Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...service in Britain will be grateful for British Producer-Director Herbert Wilcox's sympathetic understanding-until it becomes white-hot and knee-deep. Yank starts off well, but eventually a plain, ordinary guy from Arizona (well played by Cinemactor Dean Jagger) is hobnobbing with a Duke (Robert Morley), visiting the ducal estate, making eyes at the Duke's granddaughter (Anna Neagle). The girl falls head over heels in love with the Yank sergeant, decides to marry him instead of a suave, handsome British officer (Rex Harrison). The Duke smiles on the match. In the end, only the fortunes...
...Yank in London (Associated British; 20th Century-Fox) is probably the most pro-American picture ever made outside the U.S. A story of the G.I. Occupation of England (circa 1943-44), it is not merely patient with the Yanks who swarmed over Piccadilly Circus like lusty, thirsty locusts. It is downright cordial toward the good-natured, homesick army of boys who whistled at the girls up & down Regent Street or Shaftesbury Avenue, jammed the pubs to drink up all the spirits in sight...
...Kruglev, a baby-faced leviathan (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ib ) who looks like a cop and is one. Kruglev bossed the police detail that guarded Stalin at Yalta and Potsdam, chaperoned Molotov to San Francisco and London. At Potsdam he chain-smoked, enthusiastically bummed chewing gum from every Yank he met, consumed vast quantities of food and vodka, kept his belly shaking with laughter between mouthfuls. President Truman liked Kruglev well enough to give him an autographed picture, a Legion of Merit...
...Yankees were stepping into good jobs. Highest stepper was dark, barrel-chested, 30-year-old ex-Sergeant Joe McChester Carthy, Yank's managing editor for three years. Before the war he was a $40-a-week Boston sportswriter, later a racetrack pressagent. Recently he was offered and took a $26,000-a-year job as an editor of Hearst's Cosmopolitan...
Sergeant Marion (See Here, Private) Hargrove, whose best-selling book made him perhaps the richest alumnus of Yank, signed up for a lecture tour, plans to write another book. Cartoonist George Baker's crude, snafued Sad Sack, who had been syndicated to 60 civilian newspapers, was about to become a civilian himself. Some of the Yanks and their neighbors on the daily Stars & Stripes were getting together on a new magazine, to be named Salute-a word presumably unpleasing to a G.I. ear. Among the Saluters: Cartoonist Bill ("Up Front") Mauldin, New Yorker Staffman Walter Bernstein, Playwright Irwin Shaw...