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Your story concerning W. H. Donald (TIME, Feb. 19) was definitely off base. Donald was interned with us in Santo Tomas until May 14, at which time he was transferred to Los Banos. At no time did he assume a false name, nor a disguise of any kind. Naturally, he displayed a reasonable preference for anonymity. Why the Japs didn't know of his presence in camp is still a mystery...
...rebuilt, a feeble flow of power was being supplied by Army portable generators. Manila Electrics local plant was almost rubble, its two hydroelectric plants outside the city were still in Jap hands, and reported heavily damaged. Manila Electric's president, J. C. Rockwell, who had been interned at Santo Tomas, gloomily estimated that it would cost $6,000,000 to restore the city's prewar electric supply of 42,000 kilowatts. As of last week even that was academic. New equipment must be shipped in before the job can be done...
...Pisa, the famed Leaning Tower was lopsided as ever, but the medieval cloister and burial ground, Campo Santo (one star), had its roof destroyed, ruining the frescoes of Benozzo Gozzoli...
...first copy off the press was presented to General MacArthur. Some 5,000 copies were given away to troops fighting in Manila, on Corregidor, and all the way north to Rosario; and plenty of copies were also sent to the news-hungry internees at Santo Tomas University...
...Leyte, distributing 4,000 copies there free each week while that same issue was still on sale right here at home. And the copy of our Pony Edition which Correspondent Bill Gray flew to Manila in his pocket a few weeks ago was read aloud to the internees at Santo Tomas by rescued Newscaster Don Bell of NBC. Said Gray: "Listeners accustomed to news a year old gasped, 'That's 1945!' Tears came to many eyes...