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...British accent to prove it), he actually had his only known brush with higher education at the University of Hawaii, was obliged to resign from the army in 1943 "for the good of the service." His most notable accomplishments since: a two-year stretch in the Philippines' New Bilibid Prison and a four-year sentence to Leavenworth-both for passing bad checks. In between, he had acted as genealogy columnist for the Honolulu Advertiser under the byline of High Chief Kapiikauinamoku...
Then there was the question of paper: our first consignment from stateside-40 tons-was mysteriously shunted from the sidewalk in front of the printers to Bilibid Prison and then to a windowless warehouse near the Pasig River. When we finally got most of it back our Manila staff took turns guarding it day and night; it was worth $75,000 on the black market...
...greying President Sergio Osmeña went back to his liberated homeland with a burden of personal sorrow-war had brought death to three of his eight sons.* Last week, in Washington, he publicly acknowledged an even deeper personal tragedy. Two of his sons are in Manila's Bilibid Prison, charged with collaborating with the Japanese...
...story of one of World War II's most satisfying turnabouts came out last week. Its hero is Dr. Theodore Stevenson, 41, doctor at Manila's Santo Tomás internment camp until the Japanese threw him into Bilibid prison for insisting on the word "malnutrition" on an internee's death certificate (TIME...
When General MacArthur's forces rescued Dr. Stevenson from Bilibid and put him back to work, his first patient was the Japanese lieutenant who had jailed him. The man needed an operation for a bullet wound. Dr. Stevenson, a Presbyterian medical missionary in peacetime, performed the operation successfully, with all his skill...