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...Boss of Corregidor." The witnesses, most of them fellow prisoners of Provoo, pictured him swaggering about the prison cave on Corregidor with a riding crop, toadying to the Japanese and terrorizing his fellow prisoners. As soon as the Japanese arrived, one witness testified. Provoo "made a deep bow" (the witness demonstrated it stiffly in court) and. in fluent Japanese, offered them his services. Thereafter, according to the witnesses' stories, Provoo worked for the Japanese as a combination of bully boy, informer and mess sergeant. He served them tea, provided them with liquor, whipped up three-layer cakes even...
...hard, often frustrating work. At first, the Marines landed from a battleship's liberty boats, often in water over their heads because the coxswains refused to take the chance of scraping paint on the beach. But as time wore on, the first ramp-bow boats appeared, ancestor of the nautical monsters of World...
...Brownell's crew, Bill Newlan rowed bow; 2, Charlie Higginson; 3, Allen Chandler; 4, Bob Monks; 5, Pete Simonds; 6, Phil DuBois; 7, John Atherton, Brownell at stroke. Allen Lefkowitz...
This display of armed might was Britain's answer to the Mau Mau (rhymes with bow-wow), the African secret society that threatens to wipe out Kenya's 30,000 whites (TIME, Oct. 27). Part land hunger, part savage revolution against the domineering white man and the bewildering 20th century, the Mau Mau's blind fury could, if left unchecked, turn the Crown Colony of Kenya into another Malaya. Once pooh-poohed as mere "press exaggeration," the Mau Mau have already mutilated scores of whites and "loyal" blacks, with their favorite weapon, the panga-a long, machete...
...Social Relations department has taken over a building at 9 Bow St., formerly used as housing space for married undergraduates. It will be used as a focal point for research in Social Relations...