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Last week the War Department announced that the Stars & Stripes will have a World War II successor. Its name: Yank. "Publisher" will be ex-Stars & Stripesman Egbert White (vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn). Like its famed model, Yank will be edited by soldiers who prefer putting together a paper to wearing Sam Browne belts. Ad-less, like its predecessor, it will probably sell...
Anyone who thinks his country might be invaded-which means anyone now alive-would do well to read "Yank" Levy's Guerrilla Warfare-for instructions on how to harass invaders. Author Levy, 44, a Canadian-born soldier of fortune, now instructor of British Home Guards, has compiled a civilian's manual of mayhem and informal murder. His book is a brief, businesslike discussion of contemporary strategy, tactics and tricks for people caught in an invasion, with dozens of helpful hints on hamstringing, backstabbing, sniping and other dust-biting dodges. Author Levy urges householders to organize right away, study...
Guayule rubber is not new; Intercontinental Rubber Co. has been producing and selling it for 35 years. A U.S. corporation, Intercontinental gets all of its guayule rubber from Mexico, where the shrub grows wild in high, semi-arid regions. Mexican peons yank the plants from the ground, tie them on the backs of plodding burros, send them off to one of Intercontinental's three Mexican factories. There the rubber is extracted by running the plants through grinding and pebble mills. The final product (which is shipped to the U.S. in 100-lb. boxes) looks, feels and smells like tree...
...shadows of smoldering fires started in the noontime raid....Civilians are assuming wartime posts of censorship, patrols, supplies, guarding, nursing, doctoring, evacuating, bandage-making....I watched half a dozen dogfights and saw at least two enemies downed....The Filipinos were good and spirited....Talking to already stubble-bearded, grimy Yank soldiers at undisclosed posts: "I'd like another crack at those low-flying bastards. Write my mother I'm a hero. I'll stay here. I'll stick it out."...Night sounds: howling dogs, shouts from sentries, douse that cigaret, turn off those lights, shrill police...
...International Squadron," the second feature on the bill, has some scenes from "Blitzkrieg im Westen," a few airplane action shots of its own, and a pointless love story. The result is a spotty rehash of "A Yank in the R.A.F.," better in some of its air-raid sequences but an inferior job in general. Right now, those bombs don't look fictitious enough...