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...Army career and turned out a best seller. A number of enlistees have tried "doing a Hargrove" since then, but a combination of a Harvard grad and a free lance cartoonist have just come nearest to making a name for themselves with an Army primer. "It's A Cinch, Private Finch...
Constant association with politicos has given 39-year-old Fulton Lewis many of their mannerisms. He indulges in deep senatorial guffaws, interminable telephone calls; gives his autograph freely and smokes his incessant cigarets in a long black holder. He loves his job, admits it is a cinch compared to newspaper reporting. He looks forward to the day when he will not have to move off his farm to do his broadcasts. Lacking the informed balance of an Elmer Davis or a Raymond Gram Swing, he has usually avoided international expertizing, has relied on his flair for exploiting home-front issues...
...recently, Yank boasted three Harvard men, two of them also writers for The New Yorker. Staff Sergeant Harry Brown '38 is Richardson's assistant in London. An ex-Advocate editor and writer of by-lined verse for The New Yorker, Brown has just finished a book, "It's a Cinch, Private Finch," with cartoonist and unofficial Gremlin designer of Yank, Sergeant Ralph Stein. Their humorous study of the building of a soldier will be out this month...
...other (Red-menace) school is exemplified by a recent editorial in the New York Daily News: "It is a cinch bet that the much discussed postwar policing of Germany will be done by the Russians. . . . Stalin will accomplish what Hitler tried to do-dominate all Europe. The effect of all this on us will be to leave us in as much danger from Europe as we were before this...
Although it has lost one meet and won none, Columbia will be no cinch. Navy will be tougher although it has suffered two setbacks and failed to crack the win column. Besides its victory over Penn, the Crimson can boast of vanquishing Brown and M. I. T. Neither of these conquests carry any weight in the Eastern League however...