Word: finches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
That brief sequence is probably the easiest way to sum up the new book by Sergeants Harry Brown and Ralph Stein, "it's a Cinch, Private Finch!" A "Yank" writer and artist combined on this easy- to-read easy-to-laugh-at review of Army indoctrination both as a refresher for those who have run the gauntlet of basic training and as a forecast for those about to dive...
...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...
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...March 30 issue of TIME . . . you speak of the Finch School as having become a junior college "like Sarah Lawrence and Stephens." Sarah Lawrence College opened in 1928 as a junior college but was chartered in 1931 as a senior college and has granted A.B. degrees ever since 1933. The College gives a diploma to mark the completion of the first two years but it is definitely a four-year college...