Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's potentially biggest tabloid (circulation: a military secret) was born last week. Name: Yank. Weight: 24 ad-less pages. Price: 5?. Father: the U.S. Army. Like its famed predecessor, World War I's Stars & Stripes, it is edited "solely and exclusively for us in the ranks and for nobody else." Its managing editor is a 23-year-old private who reputedly talks back to sergeants, Bill Richardson, ex-Sunday editor of the San Francisco Chronicle...
Picture-minded Yank's first issue was breezy but less lighthearted than Stars & Stripes. Typical ingredients...
...Crosby item has on one side a rather effectively weird, or maybe it's weirdly effective, piece by the arranger for the band, Bob Haggart, who calls it "Chain Gang." Tomtoms thump throughout, and there is some raucous muted trumpeting by Yank Lawson, who has heard Cootie Williams play. The reverse is an arrangement for the orchestra of the beautiful piano improvisation by Jess Stacy called "Ec-Stacy," which was recorded nearly three years ago. This remake stars Stacy again, but although it is an attractive, easily swinging performance, it has lost most of the expressiveness of the original, largely...
...Nazis' No. 1 French war prisoner had escaped from Germany and reached Vichy and talked openly with Marshal Pétain. Presumably the Nazis could yank him back to Germany again. But towering, mustachioed General Henri Honoré Giraud, 63, escapist extraordinary, reputedly a German-hater, said to be an admirer of the military theories of General Charles de Gaulle, had become more than ever an old darling of France, and Quisling Pierre Laval was already having enough trouble with the French people...
...Stars & Stripes, famed paper of World War I's A.E.F., is going to be revived-in England. Following on the heels of the War Department's decision to get out a World War II successor for Stars & Stripes under a new name, Yank, for distribution to all the scattered A.E.F.s of World War II (TIME, April 13), two Army officers in London announced that they would revive the Stars & Stripes for U.S. troops in Britain. Their first number will be Vol. 2, No. 72. Its price: threepence...