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MIDWAY SIGNS LIMEY PROF TO DOPE YANK TALK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Three Little Words | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...Parker School (375 children, all ages) pooh-poohed the Post Office, testified he had found such words as "whore" in Shakespeare, "sono-va-bitch" in the Chicago Tribune. He looked at an Esquire cartoon in which a harem beauty with a "Happy Birthday" tag on her ankle approaches two Yanks in the desert. Says one Yank to the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Experts Failed to Blush | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...Year-having proved themselves better than Axis supermen: Ivan, Tommy and Yank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1943 | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...remained a highly informal character. Once when Lillian Nordica was about to lift her voice in a love duet with him, he deposited a hot potato in her hand. In Tosca, when Antonio Scotti stooped to pick up the paint brush beneath Cavaradossi's easel, he had to yank at it for minutes-Caruso had nailed it to the floor. Caruso's most celebrated peccadillo led to his arrest on the complaint of a Mrs. Hannah Graham who had run into him at the Central Park Zoo and testified breathlessly: "He insulted me. He brushed against me three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Neapolitan | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

This week's issue of Yank has no editorial. A column, signed "Yank's Washington Bureau," cheers soldiers who buy war bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Yank Pranks | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

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