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Thirteen months later, the 37th landed with MacArthur in Lingayen Gulf to begin the race south for Manila. In three days it covered 50 miles. On its flank raced the spectacular ist Cavalry, rolling on wheels. Beightler swore: "We've fought our way a hundred miles and we won't let those feather merchants beat us in." Through a mid-morning mist the 37th saw Manila at last. The ist Cavalry, plunging ahead to liberate Santo Tomas, did beat them in, but it was the 37th which paddled across the Pasig River to seize the old walled Intramuros...
...starlit Philippine sky covered the roofless ruins of old Santa Cruz church. Viennese-born Conductor Herbert Zipper stepped onto the plank podium-and the Manila Symphony Society's first concert since December 1941 had begun...
...audience of 1,200 soldiers and natives who gathered last week inside the crumbling walls settled back to listen to Beethoven's Third (Eroica) Symphony. Occasionally during the softer passages, a siren wailed or a bulldozer could be heard working away at Manila's rubble. Beads of perspiration tipped Dr. Zipper's sharp nose. In the first row sat Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, in a pink cotton frock.. Also present was the Symphony's president, Mrs. Benito Legarda, a handsome Philippine woman who hid the Society's instruments and scores from the Japs...
Supercritical listeners noted imperfections in the reading of the New World Symphony, Antonin Dvorak's tribute to America. Some of the hastily rehearsed musicians were playing unfamiliar instruments furnished by the U.S. Army Special Services Division. But the Manila Symphony gave the people a promise that night - as well as a concert. As a Dutch officer, a former Amsterdam flutist, put it : "All that is beautiful and good will come back in our lives...
Both had been behind bars since the week U.S. troops entered the wrecked capital. Nic, a 42-year-old playboy, who once escorted Actress Anna May Wong to Hollywood nightclubs, had been allowed to live exceedingly well in a Manila penthouse during the Japanese occupation. Sergio Jr., regarded as the most brilliant of the sons, had operated a commercial firm, amassed a small fortune during the wartime months when many other Filipinos starved...