The Girls Of Hawaii

August, 1961

a paean to the winsome wahines of our elysian archipelagoIn the History of man's quest for romance and adventure -- which has taken him in search of fountains of youth and cities of gold -- perhaps no dream has been pursued longer, nor more longingly, than the vision of a palmfringed, white-stranded South Sea island thronged with beckoning Tondelayos. On January 20, 1778, when Captain James Cook, in command of two British four-masters, put ashore on a verdant Pacific archipelago which he called...

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