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Honking & Clashing. Although the graft was perhaps more flagrant than usual, most other signs in the new 7,038-island republic were encouraging. Cabled TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod: "If independence can be made to work in the Orient, it will work here. There is more reconstruction here than in Siam, Burma and Indonesia combined. All night long, air hammers and steam shovels stutter and grunt through Manila's pleasantly cool darkness. In daylight, thousands of new passenger cars and bright orange and yellow buses, but above all jeeps-taxi jeeps, truck jeeps and passenger jeeps-turn downtown Manila into...
...Anna and the King of Siam ( 20th Century-Fox; TIME, June...
Despite the glamorized buildup to her job (a favorite newspaper comparison: Anna and the King of Siam), Mrs. Vining sees Akihito in private only one hour a week. A Japanese, Professor Hiroshi Kikuchi, gives the Prince most of his English lessons, which take seven of his 27 schoolroom hours (the Prince spends only four hours a week on Japanese...
...Anna and the King of Siam. Entertaining period piece with Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison (TIME, June...
...Anna and the King of Siam flew in the face of established Hollywood precedent...