in the papers. (Nov. 4, 1976) ...
PUNS and Sue T. Sue Teehan, sales manager for Waianae Cablevision, has to cope with the verbal jousts of two colleagues, Eric Uptegrove and Ernie Longcore -- we're not making up these names either. They constantly come up with wordplay to keep Sue on her feet. Indeed, perhaps they could put out their own dictionary. To wit: McDonald's Space Laser -- Ronald Ray Gun; Moral Support -- Chastity Belt; Feline Stretcher -- Kitty Litter; Proletariat Sports Jacket -- Class Action Suit; Soused Sparrow -- Tequila Mockingbird. 'Nuff already. (Nov. 2, 1980) ...
THE manager of Molokai's Pau Hana Inn, Peter Suyat, will be welcoming Melveen Leed for a one-night engagement Friday night. It'll be a homecoming of sorts for Melveen, a former Miss Molokai. (Nov. 5. 1980) ... The Post Office must love restaurateur Rudy Biale. Once again he's sending Christmas cards to all his patrons worldwide, just as he's done since Christmas 1948. He began with 100 cards, and this year the list totals 6,000. Hats off to Malia Long, who keeps the list current and personally licks the stamps. Let's see, at 30 cents apiece ... And you thought YOU had a lot of cards to send. (Nov. 3, 1981) ...
OFFICER Ernest Lee, of the Honolulu Police Department, made a Variety Club School youngster very happy when he traced a city bus on which the boy had left his lunch box, and brought it to him at the school. The youngster wrote to thank Officer Lee: "I was sad and scared when I left it on the bus but when you brought it to my school I was so happy. You are a very nice policeman. Thank you for helping me and making that day a happy one." That's one letter the officer should have framed. (Nov. 3, 1982) ...
RESTAURATEUR Nick Nickolas has agreed to take over Chez Paul on Maui Thursday, but just for the night. He'll be preparing a feed for pal Ray Floyd and other golfers there for the Kapalua golf tourney. The reason Nick had to step in was that Chez Paul owner Lucien Charbonnier took his chef and head waiter to Hong Kong for a vacation but told Nickolas to be his guest. (Nov. 5, 1985) ...
FUNNY line in People magazine: "How do you attract a yuppie stockbroker's attention?" Answer: "Hey, waiter." (Nov. 4, 1987) ... Investment advisor Ron Kent, telling reporters about his new Leahi tax-free income trust fund, mentioned that he's keeping his hand in woodcarving as well. One of his works appears in the American Craft Museum's 1988 calendar for January. One person recollected that Kent used to turn out wooden eggs as well. "I still do the eggs," said Kent, to which a wag corrected, "You mean you still lathe the eggs." Ouch, said Kent. (Nov. 3, 1987) ...
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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
