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...contents were names like Pearl Buck, Arthur Compton, Trygve Lie, Edouard Herriot; on its editorial masthead were names like William L. Shirer, Thomas Mann, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vincent Sheean and Lin Yutang. The magazine's real head is Publisher Egbert White, a former Manhattan advertising executive who ran Yank and the Mediterranean Stars and Stripes for the Army...
...immediate result was clear. With the marines' withdrawal, the U.S. would be in a better moral position than ever before to insist that its only aim is to encourage a united, democratic China. It would yank the rug from under vociferous U.S. and foreign Communists who had been loudly shouting "U.S. imperialism" (and whose first, triumphant approval last week seemed to contradict their reputation for shrewdness). It would also quash the slightly ridiculous charge that a few thousand marines were intended as a show of force against the massive Russian Far Eastern armies...
...Paul Governali, erstwhile Columbia great and current Boston Yank highlight, put the Crimson defenders on their mettle for the second successive day as he demonstrated his famous passing technique in limitation (or surpassing) of Carl Leibert, Princeton flinger who passed the Brown backs silly in last Saturday's one sided encounter in New Jersey...
...though Harvard's pass was very good," Governali said after the practice session. "There were only three passes of all I threw today where receivers weren't well covered." The Yank see also praised the downfield blocking displayed by the Varsity in the contact session...
...hands in horror at the notion of joining the stuffy, conservative American Legion, trooped over to the American Veterans Committee instead. Not so one group of reform-minded Manhattan newspapermen. Last spring they organized the Duncan-Paris Post (named for two war casualties from the staff of Yank). They elected left-wing Marion ("See Here, Private") Hargrove as their first commander, impertinently began to heckle their Legion elders...