Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These are but two of the hundreds of G.I.s, some glum, some gay, whom Sergeant Walter Bernstein ran across in his three years as a correspondent for the Army's newspaper Yank. From a draft board in Brooklyn, Correspondent Bernstein's career in the Army carried him to Georgia, to Italy, and finally into German-held Yugoslavia, where he became the first U.S. newsman to interview Tito. In a tense chapter of Keep Your Head Down he describes his seven-day march to Tito's headquarters and his meeting with the Partisans. But readers of Bernstein...
...fireproof, but "flameproofed." Roughly, this means that the 75,000 yards of canvas, the 41 tents and the wooden parts of the folding grandstands can still catch fire, but that flames cannot spread beyond the area of the fire. After a lot of thought, the circus decided not to yank its Clown Fire House act, feeling "it would be more conspicuous by its absence...
...correspondents and photographers for Yank, Leatherneck, other service publications...
...Sometimes N.C.A. S.F.'s rebuttal "proof" consisted in comparing White's prejudices with somebody else's. Sometimes N.C.A.S.F. seemed to be drubbing Reporter White over the head with a peppermint candy stick. (White: "The women are drab, sallow and tired." Rebuttal, by Private Howard Katzander in Yank: "They have beautiful complexions and some are beautifully built...
Born. To Sergeant Marion Hargrove, 25, best-selling G.I. humorist (See Here, Private Hargrove}, feature editor of Yank] and Alison Pfeiffer Hargrove, 22: their first child, a son; in Manhattan...