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Until recently, Yank boasted three Harvard men, two of them also writers for The New Yorker. Staff Sergeant Harry Brown '38 is Richardson's assistant in London. An ex-Advocate editor and writer of by-lined verse for The New Yorker, Brown has just finished a book, "It's a Cinch, Private Finch," with cartoonist and unofficial Gremlin designer of Yank, Sergeant Ralph Stein. Their humorous study of the building of a soldier will be out this month...
...Harvard alumnus, Jack Kahu, Jr. '37, has just accepted a promotion to Warrant Officer and had to be dropped from the enlisted men's weekly. He has returned from the South Pacific, and is now writing a book and working on a Profile of General MacArthur for The New Yorker...
...juxtaposition of Theresa Wright's high-school-senior naivete and Cotten's unhurried purposefulness Director Hitchcok achieves completely terrifying effects. And the dialogue, written by Thornton Wilder and The New Yorker's Sally Benson, is one of the most lifelike and convincing of many seasons...
Since World War II's start in 1939, ten U.S. foreign correspondents have lost their lives overseas, more than 30 have been wounded. Latest to die: Associated Pressman Edward Henry ("Harry") Crockett, 31, a New Yorker and father...
Since Goodman left the Hotel New Yorker, the most satisfying band is Muggsy Spanier's, on WNAC Tuesdays at 1:15 A.M., Thursdays and Saturdays at 1:30 A.M. For one of the jazz immortals, Muggsy has less ideas, but more drive than anyone I know. The band is rather sad without him, but the Dean Kincaide arrangements are wonderful listening...