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...plane and ship, Philippines Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay hurried south from Manila last week to a rendezvous 600 yards off the shore of Jolo Island, where the storied swashbucklers of the Philippines, the Moros, were on the rampage. Magsaysay had a secret date with one of the toughest Moros of all-clever, poker-faced Bandit Leader Kamlon. Kamlon, leader of the most formidable of the scores of Moro bands that terrorize Jolo, had agreed to surrender...
...Carravaggios, Profane Love and David with Goliath's Head; Gauguin's The Green Man, and Bronzino's Eleanor of Aragon. Pieter Breughel's Amsterdam under the Snow is priced at $14,850; Bronzino's Venus and Cupid at $13,750; Antonio Moro's Portrait of a Man and a Manet still life, Flowers and Fruit, at $11,000 each...
...which has produced 26,000 dead Japs) to the Eighth. The "Amphibious Eighth" staged the Visayan campaign, which MacArthur called "a model of what a light but aggressive command can accomplish in rapid exploitation." Then it went on to Sulu and Mindanao, where the grateful Sultan of Sulu and Moro chiefs presented to Eichelberger several handsome kris and bolo knives (which the General displays prominentlv at his thatched headquarters on Leyte...
General. T.R. had his eye on him. T.R. wanted to promote him for the hard, impersonal way he had handled the Moro tribesmen in Mindanao. Over the heads of 862 officers, including 257 captains, 364 majors, no colonels, T.R. made John J. Pershing a brigadier...
...workers. Instead of reviewing their role in the war effort, it revues it. It's Only the Beginning (produced by Soundmasters, Inc.) is a ginger-coated pep talk that points a moral with newsreel excerpts, talks shop in swing time, says "Thanks, boys" with dimpled knees like Peggy Moro...