Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week the news held all but one of these editors at their desks -while TIME'S correspondents doubled for them on the scene of action- -Ragsdale out in the Western training camps, John Durant up in Concord, Mass., where teetotaler Yank Levy. Britain's No. 2 mayhem expert, is teaching guerrilla warfare to the State Guard (see p. 46) -and Sam Lyons down at Camp Lee, Va., where the Army is training its quartermaster corps to fight as well as it figures...
...Yank Is Cunning. Ace instructor at the School is Bert ("Yank") Levy, guerrilla virtuoso, onetime Wintringham assistant, and author of Guerrilla Warfare (TIME, Mar. 16). Levy is a dramatic, 120-pound, black-haired expert on the art of unmodified murder whom the British regard as a delightful combination of Daniel Boone and Jack the Ripper. His muscular nose was flattened and given a starboard twist in either World War I, a Nicaraguan revolution, the Spanish War or in one of his many personal encounters in civilian life. Levy specialties, as taught in both Britain and the U.S.: use of incendiaries...
...Yank will have an official chaperon in Lieut. Colonel Egbert White, former vice president of the big ad agency of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, ex-staffman of Stars & Stripes...
...keep their ears to the barrack rooms, Yank staffmen will be rotated "back to camp" from its head office in Manhattan. Yank correspondents will follow the combat units, fight when necessary, rate as fighting men, not correspondents, if captured. Says Executive Editor Captain Hartzell Spence, ex-U.P. promotion manager and author of One Foot in Heaven: "Suppose one of our reporters goes along on a Commando raid. If he comes back we've got a great story. If he doesn't come back we've got a casualty...
Only disturbing rumor (about which the staff was evasive in its denials): that for fear of offending mothers and antagonizing wives, Yank will print no cheesecake...