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Andante. Manuel Quezon is only 21 days older than Sergio Osmeña. They met on the campus of Manila's Santo Tomas University, roomed together in law school. Both rose to provincial governorships, both were elected to the National Assembly. Osmeña, boss of the Nationalist Party, became Speaker, chose his friend Quezon for floor leader...
Crescendo. Manuel Quezon knew that any help for the Philippines must come from the U.S. In 1909 he wangled his way to Washington as Philippine Resident Commissioner. Osmeña opposed the move; Quezon went anyway. Seven years later he returned to Manila with the Jones Act in his pocket, giving the Philippines a two-house elective legislature and more independence than ever before. Quezon, national hero, became president of the Senate; Osmeña remained as Speaker of the House...
...Manila last week the church bells clanged loud & long. In the shadow of Japan's ancient gods, Philippine priests muttered special masses. Gay lanterns dangled from street arches. Silk placards ' fluttered gaily. It was "Independence Day" in the Philippines-by special permission of Tokyo...
...sailing ship, a crucifix, an Indian girl, a heart, a spread eagle, a ballet dancer, a dragon, a sail boat, a girl's head, some flowers, a brace let, three hearts, a setting sun, a Pearl Harbor scene, three race horses, and the legends: "U.S.A. 1931" and "Manila...
...smooth Bill Stevenson, 42, onetime Princeton track star, is a descendant of Jonathan Edwards, the New England preacher. His grandfather was a minister; his father, the late J. Ross Stevenson, was president of Princeton Theological Seminary. His twin brothers are missionaries; one is a prisoner of the Japs in Manila. Bill was graduated from Princeton in 1922, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, ran on the U.S. Olympic team which set a mile record in Paris in 1924. He and Bumpy lived with their two daughters in a remodeled farmhouse in Stamford (now rented to Lyricist Dorothy Fields...