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...Simon, D. L. '45, Dunster K-32 ELI 2373 Snow, J. C. '46, Winthrop J-21 ELI 1284 Sprague, H. B. '46, Eliot C-12 TRO 0904 Stanton, T. M. '44, Eliot K-12 TRO 4193 Stearns, M. S. Jr. '46, Eliot B-53 TRO 3224 Stein, M. '46, Adams C-25 TRO 5365 Stein, P. '44, Dunster E-23, ELI 2339 Stonehill, G. C. '46, Winthrop C-51 ELI 2209 Stoutz, L. A. '46, Leverett A-14 TRO 5221 Stratford, R. L. Jr. '46, Leverett A-33 TRO 4222 Straus, G. R. '46, Leverett I-44 KIR 9707 Suskind...
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...
...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...
...paradoxical situation of a "Hahvvahd" man writing the story of a typical draftee resulted from both Stein and Brown's going through the same process of learning and griping themselves. The professional cartoonist served as a bedpan changer in a hospital and the poet-writer as an Army engineer...
...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