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This cable from our two correspondents at the front in Manila announces the start of TIME Edition No. 23-the first American magazine to bring the news to General MacArthur's fighting men on Luzon while it is still fresh here at home...
...first copy off the press was presented to General MacArthur. Some 5,000 copies were given away to troops fighting in Manila, on Corregidor, and all the way north to Rosario; and plenty of copies were also sent to the news-hungry internees at Santo Tomas University...
...more than a year now we have been making plans to print in Manila as soon as General MacArthur fought his way back. In fact, as long ago as last September, on the chance that we might find the Japs had destroyed all existing printing equipment, we bought a complete offset printing plant-cameras, presses, folders, stitchers and scores of other big & little items-all boxed for shipment to print TIME and anything else General MacArthur or the Philippines Government might want. We even lined up a reserve crew of plate-makers, pressmen and binders in California, ready to shove...
...actual printing of our first Manila Edition was done by engineer corps troops under able Captain Ray Harrison, by direction of mountain-moving Major General Hugh J. Casey -to all of whom many thanks...
Even before we were printed in Manila, TIME was doing its best to help our troops and internees catch up with the news. For example, ever since last October we have been flying our lightweight Pony Edition from Honolulu to Leyte, distributing 4,000 copies there free each week while that same issue was still on sale right here at home. And the copy of our Pony Edition which Correspondent Bill Gray flew to Manila in his pocket a few weeks ago was read aloud to the internees at Santo Tomas by rescued Newscaster Don Bell of NBC. Said Gray...