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...Sergeant Marion Hargrove is probably the best known of Yank's staff. He is now furloughing with his bride and preparing to take his turn at overseas duty for Yank...
Until recently, Yank boasted three Harvard men, two of them also writers for The New Yorker. Staff Sergeant Harry Brown '38 is Richardson's assistant in London. An ex-Advocate editor and writer of by-lined verse for The New Yorker, Brown has just finished a book, "It's a Cinch, Private Finch," with cartoonist and unofficial Gremlin designer of Yank, Sergeant Ralph Stein. Their humorous study of the building of a soldier will be out this month...
...beginning the desk men in New York did all the writing for Yank. The weekly was started with a bang last June, before field correspondents could be distributed. Now most of the writing is done in the field, and the copy is rushed back from overseas in intelligence packets which are flown to headquarters. Unsolicited cartoons, sports news, and yarns such as on life in Miami hotels and what to take with you overseas frequently turn...
During the summer the full page pin-up girl was cut down to save space, but violent objections flowed in. Yank's India correspondent found the girls decorating all the barracks in that corner of the world. There has been one in every issue since...
...seeking to develop confidence in and respect for his Army weekly "by the men . . . for the men in the service," in anticipation of another problem yet to be met. When victory is won, McCarthy foresees a morale problem among the men wishing to get home. He hopes to make Yank just as useful then, after the war is over, as it is while his staff and reader are helping win it. Meanwhile he only admits. "None of us can tell just what kind of a job we're doing till it's all over...