Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though Harvard's pass was very good," Governali said after the practice session. "There were only three passes of all I threw today where receivers weren't well covered." The Yank see also praised the downfield blocking displayed by the Varsity in the contact session...
...hands in horror at the notion of joining the stuffy, conservative American Legion, trooped over to the American Veterans Committee instead. Not so one group of reform-minded Manhattan newspapermen. Last spring they organized the Duncan-Paris Post (named for two war casualties from the staff of Yank). They elected left-wing Marion ("See Here, Private") Hargrove as their first commander, impertinently began to heckle their Legion elders...
...first postwar baby, Holiday, was ailing and in need of transfusions. Curtis President Walter D. Fuller raided "X", transferred its editor, natty, 44-year-old Manhattan Adman Ted Patrick,* to edit Holiday. Fuller also dug into what Patrick called his "terrific staff" of "X"-men, many recruited from Yank and OWI. Holiday, Curtis' flashily upholstered but unexciting travel magazine, had dropped from a first-appearance (TIME, Feb. 25) sale of 450,000 to 400,000 (about half of them pre-publication trial subscribers), and newsstand returns were heavy. Fuller brushed off rumors that Holiday might fold ("damn foolishness...
...Sword. During the war, while his wife worked for OWI, Carter launched Yank and Stars and Stripes in the Middle East. He found time to write Winds of Fear, a novel attacking small-town Negro-phobes; and Lower Mississippi, for the Rivers of America series. He came out of the Army a major in Intelligence...
Discounting this excessive hands-across-the-sea mateyness, audiences will find that Yank makes its point, gives an amusing, revealing, often shrewd account of American soldiers in Britain, and of British forbearance during the only successful invasion of the island since...