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Supervising the work and discipline are a handful of officers with Lt. Col. Franklin S. Forsberg as Officer in Charge. Major Hartzell Spence, former United Press executive, holds the official title of editor and bears the responsibility for Yank's printed word. But discipline is no problem for the men are given a daily $2.75 maintainance allowance and plenty of liberty; no man is added to the staff without the approval of the enlisted...
Actual Number One man who makes the final decisions is tall, serious Technical Sergeant Joe McCarthy, the managing editor. Just 28 last Saturday, Sgt. McCarthy is characteristic of Yank's staff, probably the youngest, and lowest paid, board in journalism...
...Army he led a pack artillery mule at Ft. Bragg for a year, and then was shifted to public relations. He wrote "Caught in the Draft" for the Post and became friendly with Private Marion Hargrove, who was assigned to Yank as soon as it was organized last spring. Then for weeks on end Hargrove annoyed Major Spence to call up McCarthy as sports editor for the new weekly...
Under McCarthy, Yank has grown--especially out of his belief that Yank should be edited solely for the enlisted men, disregarding the taste and know-all of its editors. He scraped off the polish and made it, as he frankly admits, "realistic and corny...
...less willing to admit, in so many words, that Yank is, objectively approached a morale builder for the masses of the Army; the privates, corporals, and sergeants. But Yank is that; its prime but never outspoken theme is the Glorified Enlisted Man. It also plays the more formal role of purveyor of information to the ranks. McCarthy feels the functions of entertainment and information are divided "fifty-fifty" in his paper...