Larry Henares

PREFACEWorld War II had just ended. Everywhere in the world, adjustments and readjustments shook the foundation of nations and peoples. This was the time of rehabilitation, reconstruction and political independence of the Philippines; of Roxas and his parity bill; of shootings and surplus scandals. This was Truman's years in the United States, this was the time of economic reconversion, of steel and coal strikes, of hysterical demand for cars, refrigerators and radios; of the birth of television, streptomycin, and the long-playing record. In Europe, the United States reacted with the Marshall Plan to the dangers of Communism, this was the time of the Truman Doctrine in Greece, the Berlin Airlift, an the austerity program of Britain. In Asia the Communist s were starting to overrun China, the Indonesians rose up against the Dutch, the Vietnamese the French.The tides of history rose and fell, mounted and shifted, and the world labored under the birthpains of the atomic era.These years stretched from 1945 to 1949.Against the background of world-shaking events, men still lived and died. They shaved, voted, paid taxes, subscribed to magazines and wrote love letters. Here and there, a man might compose a poem, hang himself, kiss his wife unasked, become a priest or gave his money to the search for a microbe.In the pages to follow, the reader will come upon such ordinary human beings. Here are fragments of a million stories - of Rene and his complexes; of Kiki and his erotic adventures; of the old woman in Apartment 4-A; of the girl who pressed a bloodstained finger on windblown sail; of Luisa who re-enacted the miracle of Fatima; of Billy who loved Pit; of Ditas who was stricken with polio; of the career-girl Helen; of Mother Keeler, Trixie, Rita Koller, Jody, Jack and other plain ordinary people who lived and laughed, loved under God's sun and stars.This is also the story of two people in love. The story, as told in their letters here, is not complete because it has no beginning and no end.The beginning started August 23, 1945, at 63 Protacio, Rizal City, and Philippines.It was Neno Abreu who told Larry Henares about Cecilia Lichauco, her charm and sweetness and goodness; who talked about the whine of the Jap sniper's bullet as it tore through Cecilia's leg; who described the courage with which she fought for her life in the Sto. Tomas hospital. It was this Neno who took Larry along this day to Rizal City when he went to greet Cecilia's sister, Lui, on her birthday.It was Nena Abreu who told Cecilia about the songs Larry composed, his friendship with Neno and his penchant for practical jokes. It was this Nena who introduced Larry to Cecilia on August 23, 1945 at Lui's birthday party.A few weeks later, Larry packed up his bags and departed for the United States to resume studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Half a year passed and Cecilia also left to get medical treatment for her leg at the Massachusetts General Hospital.On May 15, 1946, Larry and Cecilia met again in the South Station of Boston.Larry made it a practice to visit Cecilia at the hospital between brain-wracking exams at M. I. T. Their friendship grew with every visit.. and thereby hangs the . . . .They began a correspondence that lasted four years and spanned the continent. It is a pity that those letters recorded only moments when they were apart. Letters were written on vacation trips to Washington and New York - but never about those precious winter afternoons in Newtonville and autumn days at West Newton. When Cecilia went to study in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, and Hooksett, New Hampshire, she wrote frequently of college life - but no records chronicled the delightful weekends she spent with Larry in Boston; the excursions to Blue Hills, Norumbega Park, Revere Beach, Esplanade and Franklin Park; restful evenings cooking meals, (more inside)

Hilarion M. Henares Jr., known as Larry Henares, is a graduate of Ateneo de Manila, University of the Philippines, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an engineer, economist, educator, big businessman, writer, civic leader, public servant, and hobbyist (guns, books, amateur radio and electronics). He is a film maker who won the Famas Academy Award for the Best Documentary of the Year. He was a businessman who was awarded Young Businessman of the Year, and the Industrialist of the Year by the Business Writers Association. He was an educator who was dean of two graduate schools before the age of 25. He became the President of the Philippine Chamber of Industries, and a member of the Presidential Cabinet