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...Crosby item has on one side a rather effectively weird, or maybe it's weirdly effective, piece by the arranger for the band, Bob Haggart, who calls it "Chain Gang." Tomtoms thump throughout, and there is some raucous muted trumpeting by Yank Lawson, who has heard Cootie Williams play. The reverse is an arrangement for the orchestra of the beautiful piano improvisation by Jess Stacy called "Ec-Stacy," which was recorded nearly three years ago. This remake stars Stacy again, but although it is an attractive, easily swinging performance, it has lost most of the expressiveness of the original, largely...
...Nazis' No. 1 French war prisoner had escaped from Germany and reached Vichy and talked openly with Marshal Pétain. Presumably the Nazis could yank him back to Germany again. But towering, mustachioed General Henri Honoré Giraud, 63, escapist extraordinary, reputedly a German-hater, said to be an admirer of the military theories of General Charles de Gaulle, had become more than ever an old darling of France, and Quisling Pierre Laval was already having enough trouble with the French people...
...Stars & Stripes, famed paper of World War I's A.E.F., is going to be revived-in England. Following on the heels of the War Department's decision to get out a World War II successor for Stars & Stripes under a new name, Yank, for distribution to all the scattered A.E.F.s of World War II (TIME, April 13), two Army officers in London announced that they would revive the Stars & Stripes for U.S. troops in Britain. Their first number will be Vol. 2, No. 72. Its price: threepence...
Differences are that Yank will be a tabloid, carry photographs. Still bigger difference will be the problem of distribution and reporting, from Ireland to Australia. Contributions from Yank's world network of soldier reporters will go to Manhattan headquarters, where a staff of about 40 will put it together. Forces overseas will receive their copies via destroyer. Where editions can be printed locally, mats will be flown from Manhattan. With readers in all quarters of the globe, its big editorial problem will be to match the rank-&-file intimacy of Stars & Stripes, whose editors worked within hearing distance...
First A.E.F. reaction to the announcement of Yank was a squawk. U.S. troops in Australia griped at the title. They have already had fist fights with Aussies who insist on calling them Yanks. Most of those who got into scraps were Southerners, but other U.S. troops down under don't like the gritty name any better. To avoid unnecessary bloodshed, some Australian commanders have ordered their troops to lay off "Yank...