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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Beast of Berlin | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEVY, COMMANDOS' TEACHER, TALKS ON GUERILLA WARFARE | 7/15/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEVY, COMMANDOS' TEACHER, TALKS ON GUERILLA WARFARE | 7/15/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 29, 1942 | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Home Was Never Like This | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

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