Word: yanks
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Engaged. Corporal Marion Hargrove, 23, writer of the best-selling See Here, Private Hargrove, feature writer on Yank; and Alison Pfeiffer, 20, senior at Smith College...
Since its advent last April the Stars & Stripes has given doughboys in Britain an eight-page weekly ration of U.S. wire service copy and pictures supplemented by sports, domestic news and radio photos. More conservative than its rival weekly, Yank, published in New York City for U.S. Armed Forces everywhere, S & S has nevertheless carried its share of comics, cartoons, together with first-rate coverage of U.S. troops in Britain by some 15 newsmen attached to combat units...
...Hoagy Carmichael's The Cranky Old Yank, one of the first U.S. war songs to be written about tanks, was tried out last week (amid appreciative whoops) on the same tank corps that heard Stokowski's Shostakovich (see col. 3). An official première of The Cranky Old Yank is scheduled by Bing Crosby this week on his Kraft Cheese broadcast...
...last time the Yankees were thus humiliated in a Series game was in the Ruthian era (in 1926) when Jesse Haines, another Cardinal, in the third game of the Series, stilled the Yank bats, turned the tide, and the Cardinals went on to win the championship. Last week Ernie White turned the tide as Haines had done. The game he won was the third of the Series. It put the Cards one crucial game ahead...
...Yank at Eton (M.G.M.). Timothy Dennis (Mickey Rooney) is as American as Peck's Bad Boy, and a good deal noisier. He did not want to go to Eton, but when his mother (Marta Linden) marries an Englishman (Ian Hunter) Timothy can't escape it. Right off he makes friends with a cute little Lord (Raymond Severn), whom he calls Inky, and an enemy of Ronnie Kenvil (Peter Lawford). Tim's stepbrother Peter (Freddie Bartholomew) tries to arbitrate, but Tim doesn't like Peter either. By the end of term he has democratically banged his head...