as the Chairman of the National Economic Council. He is a writer known for his essays on economics, history, art and culture, a front page columnist in the pre-martial law Manila Times and the most widely read column in the Philippines, according to all surveys, the daily "Make my Day" in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, after the EDSA revolt. About the book "Touch and Go" Just like the previous 13th book, this 14th book of the Make My Day Series "Touch and Go" concerns itself with Personalities and Perspectives. The first part includes an essay on Senator Raul Manglapus, the quintessential Atenean and his rivalry with Senator Pelaez; historian Carlos Quirino, his encounter with President Manuel Quezon in the nude, and his bid to be recognized as a National Artist; and Mayor Alfredo Lim and his bid for the Presidency. You will laugh at his description of the most miserly family in the Philippines; whose toilets are used five times before being flushed to save on water, whose members do not give Christmas gifts to each other, and fight to the death to retrieve pennies dropped on the pavement. And of course, Jaime Zobel who sued Henares for P240 million, the biggest claim for damages in Philippine jurisprudence. And hilarious accounts of Larry's experiences with the Customs and Claude Wilson who got caught bringing in dutiable goods like electronic appliances, cigarettes and liquor; Ramon Diaz, whom he called Raymond THE Ass; Jojo Binay who should be glad he is not as tall and conspicuous as Victor Lim; Nikki Coseteng and Col. Maganto who beheads students; General Singlaub who plots Vietnam type operations in the Philippines; the homosexuals of Dasmari as Village; and the Arab terrorist of San Lorenzo Village. . The second part, Perspectives, features a 17-part series on How To Serve The Americans by the Council of Trent, the Makati Business Club, and the Four Horsemen of the ConComm. It also features a hilarious account of the "apotropaic rites" of the Press Gridiron Night; and a commencement speech to end all commencement speeches, telling of the three levels of genius, and giving a picture of the Philippines 100 years hence. Lastly a hilarious piece on sexual harassment and the mating game; and a serious one on the Holy Wars that plague the world. Henares is a unique writer who can make you cry, and laugh, and get mad at the same time.

About the book "Swans And Swine" When Larry Henares tells the life story of the various personalities he encounters, he is at his best and at his wittiest. Taking off from his magnificent essay "Sunrise, sunset, swiftly go the years" on her daughter Elvira's life as a student and as a bride in a previous book, he now speaks of his daughter as a clone of his mother and one of a kind, as she struggles to conquer her fear of failure. And oh, the true story of how Secretary Ting Jayme owes his place in history to The Big Sleep, falling asleep when Marcos was making a major policy speech, and sounding a clarion snore against tyranny and Martial Law. Of course when he writes of Miriam Defensor, he delves into her first night of honeymoon when her concept of zero population growth conflicted with her husband's violent libido, even goes back to when she marched off her siblings in a single file to and from school. His description of Jose de Venecia as Yoda the Jedi Knight and Garfield the dog-hating cat, with eyebrows like quotation marks, and eye bags that look more like luggages, is irreverent but not insulting, driving Joe himself to self-deprecating laughter. But then best description is that of the head of the Council of Trent, "a sloping forehead, a bulbous nose trying to say hello to a weak receding chin, and occupying the space reserved for the mouth which is driven twisted to the side; a villainous convexity of a face, and a squint acquired from a lifetime habit of peering though darkened windows, preparatory to an act of thievery." His "Mad Max, Blue Max, Beta Max" and "Max's Fried Chicken, the little bird is dead" are masterpieces of satire that will live forever as the ultimate put-down, according to JV Cruz. In the second part, "Perspectives," he again vents his spleen and comic satire on the Opus Dei and Bernie Villegas, the CIA comic books, the Makati Business Club, the Americans at iba pa, and a specially informative essay on Sex Change operations. You will be shocked, you will be delighted, you will be tickled to hysterical laughter. TABLE OF CONTENTS PERSONALITIES - p6 CHAPTER 1. Dr. Elvira Henares Esguerra - p6 Part 1. In my daughter, my mother lives again - p6 Part 2. Scared to take an exam she might fail - p7 