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From the northwestern tip of Samar, only 15 miles across San Bernardino Strait, lies Luzon, largest of the Philippine Islands, site of Manila, Bataan and Corregidor. When and if MacArthur chose to cross over to Luzon, he was not likely to find the Japanese the pushovers they were on Leyte. But the reconquest of the Philippines last week seemed much less of a problem than it had the day before his troops poured ashore at Leyte...
...grass is Zoysia matrella (Manila grass), an oriental variety with which U.S. horticulturists began to experiment five years ago. Park Superintendent Leo Goss of Louisville has covered four acres of Seneca Park with Zoysia, spread its fame among U.S. greenskeepers. Propagated from runners* instead of seed, Zoysia spreads quickly, crowds out even crab grass. It has already been planted in a number of Southern airfields and country clubs...
...clearing the way for new docks. But, like the other improvised bases in the Pacific, Manus may never be quite finished. Said an admiral: "Our ambition is to leave unfinished bases all the way across the Pacific to Japan." A signpost on Manus reads: "Tokyo, 2,000 miles; Manila, 1,670 miles...
Cosmopolis. In Manhattan, James Sullivan picked up a manila envelope on the street, removed from it 10,000 Dutch guilders...
...Veterans. They added Ulithi, Min danao, Morotai, Halmahera and Manila to their battles and scores of enemy planes to their tally. They fought now with confidence born of experience, shepherded the bombers with cool, cocky precision...