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Unlike the civilian Terry, the Army's version has had no continuity; each week's strip has been built around a separate gag and decorated with damsels as breasty and near nude as Caniff dared draw them. One strip had Caniff's famed, shapely "Burma" entertaining Yanks at a dinner at which food was hauled in by slave girls apparently unclad from the waist up. As bulge-eyed soldiers stared entranced, Burma asked: "Why don't you guys eat? Is something too spicy?" In another, soldiers staged a camp show, used cantaloupe to give feminine allure...
...relief to report that as far as the networks are concerned, swing is in pretty fine fettle. It would be a good idea, however, if before you went to bed tonight, you offered up a prayer that Petrillo doesn't get into another squabble with radio, and yank off all bands again...
Engaged. Corporal Marion Hargrove, 23, writer of the best-selling See Here, Private Hargrove, feature writer on Yank; and Alison Pfeiffer, 20, senior at Smith College...
Since its advent last April the Stars & Stripes has given doughboys in Britain an eight-page weekly ration of U.S. wire service copy and pictures supplemented by sports, domestic news and radio photos. More conservative than its rival weekly, Yank, published in New York City for U.S. Armed Forces everywhere, S & S has nevertheless carried its share of comics, cartoons, together with first-rate coverage of U.S. troops in Britain by some 15 newsmen attached to combat units...
...Stars & Stripes does not intend to change its formula, merely to offer more of it. The paper will go up to eight pages on Mondays, will not publish Sundays. The Sabbath is reserved for bluff & breezy Yank. The two papers, which are not for sale to Britain's public or soldiers, will cost the doughboys sixpence a week. Although their circulations are secret, they are unquestionably the fastest growing publications extant...