Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Filthy. From the European theater another two-front observer gave his opinion. Major General J. Lawton ("Joe Lightning") Collins fought in Guadalcanal and New Georgia, now commands the VII Corps on the Western Front. In a recent interview in Yank...
...Army and the U.S. home front have been quick to appreciate Mauldin's veracity. First the 45th Division News, then the Army Times, the Stars & Stripes and the Yank printed his cartoons. He became a G.I. favorite overnight. When Ernie Pyle called Mauldin the finest cartoonist produced by the war, United Feature's George Carlin promptly signed him to a long-term contract. His saturnine "Up Front with Mauldin" is now syndicated to over 100 U.S. civilian newspapers...
Said one correspondent: "It's beginning to look like a publicity junket for the opening of a supercolossal movie." On hand to cover the Philippine invasion (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), along with assorted writers for OWI, Yank, the Red Cross and the British and Australian press, were no less than 45 U.S. newspaper and magazine correspondents-a Pacific war record.* And more were...