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...Yank will be edited "solely and exclusively for us in the ranks and for nobody else." So announced the staff of the Army's weekly tabloid 66 issues ago. But somebody had different ideas...
Keeping pictures and text breezy and informal entertainment was a running battle for Yank's editor, Major Hartzell Spence, onetime U.P. executive. The staff, all enlisted men, printed what they thought subscribers wanted, but Washington brass hats had their own ideas of what soldiers should read. When Yank's Australian edition criticized Hollywoody cigaret advertising (TIME, Aug. 30), Spence fought off complaints. Despite pressure from higher up, not once did Yank tell soldiers about buying war bonds...
Before the Legion could cry "unfair," Major Spence was out. The Army called his transfer "routine." Brigadier General Frederick Osborn, whose Special Services Branch is responsible for Yank, hinted at an overseas assignment for ex-Editor Spence: "We can't run a good Army newspaper with men who sit in an office...
...William B. Dougherty, brought up "Draftee," one of the 155-mm. rifles that the Allies have dubbed "Long Tom" and the Germans "Whispering Death." A truck hauled the heavy gun into position. The crew wrote their names on the first shell. A red-haired Tennessee private was about to yank the lanyard when the colonel came up and said: "Do you mind, son?" The private answered: "That's all right, sir." The colonel yanked. Seconds later the shell crashed into the San Gio vanni rail and ferry terminal. It was the first artillery shot fired on Italy...
...recent cigaret advertisement showed a well-groomed soldier resting comfortably in a tropical setting, under the slogan, "Light Up and Relax." This ad and others like it last week were soundly thwacked in an editorial in the Down Under (Australian area) edition of Yank, the Army weekly. Drawled Yank...