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...story of one of World War II's most satisfying turnabouts came out last week. Its hero is Dr. Theodore Stevenson, 41, doctor at Manila's Santo Tomás internment camp until the Japanese threw him into Bilibid prison for insisting on the word "malnutrition" on an internee's death certificate (TIME...
...into a strong point. Churches suited the Japs perfectly. One churchyard fortress had to be burned out with artillery, mortar fire and flamethrowers. The centuries-old walled city, the Intramuros, was a natural fortress. Colonel Lawrence K. ("Red") White, of the 148th, saw no hope of saving most of Manila's famous buildings. Where the Japs had artillery, he would use artillery, refusing to send unsupported infantry against guns. In one church, two machine guns were found beneath the altar. The 148th took heavy casualties: ambulances clanged monotonously in & out of the area...
...United Press' earnest, efficient Horace Quigg, who entered Manila with MacArthur, had just bedded for the night on the concrete floor of Manila's Bilibid Prison. Then he learned that some U.S. prisoners, newly freed, were on the other side of the wall. He felt his way down blacked-out corridors. "Suddenly I sensed rather than felt or saw someone beside me," he wrote. "I stuck out my hand, even as did Stanley in darkest Africa. . . 'I'm Quigg, United Press,' I said. The Dr. Livingstone of Bilibid Prison grasped my hand fervently. 'Weissblatt...
Most anxious of newsmen returning to Manila was the U.P.'s Frank Hewlett, whose wife had stayed behind as a nurse when he left for Bataan and Corregidor with General MacArthur on New Year's Eve, 1941. Self-effacing Reporter Hewlett, in the middle of a long dispatch, reported simply: "I found [my wife] today, recovering from a nervous breakdown. . . . Her weight had dropped to 80 pounds. But I found her in excellent spirits. It was a reunion after years about which I do not want to think...
...Open City is a sensitive first novel born of bitter experience. It is a moving, convincing-and timely-account of life in a Jap internment camp, and of what happens to the characters of once easygoing civilians penned up in it. It is set in Manila's Santo Tomas camp, where almost 4,000 prisoners were freed by U.S. troops last fortnight. Author Mydans and her husband Carl, ace LIFE photographer, were imprisoned there for eight and a half months...