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Stanley K. Leonard, czar of the manila envelopes, said last night that in order to avoid utter confusion, men whose names begin with A to K should register before one o'clock, and those whose names begin with L to Z should enroll between one and five o'clock. The remaining hours until eight will take care of the late-comers...
With only 920 names officially recorded on the cards in the manila envelopes, the bulk of what is undoubtedly the largest summer enrollment in Harvard's 300-odd years of history will enter Memorial Hall today and Monday...
...Detroit, High Commissioner to the Philippines, Governor of Michigan, U.S. Attorney General, Supreme Court Justice. The Justice was about to take another kind of oath. He had decided to go to the wars, as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. "I have," he murmured dramatically, "a date in Manila...
This is how Author Hersey introduces General MacArthur when Manila had reached the incredible brink of war: "He had been first in his class at West Point and First Captain of the class, too. He had been the first member of the Rainbow Division. He had been the first American Army officer ever to become a Field Marshal. He had been the first American to be a four-star General twice. . . . He had always done his job with a flourish and well. . . . He had been handsome, and divorced, and sometimes rather colorfully dressed, and always full of splendid rhetoric...
...where a few of Corregidor's old garrison were leading a new fight, The Rock's fall struck deep, even though, like the fall of Bataan, it had been inevitable. Officers there thought not of the troops the Jap could now free for other areas, not of Manila's fine harbor, now open for a Jap base. They thought of the cheerful, undaunted soldiers they had left behind. Wrote Douglas MacArthur...