Part 3. Elvira called upon the ghosts of heroes for help - p8 Part 4. We are the family of Sta. Elvira - p9 CHAPTER 2: Vicente "Ting" Jayme, in that sleep what dreams may come - p11 CHAPTER 3: Miriam Defensor Santiago - p13 Part 1: Lady Miriam is losing her cool - p13 Part 2: Three lipos no effect on beer barrel belly - p14 Part 3. Miriam's Achilles Syndrome - p15 Part 4: In bed Miriam believed in abstinence, her husband in violence - p16 Part 5: In UP, Miriam and Joma exposed Agent Orange - p17 Part 6: Miriam, a whirling dervish full of hubris and chutzpah - p18 Part 7: Lady Miriam is Atilla the Hen - p19 CHAPTER 4. Jose de Venecia, Speaker - p20 Part 1. Portrait of Joe de V as Yoda and Garfield - p20 Part 2. Joe the Venetian cooks Lutong Macao? - p21 Part 3. Joe de V, peacemaker and moving spirit - p23 Part 4. Joe de V, jumping from peak to peak - p24 Part 5. Joe de V was anointed two years ago - p25 Part 6. Below the belt is the wife's domain - p26 CHAPTER 5. Teddyboy Locsin - p27 Part 1. To Teddyboy, the earth is a ball - p27 Part 2. Long Kiss of Teddyboy and Betty Go - p28 CHAPTER 6. Cesar Buenaventura and Tet Garcia - p30 Part 1. The Villainous Concavity of a Face - p30 Part 2. A Message to Bea - p31 Part 3. Barclays, MB Finance - p32 Part 4. Julius Cesar, God and Emperor? - p33 Part 5. Crony Cesar lords it over government - p35 Part 6. Before Joker was Tet's Offensive - p36 CHAPTER 7. Redentor Romero, violinist, lanlandet, patpata - p38 CHAPTER 8. Max Sullivan - p40 Part 1. When a friend becomes a fiend, Babu takes over - p40 (more inside the book)

About the book "Give And Take" This book reveals one of the most interesting facets of Larry Henares' talents and inclinations. He is what his readers call "a traitor to his class." A retired businessman and public servant with a talent for making money and an inclination to serve the least of his brethren, he now turns around to expose the venalities of his former associates, friends and relatives in business and government, decrying the conspiracies that betray the people's trust. For a long time, Henares took over the front pages of the most popular sheet at the time, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and made them the instrument of his crusade against graft and corruption, sparing no tycoon or taipan, not even friends and relatives. No more of his usual rib-tickling humor. His was the no-nonsense expose, with an expertise that was born of his being an engineer, an economist, a businessman, a math whiz and a cogent logical writer. And headlines that shook the public conscience and forced the Cory government to act on the anomalies of the times. He writes of the Ogre that never dies, so much quoted as a true phenomenon of our times; of the Debt-Equity Swap and Re-lending Schemes that enriched the rich and impoverished our government. He writes of the Steel Industry of which he himself was a pioneer, and the betrayal that broke the back of our Industrialization program. He writes of how Lopez took over Meralco; how Cojuangco bled the telephone monopoly; how Emil Yap took over and ran the Bulletin; and the PAL building scam. All in such exquisite detail, understandable to the ordinary reader and to the top expert, as only a Larry Henares can do in fearless give-and-take. BOOK 9: GIVE AND TAKE TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword by Alfredo Tomas "Atom" Henares, son and businessman - p.6 CHAPTER ONE: The Ogre That Never Dies - p.11 Part 1. The Ogre That Never Dies - p.11 Part 2. Silence, stone-walling are best defense - p.13 Part 3. Marcos' Scams Look Like Small Change - p.15 Part 4. PLDT Deal Pales Compared to Petroscam - p.16 Part 5. Petroscam: Kissinger's House of Cards - p.18 Part 6. We Owe Joker A Debt Of Gratitude - p.20 CHAPTER TWO: The National Steal Corporation - p.22 Part 1. Aborted birth of the Steel Industry - p.22 Part 2. RP 20 years ahead of Taiwan, Korea - p.25 Part 3. Leo Virata's DBP crucified the Jacintos - p.27 Part 4. Marcos used Laya to take over IISMI - p.29 Part 5. JoeCon afraid of pirates and privateers? - p.32 Part 6. Let's get on with the Steel Industry - p.34 Part 7. Why NSC imports Christian's materials - p.37 Part 8. Privatization, Integration imperative - p.39 CHAPTER THREE: Lopez's Meralco deal: - p.40 Part 1. Cory: Meralco not for one family - p.41 Part 2. Paying for a loan that's not theirs - p.43 Part 3. Control by a dummy firm or milking cow? - p.45 Part 4. Recapturing the glorious days of empire - p.47 Part 5. Morgan and Ayala may earn 500% profit - p.50 Part 6. Lopezes give their side - p.52 Part 7. Conclusion: Rube Goldberg stinks - p.54 Part 8. Inquirer's