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Like a "dope in shining armor" (his own description), a young man with a broken nose and a pair of dark glasses bounded into Manila's City Hall and plumped himself down at the mayor's desk. The broken nose, a football injury, belonged to Arsenio H. Lacson, 40, the ribald, rambunctious reformer whom Manilans chose as their first elected mayor in 1951. Lacson was back at his desk last week after 73 days' suspension from office by Filipino President Elpidio Quirino...
...Quixote who trod on Quirino's toes by pushing his investigations of municipal graft embarrassingly close to the presidential palace, Lacson likes to boast that he "calls a spade a spade, and if necessary, a dirty, stinking, lousy shovel." Not surprisingly, it was his tongue (which a Manila hostess once suggested he should send to the laundry) that got him into trouble. Lacson was sued for libel-and gladly suspended by President Quirino-after he publicly denounced his deputy chief of police as "ignorant, an ignoramus and incompetent...
...rafters, and tarantulas crept out of cracks in the floor. She learned to know a lot of worlds: Washington, the Army schools, the rainy Northwest. In 1936, when Ike served as assistant to General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines, Mamie found herself living amid rococo splendor in Manila. The next hop took her to an apartment in San Francisco...
Metropolitan Opera Soprano Helen Traubel arrived in Manila knowing full well that mangoes give her hives, but nevertheless indulged in the tempting forbidden fruit. Result: a severe rash which closed both eyes for two days and forced the postponement of a scheduled concert at Bacolod City...
Died. The Most Rev. Gabriel M. Reyes, 60, archbishop of Manila, first (1934) and only Filipino archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church; after long illness; in Washington...