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...Luzon's jagged Sierra Madre mountains one day last week, a Philippine army patrol scattered a small party of Huk guerrillas. Over the barking rifles a woman's voice cried: "I surrender! I am Celia Mariano, wife of William Pomeroy." Out of the bushes came a frightened, tired woman, long, raven-black hair falling over her bruised face, her bare feet bleeding. When the Philippine army captured her husband, U.S.-born Huk Leader William Pomeroy (TIME, April 21), she had leaped out of a window and fled into the mountains with two Huk women and two male...
First prize, a portable Smith-Corona typewriter went to Cavin P. Leeman '52. Roger A. Pomeroy '55 won the second prize, a $20 Shaeffer pen set. Third prize, a free typewriter overhaul, was awarded to three people, John deBruynkops, III '53, Alden C. Davis '52, and Linette Peter '54. Fourth prize winner Richard C. Spelman '53 really hit the jackpot, winning 100 pounds of ice to be shipped anywhere in the United States...
William Joseph Pomeroy was less than a year old when the Russian Revolution shook the world. A scholarly, intense boy, he carried the flag at graduation exercises at Rochester's (N.Y.) P.S. 32. At West High School he won honors in English, but after leaving school the best job he could get was that of buffer hand in a factory. He decided that society, not himself, was to blame. Early in 1938 he joined the Young Communist League, later that year became a full Communist Party member...
...spurn a dollar from the government he hoped to overthrow, he enrolled under the G.I. Bill of Rights at the University of the Philippines. In 1948 he married Celia Mariano, a Filipino girl who attracted Pomeroy for special reasons: "I deliberately chose for a wife an active comrade in the movement so that there will be no antagonisms or divided loyalties." Known as "Bob" and "Rene," the Pomeroys became regular instructors at a "Stalin University" attended by Huk guerrillas in the Sierra Madre mountains. In the records of the Philippine police they were listed...
Surrender. In January 1951, a Philippine Army patrol in a brush with a Huk band found a blood-stained musette bag containing Pomeroy's passport and some papers in his handwriting. Last week, in rugged mountains near the border of Bulacan and Quezon Provinces, the Philippine 12th Battalion Combat team surprised a camp of 20 Huk guerrillas. Three of the Huks were killed, several of the guerrillas surrendered. Among the captured was William J. Pomeroy...