Headline: MERALCO DEAL FROZEN - p.57 Part 9. Curses, foiled again by the Lopezes (Feb.26,1990) - p.57 Part 10. Lopez uses our own money to buy us off (Feb.27,1990) - p.59 Part 11. Caparas gifts Lopez classmate P500 M (May23,1990) - p.61 Part 12. Lopez wealth gained thru politics (May 24, 1990) - p.63 CHAPTER FOUR: Emilio Yap's Bulletin - p.65 Part 1. Bulletin is a study in contradictions - p.65 Part 2. Marcos got 53.86 % of Bulletin shares - p.67 Part 3. Marcos children were to be Menzi's heirs? - p.69 Part 4. Yap finally gets control of Bulletin - p.71 Part 5. Marcos' Bull of Bashan underpays his staff - p.72 Part 6. Life with 'Doctor Don' Emilio Yap - p.74 Part 7. In hushed tones, and then some - p.76 Part 8. Snatching Defeat from the hands of Victory - p.78 Part 9. The Changing Owners . . .(PLUS MANY MORE STUFF

About the book "To Be Or Not To Be" In this the tenth book of the Make My Day series, we find another aspect of the author's multi-sided personality. An engineer and economist with a talent for mathematics, a poet and essayist with a talent for the communications arts, a businessman with the talent for making money - a Renaissance Man with the two sides of his brain equally developed and an IQ of 170 - he is also a lover of books, music and performance arts. In this book, Henares displays his love of the stage, of Shakespeare, and the musicals of Broadway. Here he writes of the Shakespeare in his life, "exploring the splendor and the meanness of the human spirit, the towering heights to which it can ascend, and the miry depths to which it can sink"; Julius Caesar, the shortest and most perfectly constructed of Shakespeare's plays; Romeo and Juliet, romantic Tragedy of Fate; and Hamlet, the complex Tragedy of Character. Here in this book he relates the stories of his favorite musical plays - Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and Cats - including the full libretto of lyrics so that his readers may assume the role of bathroom tenors and sopranos singing in the shower along with the CDs. He added the romantic story of Cyrano who had an ugly nose and a big heart, and The Miracle Worker, the inspiring story of the blind and deaf Helen Keller and her blind teacher. He completes the volume with brilliant and incisive essays on Philippine History for those who flunked the course; on Rats, man's rival for the mastery of the earth; on why men of talent wear a woman's gown; the Philippine Statehood Movement; the dilemma of the Last Filipino; and Emilio Aguinaldo, the Father of our country. BOOK 10: TO BE OR NOT TO BE TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword - By Hilarion "Ronnie" Henares III, son and thespian - p.6 THE PLAYS - p.7 CHAPTER ONE: Shakespeare in My Life - p.7 Part 1. Julius Caesar - p.7 Part 2. Romeo and Juliet - p.10 Part 3. Hamlet - p.12 CHAPTER TWO: Les Miserables, on Broadway - p.14 1. THE PROLOGUE - p.15 2. ACT ONE: As Monsieur Madeleine, eight years later - p.15 3. ACT TWO: Valjean finds Cosette - p.17 4. The story so far - p.17 5. ACT THREE: The Paris Revolution - p.18 6. EPILOGUE - p.20 CHAPTER THREE: Phantom Of The Opera, on Broadway - p.21 1. PROLOGUE - p.22 2. ACT ONE, Paris 1881 - p.22 3. The Story So Far - p.26 4. ACT TWO Six Months Later - p.27 CHAPTER FOUR: Miss Saigon, on Broadway - p.32 1. ACT ONE - p.33 2. Intermission - p.38 3. The Story Thus Far - p.39 4. ACT TWO - p.39 5. The Stars: Lea as Madame Butterfly, Monique as Madam X - - p.44 6. Guys and dolls, no bashing Lea, or else - p.46 CHAPTER FIVE: TS Eliot's Cats, on Broadway - p.47 1. The Jellicle Cats - p.48 2. The Naming of the Cats - p.49 3. Pekes. Pollicles and Jellicle Ball - p.49 4. More Cat Characters Introduced - p.50 5. A New Day Begins - p.51 CHAPTER SIX: The Miracle Worker, in Repertory - p.52 1. ACT ONE - p.53 2. ACT TWO - p.54 3. ACT THREE - p.56 CHAPTER SEVEN: Cyrano de Bergerac, in Cultural Center - - p.58 1. ACT ONE - p.59 2. ACT TWO - p.59 3. ACT THREE - p.60 4. ACT FOUR - p.60 5. ACT FIVE - p.61 THE SERIES - p.61 CHAPTER EIGHT: Rats - p.61 Part 1. Will rats inherit the earth? - p.61 Part 2: Who will be master of the earth? - p.63 Part 3. The sex life of a female rat - p.64 Part 4. The triumph of the Brown Rat - p.65 Part 5. The myths about rats - p.66 CHAPTER NINE: Women Leaders and Gloria - p.68 Part 1. Coming elections are a referendum of Gloria's presidency - p.68 Part 2. Don't underestimate our president Gloria - p.70 Part 3. The male fights for sex, the female fights to protect her young - p.70 Part 4. Men of great distinction wear a woman's gown - p.71 Part 5. The Warrior Queens from the Land of Salt - p.72 (MORE INSIDE THE BOOK)