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...story of one of World War II's most satisfying turnabouts came out last week. Its hero is Dr. Theodore Stevenson, 41, doctor at Manila's Santo Tomás internment camp until the Japanese threw him into Bilibid prison for insisting on the word "malnutrition" on an internee's death certificate (TIME...
Radioed TIME Correspondent William P. Gray: "This city's misery goes on & on. Two weeks after the 1st Cavalry raced into Santo Tomás, it shudders almost constantly under the convulsive roaring of our Long Toms [155-mm. rifles] shelling the Japs inside Manila and close on its outskirts. Liberation has cost a price which only so precious a thing as freedom could justify, yet I have found no Filipino unwilling...
...ailing, with the pent-up knowledge of three years' hell to report. Among them: ¶ The U.P.'s Franz Weissblatt, 46, only U.S. correspondent captured in battle by the Japanese. For three years Weissblatt, shut up in Bilibid Prison, was only four blocks from his wife, in Santo Tomas internment camp, but was never permitted...
...Robert Crabb, who with his wife and a boy and girl born during their internment were among 3,700 freed at Santo Tomas. He wrote: "Hundreds of us wept unashamed when the Stars & Stripes was run up. . . ." ¶ NBC Correspondent Bert Silen, who began his first broadcast with an inevitable wisecrack: "As I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted over three years and a month...
...Open City is a sensitive first novel born of bitter experience. It is a moving, convincing-and timely-account of life in a Jap internment camp, and of what happens to the characters of once easygoing civilians penned up in it. It is set in Manila's Santo Tomas camp, where almost 4,000 prisoners were freed by U.S. troops last fortnight. Author Mydans and her husband Carl, ace LIFE photographer, were imprisoned there for eight and a half months...