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Earl was teaching school when the Spanish-American War came. He enlisted with Company F, 51st Iowa Volunteers. Typhoid fever laid him low in The Presidio's hospital, San Francisco, and he missed the boat when his outfit sailed for Manila. By the time his temperature had dropped, the war was over...
Later his 19-year-old daughter sailed to Manila with her father, where a change of administration dropped him to the governorship of a small island, where he died. Josefina, then 20, took refuge with a Creole family in Manila. "There was one wholly exceptional young man in Manila, tall, blond, aquiline, blue-eyed, an American, a Protestant, and unmistakably virtuous." He was George Sturgis, 32. This marriage was for him extremely happy. But George Sturgis, after taking his family to Boston on the clipper ship Fearless, died in the midst of a commercial failure. same ship. Years later...
...back in New York, you know.' " Long-famed as an uninhibited collector of 1) the first engineering degree given a woman by the University of Wisconsin, 2) monkeys, 3) the lowdown, 4) U.S.-banked royalties on her best-selling The Soong Sisters, 5) Manila cigar ashes, Miss Hahn introduced a reporter to the most unconventional item in her Oriental collection: her two-year-old, Chinese-babbling daughter Carola...
They had been caught, despite warnings over & over again from the Army and the State Department, in Japan, North China, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila, French Indo-China. They had been interned for as long as 21 months, living on wormy rice, fish and greasy soup-and hope. They had lost some weight (average only 15 lb.) and most of their worldly good's. They had also lost their identity...
...whose only regret for his historic rampage in the Java Sea as captain of the Seawolf is that it inspired some writer tc curse him with the nickname of "Fearless Freddie"; Commander Mike Fenno, who took the Trout into Corregidor with ammunition and brought out a cargo oi Manila gold...