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...miles of mountain and malarial jungle, were able to tie down a large number of enemy units, kill 7,000 Japanese troops, and secure intelligence of the highest value. And here is one modern guerrilla insurrection that was led by Americans-for this is the story of Colonel Wendell Fertig and his men in the struggle for Mindanao during the occupation of the Philippines by Japanese troops...
...Fertig and his men were rank amateurs at the start. After Corregidor fell, U.S. units left on Mindanao were ordered to surrender. A few officers and men refused to obey that order. By twos and threes they slipped into the jungle, as did several American civilians and some Filipino soldiers and constabulary. At the same time the more warlike local tribes, including the Moslem Moros, whose mountains the Americans had more or less pacified, dug their weapons out of the thatch and resumed their ancestral feuding, bushwhacking Japanese as a useful sideline. But there was only hostility among the rival...
...them. Among other things he also objected to putting out the "kind of magazine in which McCarthy is a sacred character." In October Hazlitt, Newsweek contributing editor and onetime (1934-46) New York Times editorial writer, resigned, though he had the backing of other director-stockholders.* Said Director Lawrence Fertig, World-Telegram and Sun economic analyst: "The Freeman became intemperate . . . It should have convinced by logic and reason, with less shrillness, less direct hysteria...
...Wrote Fertig: ". . . This advertisement was illustrated by a Gargantuan, vicious-looking creature, dressed in formal coat, silk hat, wing collar and white vest adorned by a huge gold chain . . . supposed to represent 'old line management.' It is a replica of the stock character employed by Communists to represent Capital. ... It tells the American public that everyone who manages our railroads (and, by association of ideas, all owners of capital) is cruel, lazy and indecent ... pariahs feeding off the poor laboring man. Such a concept, as it gains ground in the mass mind, allows for no exceptions. Ironically enough...
Tycoon Robert Ralph Young, who takes as much pleasure in writing his own advertisements as in gobbling up more trackage, got a blow last week where it hurt. A Manhattan adman named Lawrence Fertig, who writes once a week for the New York World-Telegram financial page, criticized Bob Young's latest ad ("Let's Wake Up Rip Van Winkle...