Word: baguio
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...gulf black columns of smoke rose. The U.S. Army had burned its gasoline dumps. It fell back in orderly fashion through villages where the Filipino civilians cheered and showed the "V" with their fingers. The Jap threw an armored spearhead east toward the islands' summer capital at Baguio. U.S. forces withdrew to save damage to the Philippines' most beautiful city...
...blows at the Philippines were struck, not at Manila, but at Davao in the extreme south, where a great part of the Philippines' Japanese population (29,000) lives. The aircraft tender Langley was hit. Up north the Japanese bombed the Army's Fort Stotsenburg, the summer capital Baguio, then dropped leaflets promising the Filipinos that they would be liberated quickly...
With the help of his wife, a Viennese dancer named Trudle Dubsky, Zipper introduced Manila to the latest thing in modern ballet. Between seasons he took Manila's orchestra to the mile-high Luzon resort-town of Baguio, where it played symphonies for vacationing Manilans while puzzled Igorots in G strings looked on from the sidelines. Zipper rehearses his men for 90 hours before each concert, sometimes has to teach them how to play their parts. But he claims that his musicians can grasp a trick of technique quicker than many a more thoroughly trained Occidental. Says...
...Islands' population. Its reserve totals 50-75,000 more, all with five and a half months of MacArthur training. Its officers are young, for the Army was started with no backlog from an officer class. Most of them are trained in the Philippine Military Academy at Baguio, fathered by MacArthur on the pattern of West Point. Many a U.S. regular is doubtful of the Philippine Army's youngsters. Few armies in modern times have been developed so rapidly, with such an accent on youth. But Lieut. General Douglas MacArthur, U.S.A., thinks his boys are good...
...that keeps him bounding into the limelight, he has kept first place among Island politicos for 21 years. But when the war broke out, Quezon was sick. U.S. observers were worried by his silence, his brooding on his yacht, his long rest-cure treatment at the health resort of Baguio in the hills. After his lifelong fight for Philippine independence, it seemed stranger still that he did not respond to the gigantic world struggle for democracy, with all that it meant to the independence of small nations...