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...assets which the Government has created during the war is a group of publishing properties. These include Army publications such as Yank, Stars & Stripes, and overseas publications of the Office of War Information such as Victory...
...First Yank Into Tokyo (RKO-Radio) might well be subtitled First Atomic Bomb Thriller Out of Hollywood. It was originally a stock B potboiler about a vague "superbomb," just ready to be picked off the RKO assembly line when news of the atomic bomb was announced. By snipping in a quick scene in a Washington office and pasting on the newsreel clip of the first practice explosion in New Mexico, RKO beats everyone else to the neighborhood houses...
...First Yank is Major Steve Ross (Tom Neal), an Army pilot who was raised in Japan and speaks the language without a trace of an accent. He is therefore drafted by Washington to rescue an American scientist (Marc Cramer) from a Jap prison camp. The captive scientist appears to be the only man who knows the whole formula for completing the atom bomb. The Major forthwith undergoes some heavy-handed plastic surgery to give him buck teeth, slant eyes and a puffy face which make him look less like a Jap than like a man with a chronic hangover...
Over luncheon bowls in Chungking last week, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek chatted with Yank's Sergeant Walter E. Peters, and answered an important question...
Artie and his glib earthiness are frequently amusing. (He rebels at standing "the thoid inspection in three days . . . I got enough to do to keep me truck clean without bothering too much about me person.") His weekly appearance in Yank was a popular one. But untraveled civilians who try to read 51 of his adventures at a sitting will find the laughs wearing thin. Author Brown himself puts a finger on the weakness of his book as civilian entertainment when he notes that Artie's "character was appreciated by those who were living with someone like him and listening...