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...Hoagy Carmichael's The Cranky Old Yank, one of the first U.S. war songs to be written about tanks, was tried out last week (amid appreciative whoops) on the same tank corps that heard Stokowski's Shostakovich (see col. 3). An official première of The Cranky Old Yank is scheduled by Bing Crosby this week on his Kraft Cheese broadcast...
...last time the Yankees were thus humiliated in a Series game was in the Ruthian era (in 1926) when Jesse Haines, another Cardinal, in the third game of the Series, stilled the Yank bats, turned the tide, and the Cardinals went on to win the championship. Last week Ernie White turned the tide as Haines had done. The game he won was the third of the Series. It put the Cards one crucial game ahead...
...Yank at Eton (M.G.M.). Timothy Dennis (Mickey Rooney) is as American as Peck's Bad Boy, and a good deal noisier. He did not want to go to Eton, but when his mother (Marta Linden) marries an Englishman (Ian Hunter) Timothy can't escape it. Right off he makes friends with a cute little Lord (Raymond Severn), whom he calls Inky, and an enemy of Ronnie Kenvil (Peter Lawford). Tim's stepbrother Peter (Freddie Bartholomew) tries to arbitrate, but Tim doesn't like Peter either. By the end of term he has democratically banged his head...
...year ago last week Winston Churchill wrote his name after a vague list of war aims, the Atlantic Charter, to which last week a fresh young (19) brain contributed recommendations. Sergeant Mary Churchill of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (army), who a week before had been spanked by a Yank (TIME, Aug. 10), wrote for her anti-aircraft battery's newspaper an editorial on "Life After...
...Yank" Levy, noted guerrilla instructor for the British Home Guard and the Massachusetts State Guard, who was instrumental in starting the unit here, before any of the nation's colleges, will continue to give instruction and advice by mail...