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...Philadelphia last week, the Pennsylvania Academy welcomed the city to its 148th annual art exhibition and handed out kudos for the best work in the show. The prize for the top painting went to an old & familiar name, Abstract Muralist Rico Lebrun, for a panel from his dark and angry Crucifixion (TIME, March 19, 1951). But the top sculpture winner was a surprise: a Roman Catholic priest who teaches art at Notre Dame...
Fanned by a stiff wind from the Bay, the flames drove the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 148th Infantry (part of Ohio's 37th Division ) back from the Pasig River. The flames licked around Bilibid Prison, forcing evacuation of hundreds of civilian internees. All night the city was wreathed in fire. Next morning, as the sun burned coppery red through the pall of smoke, the two battalions of the 148th picked their way through debris and embers to the Pasig again...
...position with heavy stone walls was turned into a strong point. Churches suited the Japs perfectly. One churchyard fortress had to be burned out with artillery, mortar fire and flamethrowers. The centuries-old walled city, the Intramuros, was a natural fortress. Colonel Lawrence K. ("Red") White, of the 148th, saw no hope of saving most of Manila's famous buildings. Where the Japs had artillery, he would use artillery, refusing to send unsupported infantry against guns. In one church, two machine guns were found beneath the altar. The 148th took heavy casualties: ambulances clanged monotonously...
Private Leland Earl joined the Washington National Guard two years ago. He wanted to know how the big guns worked. When his regiment (the 148th Field Artillery) was mobilized last fall, Private Earl was ordered to report in Seattle. But he was selling magazines in New Jersey, got his orders too late to join the regiment before it sailed for Hawaii. Because he was technically mobilized and liable to arrest, Private Earl prudently presented himself at Fort...
...Hong Kong. These ardent readers feared that the Old Farmer's 1940 issue would be its last. After the death of its fourth copyright owner, Bostonian Carroll J. Swan, in 1935, Little, Brown & Co. agreed to publish the almanac for five years. Its contract ended with the 148th edition. But this week the 149th was scheduled to come out bright & shiny as ever, kitchen-nail hole and all. Its new publisher: shrewd, shaggy Robb Sagendorph, Boston social registerite and Harvardman ('22), who publishes and edits the monthly Yankee, at Dublin...