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Navy Scrap BookBy Lew Barton. EM3CHawaii—Bcautilul land of cn-chantment. singing guitars and swaying palm trees' The landwhere pretty maids parade I ho streets, chid only in skirts made of grass.If you are planning t« \ isit Hawaii to experience all thisdroam-woild henutv vmi .m-fc %sinker. Heautilul yes. Lnchuid-ment not so I could tell itSinging guitars- -yes, on the radioSwaying palms admitted. Butthousands ol pretty girls in grassskirts -pitooey!In the tust place the only pretty maids I\e seen wen* gu NIrom the states. The others—well, my buddy, Jim Lemhan tromIManhatten, New York, summed itii|) m these words We use ’« m like these at home to scare the (lows out of the gaiuens.** (C‘on-ticicntially I don’t know ot ansplate in Manhatten where Lcni.y might have a garden, that i unless he planted it in I lout ipots.)Back to gias.s skirts don't litwe it. The only girls you see in glass skiits aie in shows uni*.-* you do as Lenny and I uni \\\gave one halt-a-huck to pose v •us m a grass skut IMy pictuii I sent to my wile who wasn't tile least Jealous altei seeing *,i. in.ud I hat in prool enough'At tei heaimg Kan .veil '!'I hec” (lets speak Kngli.shi u '• is supposed to tall u\ei you .*•*•which you are hound to tel,, some day I letui tied Tw ne ntact But it w, . purely iL uelt* s idea not mme. Am1mean the untie with tla tall tand the whiskeis on his chin \ ou call ha\ e it I* or jjp,Hobeson county n .» plenlv ;« substitute l»n the whole ot Haw.ill take Lumber iiver in pre.‘!t enct* t»t Waikiki Beat ii. and • t don't mind. Andrew Lot k.*ser\ ice station Ml take in iot HonoluluJust U d me to it’
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Lumberton Robesonian
Lumberton, North Carolina, US
Wed, Oct 24, 1945
Page 8
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