Word: finches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Although the poem does not attempt to teach anything, the city-bred reader will learn several things he may have missed knowing. . . . He will be led to find out that the chewink is a kind of finch and is so called because of its note, which is accented on the second syllable. And why (unless for the rhyme) does the poet refer to the chewink rather than to any other kind of bird? Because the poet is 'versed in country things' and knows that the chewink has a quick eye and an appetite for berries, especially blueberries...
...Cinch, Private Finch!" is unique in several aspects. Technically, its cartoons and brisk, colloquial style of description on the facing pages are refreshingly novel. Also, unlike Hargrove, it takes a typical draftee on the highlights of his basic career rather than the exceptional private during everyday...
...heavy man puffing his cigar behind the desk and keeping an eye on his critic was Sergeant Ralph Stein, who drew the four dozen cartoons illustrating the metamorphosis of George Finch (147 pounds and he never played in backfield...
Then, it goes a long way toward proving Esra Stone's recital that the Army's made a man out of him. George Finch starts out with a 34 year old chassis and a 106 aptitude rating and finds the Army rough sledding for the first weeks. He finally gets into the swing, imagines he is knifing the cook, the sergeant, and the company clerk during a bayonet drill and ends up cursing the three-striper himself and getting away with...
...little volume's forward, Major Hartzell Spence, editor of yank, sums it up with. "The System had done its job." He adds, "Private Finch is a mirror of Sergeants Stein and Brown, the product of their own experience;" and he hints that the overseas adventures of the two will result in future tales of the recently promoted Pfc. George Finch...