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...pick an orchid in the back yard of the house on bomb-battered Leveriza Street where TIME'S Manila correspondents live, but you have to lug some chlorinated water home if you want to brush your teeth. There are half a dozen bullet holes in the walls, and the staff of five TIME & LiFErs there had to get along without lights at night for quite a stretch...
...Newman had joined the army at 18, served two years at Fort Sill. Okla.; he went to Manila in 1940. Captured on Bataan, he had shrunk from 145 pounds to 92 by the time Cabanatuan was liberated in January. Army doctors fought to save what the Japanese had left of Jim Newman-one of the saddest cases they had seen of starvation, beri beri, tuberculosis. Other survivors of the prison camps gained weight and strength; Jim Newman did not. A fortnight ago the doctors gave up. flew him home to Fort Worth. He would die, they said...
During the November action the Ticonderoga planes helped litter Manila harbor with sunken Jap ships. In December, when I was aboard, the Third Fleet mostly ran into foul weather, but the carrier planes, including those from the Ticonderoga, left about 450 Jap planes wrecked on the air fields of Luzon, and others on Formosa, according to Halsey's reports...
What the war had done to 40 years of patient educational progress was plain to see in battered Manila. Only 20 of the 48 big elementary schools could open. Their makeshift quarters accommodated only a third of the prewar enrollment (112,000). Three of the city's four high schools, which normally served 26,000 students, were hard put to it to take in 4,000. In two of them, students found refugee squatters who refused to budge...