Word: weissblatt
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...Correspondent Franz Weissblatt was ambushed and shot by Japs on Bataan. The bullet shattered the top of his right thighbone. The Japs stripped, spat on and kicked him, then threw him naked into a truck. Seven days later they dressed his wound with mosquito netting soaked in picric acid. That was all the medical treatment...
After 37 days the Japs imprisoned him in Manila. When MacArthur's men freed him, 36 months later, Weissblatt was hobbling on crutches, one leg three inches shorter than the other and twisted 90 degrees out of position. The bullet was still in his thigh...
Last week Correspondent Weissblatt, swathed in a plaster cast from trunk to toes, received the Purple Heart. A Manhattan surgeon had removed the bullet from his thigh, sawed through the crookedly knit bone and patched it with a six-inch stainless steel plate and eight screws. Now both legs are the same length. Soon Weissblatt will walk again without crutches...
...blacked-out corridors. "Suddenly I sensed rather than felt or saw someone beside me," he wrote. "I stuck out my hand, even as did Stanley in darkest Africa. . . 'I'm Quigg, United Press,' I said. The Dr. Livingstone of Bilibid Prison grasped my hand fervently. 'Weissblatt, United Press,' he replied." No one in Manila begrudged Correspondent Quigg this bit of Richard Harding Davis exuberance. For in Manila last week, the men who gather news were themselves news, and many a correspondent felt personal as well as professional excitement. At least five who entered the city...
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