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6 unusual facts about Carlos P. Romulo


1942 Pulitzer Prize

Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines Herald for his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia.

Carlos P. Romulo

Feeling betrayed, Romulo left the Liberal Party and became national campaign manager of Magsaysay, the candidate of the opposing Nacionalista Party who won the election.

Grumman J2F Duck

Among its passengers was Carlos P. Romulo (diplomat, politician, soldier, journalist and author) who recounted the flight in his 1942 best-selling book "I Saw the Fall of the Philippines" (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York 1943, pp. 288–303) for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence.

Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence

1942: Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines Herald for his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia.

Romulo Highway

The highway is named after Filipino diplomat, politician, soldier, journalist and author Carlos P. Romulo, who had served, among other things, as President of the United Nations General Assembly from 1949–1950.

University of the Philippines Concert Chorus

UP President Gen. Carlos P. Romulo decreed that the UP Concert Chorus, then-called UP Mixed Choir, would be the official choir of the University of the Philippines System.


Boholano writers

Also named in the list are the late president of the Republic of the Philippines Carlos P. Garcia who wrote Visayan poems, Palanca awardees Marjorie Evasco and Clovis Nazareno and the Boholano dean of journalism the late Zoilo Dejaresco.

DZLT-AM

The station opened on March 23, 1960, with President Carlos P. Garcia, First Lady Leonila Garcia and Senator Gil Puyat being present at the station's opening.

Heaven Watch the Philippines

Berlin himself gave the first performance of Heaven Watch the Philippines in Tolosa, Leyte in 1946, in front of an audience that included Sergio Osmeña and Carlos P. Romulo.

SM Supermalls

Carlos P. Garcia Avenue Extension (C-5), Brgy.


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