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...puppet president of Japan's Republic of the Philippines, squat, bespectacled Jose P. Laurel lived in uneasy luxury. Peasant-born and Yale-educated, he occupied Manila's ornate Malacanan Palace, once the home of Manuel Quezon. He smoked special cigars with his name printed on the band. After guerrillas wounded him while he was golfing at the Wack Wack Country Club, he was provided with an armed guard of 600 men. In return for this, José Laurel-who had been a respected Manila attorney and a member of the Philippine Supreme Court -did the bidding...
...General Patton himself, watching from the stands, stepped down from a gold laurel leaf-draped dais to kiss a corporal's hand. The recipient of this attention was muscular Corporal Brady Walker of Provo, Utah, who had just hurled a discus 142 ft. 9 in., to lead Patton's men to victory...
...easy byplay between Kelly's rock-solid acting, which carries the show and is as sure as anything in pictures, and Sinatra's gently amateurish pseudo-goofiness, with its engaging echoes of Stan Laurel...
...only member of the commission who never cashed the 10,000-peso check which the Japs sent as an honorarium. (He says the check was burned with other papers when his house was destroyed in the battle for Manila.) He was appointed to the cabinet of puppet President Jose Laurel, but did not attend its meetings. U.S. officers who stayed behind during the occupation give Manuel Roxas the highest rating. Said one: "He was the overall spiritual leader of the guerrillas." Many Filipinos idolize him the way they once did Manuel Quezon...
...laurel, the palms and the paean, the breasts of the nymphs in the brake...