Word: yank
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...June 1942 I was transferred to the newly organized staff of Yank, the Army weekly, and asked to do a cartoon feature similar to my Private Breger then appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. But, said the Yank authorities, the hero must have some other name than "Private Breger." After some thought, I decided on "G.I. Joe," the "G.I." because of its prevalence in Army talk . . . and the "Joe" for the alliterative effect. My cartoon hero's full name was "G.I. Joe Trooper...
Luckily, the appeal of the play's theme and setting keeps pace with its errors and artifices. Lachlen's companions-a Yank, a Tommy, an Aussie, a New Zealander-with their unforced talk, their unmilitary longings, their international humor-are likable stage types. They are also, because they never strain to be, pretty convincing soldiers...
...TIME, LIFE & FORTUNE men in uniform (almost 50 percent have earned commissions). And the services seem to have made good use of the special skills of these men. To mention just a few, a photographer is "still my own photo boss with my own lab" ... an editorial man is Yank's senior Alaska correspondent . . . and one of our News Bureau men is gathering vital combat intelligence for the Army's G-2 Division...
Alas. With the money in the hands of a neutral party, they refer me to Yank magazine's figures on the casualties...
Sergeant Marion Hargrove, the Army's best-selling humorist, who wrote feelingly in See Here, Private Hargrove of the "fiendish cruelties" inflicted on him by Sergeant Thomas Mulvehill, found the situation still normal. Now feature editor of the Army's magazine Yank in Manhattan, Hargrove got a telephone call from Lieut. Mulvehill, now of the A.A.F. Barked , Mulvehill: "I'm getting married tonight and I need an usher in a hurry and you're it." Hargrove obeyed. Mulvehill let him kiss the bride...