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...friends are saying," said a twelve-year-old schoolboy, "that when a dog shows his teeth, yank his tail." To a schoolboy it was as simple as that. To millions of other Russians it was just as simple...
Instructor in "cad warfare" for the British Commandos, Bert "Yank" Levy, veteran of every war or revolution since 1911, spoke on his work to a mixed gathering of the Naval Supply Corps, Harvard ROTC, and students on Monday in the Stadium...
...Yank" expects to leave this country within a few days to return to Britain, where Goebbels has promised that he will be among the first to be shot when the Germans capture England...
...this week the news held all but one of these editors at their desks -while TIME'S correspondents doubled for them on the scene of action- -Ragsdale out in the Western training camps, John Durant up in Concord, Mass., where teetotaler Yank Levy. Britain's No. 2 mayhem expert, is teaching guerrilla warfare to the State Guard (see p. 46) -and Sam Lyons down at Camp Lee, Va., where the Army is training its quartermaster corps to fight as well as it figures...
...Yank Is Cunning. Ace instructor at the School is Bert ("Yank") Levy, guerrilla virtuoso, onetime Wintringham assistant, and author of Guerrilla Warfare (TIME, Mar. 16). Levy is a dramatic, 120-pound, black-haired expert on the art of unmodified murder whom the British regard as a delightful combination of Daniel Boone and Jack the Ripper. His muscular nose was flattened and given a starboard twist in either World War I, a Nicaraguan revolution, the Spanish War or in one of his many personal encounters in civilian life. Levy specialties, as taught in both Britain and the U.S.: use of incendiaries...