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...first postwar baby, Holiday, was ailing and in need of transfusions. Curtis President Walter D. Fuller raided "X", transferred its editor, natty, 44-year-old Manhattan Adman Ted Patrick,* to edit Holiday. Fuller also dug into what Patrick called his "terrific staff" of "X"-men, many recruited from Yank and OWI. Holiday, Curtis' flashily upholstered but unexciting travel magazine, had dropped from a first-appearance (TIME, Feb. 25) sale of 450,000 to 400,000 (about half of them pre-publication trial subscribers), and newsstand returns were heavy. Fuller brushed off rumors that Holiday might fold ("damn foolishness...
...Sword. During the war, while his wife worked for OWI, Carter launched Yank and Stars and Stripes in the Middle East. He found time to write Winds of Fear, a novel attacking small-town Negro-phobes; and Lower Mississippi, for the Rivers of America series. He came out of the Army a major in Intelligence...
...service in Britain will be grateful for British Producer-Director Herbert Wilcox's sympathetic understanding-until it becomes white-hot and knee-deep. Yank starts off well, but eventually a plain, ordinary guy from Arizona (well played by Cinemactor Dean Jagger) is hobnobbing with a Duke (Robert Morley), visiting the ducal estate, making eyes at the Duke's granddaughter (Anna Neagle). The girl falls head over heels in love with the Yank sergeant, decides to marry him instead of a suave, handsome British officer (Rex Harrison). The Duke smiles on the match. In the end, only the fortunes...
...Yank in London (Associated British; 20th Century-Fox) is probably the most pro-American picture ever made outside the U.S. A story of the G.I. Occupation of England (circa 1943-44), it is not merely patient with the Yanks who swarmed over Piccadilly Circus like lusty, thirsty locusts. It is downright cordial toward the good-natured, homesick army of boys who whistled at the girls up & down Regent Street or Shaftesbury Avenue, jammed the pubs to drink up all the spirits in sight...
Discounting this excessive hands-across-the-sea mateyness, audiences will find that Yank makes its point, gives an amusing, revealing, often shrewd account of American soldiers in Britain, and of British forbearance during the only successful invasion of the island since...