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...Private Breger's talent, he was transferred to the Special Services Division and sent first to New York (where he married), then to England in June 1942, to do odd jobs of art for the Army and to serve as photographer-artist for the Army's weekly, Yank. For Yank he turned out occasional comic strips called "G.I. Joe" until he got his lieutenancy (commissioned officers cannot be members of Yank's staff). But Dave Breger's best-known creation is the daily panel called Private Breger...
...tall skinny sergeant a tank man, stood rocking with laughter in the art room of "Yank, The Army Weekly," the other day. He slapped his thighs and alternated between bows and quarterknee bends. "Yeah," he snorted, "The injection needles always look that big." He turned pages. He roared. "There's always one guy doin' something out of time at exercise. Rumors! That's right-always a rumor...
That brief sequence is probably the easiest way to sum up the new book by Sergeants Harry Brown and Ralph Stein, "it's a Cinch, Private Finch!" A "Yank" writer and artist combined on this easy- to-read easy-to-laugh-at review of Army indoctrination both as a refresher for those who have run the gauntlet of basic training and as a forecast for those about to dive...
Biographer of this modern Babbitt is Harry Brown, who was a member of the Harvard Class of 1938 and editor of the Advocate. Brown, however, is learning of the book's success via the trans-Atlantic cables as he is how with the London bureau of Yank...
...little volume's forward, Major Hartzell Spence, editor of yank, sums it up with. "The System had done its job." He adds, "Private Finch is a mirror of Sergeants Stein and Brown, the product of their own experience;" and he hints that the overseas adventures of the two will result in future tales of the recently promoted Pfc. George Finch