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...Yank About Town. Dick Bruno (ser geant reporter for Stars and Stripes) came up with Winchelln-from an unidentified North African city. Samples...
Your issue of TIME, April 5, reached this outfit just at the close of the Tunisian campaign. In reading each and every line from cover to cover, as all of us do, I came across "Cartoonist Soldier." . . . Dave Breger, principally through Yank, has contributed no little to the raising of spirits among troops in this theater by his excellent cartoons...
...Yank, the Army weekly magazine, is one year old. A strictly Government Issue publication, it will last roughly only for the duration, does not worry about circulation (figures are secret) or profit. Yank now has four editions-two published in New York (for U.S. camps, for overseas distribution), one in London for soldiers stationed in Britain, one in Puerto Rico for Caribbean garrisons. Others are planned...
...trying to wheedle Spain's Caudillo Francisco Franco away from the Axis. But the British press and little Britons in their pubs have long been fed up with Foreign Office gentility. They have demanded that British words and actions directed toward Franco be short and pointed enough to yank him off the Axis platform. Last week two official Britons served public notice that Great Britain is going to tolerate much less arrogance from fat, Fascist Franco...
There was a whoopla in Toronto last week that should soon spread all over Canada. The Canadian Army unloosed a high-spirited, always likable, often lavish soldier show. The Yank's This Is The Army had given it a model to learn from and then disregard. Two Toronto sergeants, 26-year-old Frank Shuster and 24-year-old Johnny Wayne, had authored a peppy book, some perky tunes and lyrics. Canada's Jack Arthur, Broadway's Romney Brent and Hollywood's Aida Broadbent had punched the show into shape. And civilian donations had decked...