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...From Manila, for example, we heard from an original TIME reader, now a government official, who wrote: "Since its first issue to the present, I never missed a copy except during the dark period of our history of the Philippines when the Japanese occupied our country. During that period, my old copies that I had saved were inspirations for hope of final victory and freedom." From Sumatra, Reader B. Siregar wrote that he is a 30-year-old Indonesian student now taking an Australian correspondence course in civil engineering. To pay for the course, he began teaching his own class...
...Malolos in Bulacan Province, wan, frail President Elpidio Quirino pleaded with the voters. "Give me another chance, if only to complete all the projects you want me to complete." In Manila, Ramon Magsaysay solicited votes in confident tones. "The Filipino people want back their self-respect, their sense of honor and their dignity. They can have these things back only by replacing those who have taken them away...
...Philippine folksongs are prize compositions in a contest sponsored by the Glee Club among native composers. They are saturated with harmonies which must have originated in a Manila barbershop. There are some interesting effects when the lower voices chant monosyllables against a tenor melody, but the overall result often seemed too much like an M-G-M sound track. Choruses by Gilbert and Sullivan showed the Glee Club to best advantage. The all-important diction was perfectly clear and the piano accompaniment of Lawrence Berman '56 and William Lindahl '55 added to the zest of the singing...
...incoming prisoners reacted to this clear attempt at intimidation with a mixture of fear and defiance. Many of them refused to answer the roll, tore off their Manila name tags and kept their fists tightly clenched to forestall fingerprinting. Gradually they grew more bellicose. Compounds bristled with South Korean and Chinese Nationalist flags. Barrages of stones and curses descended on glum-faced Communist observers...
...experimental United Church was organized in Manila in 1924. During World War II, the occupying Japanese forced all Protestant bodies to join it for convenience in dealing with them. Though this shotgun partnership dissolved after V-J day, the United Church of Christ in the Philippines was formed again on a more solid footing in 1948, is now the largest purely Protestant body in the country. Its constituents: Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Church of Christ, Evangelical United Brethren and Philippine Methodists - 100,000-odd adults in 790-odd congregations...