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...shots are being fired in the present Battle of Italy; but if the Communists win Italy in a free election, that will have an effect equal to the fall of Singapore and Manila in World War II. It would take years and billions of dollars and thousands of lives to retrieve the loss of Italy...
Dewey's victory at Manila was re-enacted on the flooded Garden floor (small battleships were bombarded by men in the rafters). There the first U.S. automobile show was held. There John L. Sullivan and many another old-timer fought...
...lack of practice and experience is quite serious," Bennett admitted, "but all our men have played the game before," First teamer Sandy Calhoun played for a Manila team in 1941 and also for Andover while Emil Van Peborgh got some experience in the Argentine. Bennett has playing time behind him at the Squadron "A" indoor area in New York. On the second string, Tim White, brother of two former Harvard players, played in Cleveland; Tom Calhoun, brother of Sandy, also rode in Manila; Emery Houghton wielded the mallet in Arizona. "Unfortunately some of us haven't been on a horse...
...fattest architectural prizes: supervising the $31,000,000 building program for the University of California's Los Angeles campus. They had also won a contract to build a chain of four hotels for air travelers across the Pacific, starting with a $1,000,000 hotel at Manila. In all, Walt & Welt last week had contracts for $121,050,000 a backlog few U.S. architects can match. Like all their contracts, they had won last week's new business, as they have been winning it for years, by smooth salesmanship, a rising reputation for deftly mixing traditional and unorthodox...
Shusuke Wada was a nimble, hunchbacked interpreter nicknamed "Running Wada" by the American prisoners he escorted from Manila to Japan. Once, from the steaming hold of the Oryoku Maru came the desperate cry: "For God's sake, Mr. Wada, we must have water! The men are dying. They're drinking their own urine!" Shouted Wada: "If they die, it's no concern of mine." Of the 1,619 prisoners, only 450 survived the trip...