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...Retreat. Manila was an unequivocal liability. It lies in flat land with its back to the bay. It could be only a trap-a soft spot for a wedge to be driven home by the Jap to split the Army. As he had long planned to do in a last-ditch fight, General MacArthur abandoned Manila, already declared an open city, already heavily bombed...
...huddled mass of Chinese and Filipinos who lived in the death trap of Manila's old walled city, it meant little that the main objective of the Japanese planes had been ships and port installations, that this was not indiscriminate bombing. The bombs which, by accident or design had fallen short of the mark along the waterfront, had devastated their homes, drawn militarily useless, innocent blood. But Manilans were not terrified by this savage foretaste of what the Japanese might some day choose to loose against them. They refused to be panicked into headlong flight that might jam General...
...Government housing project consisting of modern, clean, thoroughly screened and hygienic homes." The community had "a special brick enclosure for the garbage cans, all of which were covered." In fact, Dr. Sabin noted, "there were so few flies about that it hardly seemed worthwhile to set out a trap...
MURDER WITH YOUR MALTED-Jerome Barry-Crime Club ($2). An outbreak of food and soda poisoning in a Manhattan drugstore drives the young owners almost frantic until a police inspector sets a trap that catches the killer. Soda-fountain argot and wisecracking Broadway dialogue add zest to the well-tangled plot...
Silly sequence: weather-beaten old Harry Carey, cast as the kind of white trader he played in Trader Horn, ambles into the outpost, learns about the Nazi plot, and brain-waves: "We've got to set trap for trap...