Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army he led a pack artillery mule at Ft. Bragg for a year, and then was shifted to public relations. He wrote "Caught in the Draft" for the Post and became friendly with Private Marion Hargrove, who was assigned to Yank as soon as it was organized last spring. Then for weeks on end Hargrove annoyed Major Spence to call up McCarthy as sports editor for the new weekly...
Under McCarthy, Yank has grown--especially out of his belief that Yank should be edited solely for the enlisted men, disregarding the taste and know-all of its editors. He scraped off the polish and made it, as he frankly admits, "realistic and corny...
...less willing to admit, in so many words, that Yank is, objectively approached a morale builder for the masses of the Army; the privates, corporals, and sergeants. But Yank is that; its prime but never outspoken theme is the Glorified Enlisted Man. It also plays the more formal role of purveyor of information to the ranks. McCarthy feels the functions of entertainment and information are divided "fifty-fifty" in his paper...
...Sergeant Marion Hargrove is probably the best known of Yank's staff. He is now furloughing with his bride and preparing to take his turn at overseas duty for Yank...
Until recently, Yank boasted three Harvard men, two of them also writers for The New Yorker. Staff Sergeant Harry Brown '38 is Richardson's assistant in London. An ex-Advocate editor and writer of by-lined verse for The New Yorker, Brown has just finished a book, "It's a Cinch, Private Finch," with cartoonist and unofficial Gremlin designer of Yank, Sergeant Ralph Stein. Their humorous study of the building of a soldier will be out this month...