Evening star., 1945-12-16
Yank, Weekly Army Magazine,
Is Getting Ready to Fold Up

if Yank could be bought. None Of
them, however, was equipped to talk
turkey to the point of precipitating
decision.
The alternative was thought up by
two Yankmen, Sergts. Durbin Jack"
Horner and Harry Sions. respectively,
London and Rome editors. And a
Stars and Stripes compatriot, Dave
Golding. Backed by Publisher Leverett
Gleason, they intend to start new
monthly rotogravure magazine, kind
of civilian Yank," called Salute.
The link among Yank staffmen, pres
ent and discharged, is a strong one.
At the magazines informal Offices in
New York City sergeants' uniforms and
brand new civilian clothes mix in a
new tableau as the discharges drop
around to the place that still seems
like "the home Office" to them Sitting
on desk in very new gray flannel is
former Managing Editor Sergt. Joe Nc
Carthy, now nonfction editor of Co.'S
mopolitan. He's shooting the breeze
with Sergt. Max Novack, editor OF
Yank's heralded mail CALI depart
ment, the place where GIs could air
their gripes and often get something,
done about them. Sergt. Novack, await
ing discharge, is a lawyer and will go
to the Department of Justice.
Before he left for India for the Luce
Publications, Sergt. Dave Richardson,
who covered those famous jungle tank
battles as working gunner in tank,
dropped in to say good-by
Alumni Get Good Jobs
look at the alumni roster indicates
that Yank, the magazine whose men
carried gun as well as pencil, had
paid off as training ground
To date the Luce Publications have
tapped the greatest number. Sergt. Mack
Morriss, whose dispatches ranged from
Guadalcanal to Germany, has gone to
Life. Walter Peters, who covered the
famous Schweinfurt raid from which so
fortresses never returned. is at Fortune.
Paul Deutschmann, writer in Italy, Is
another Life recruit, and the current
managing editor Sergt. Al Hine, is
en- route to Fortune after discharge.
At the New Yorker are Sergt. Sander
son Vanderbilt, assistant Yank manag-
ing editor in London, who is rejoining
the staff, and Walter Bernstein, who
prefers to free lance, with the New
Yorker getting lot of his copy.
At the New Republic are Herb Lyons,
returning as managing editor, and Sergt.
Ralph Martin, who probably saw more
war in Europe than any other corre-
spondent, as new assistant editor,
In the lecturing field is Sergt. Marion
"See Here" Hargrove.
Dissolution Brings Problems
Although the last issue winds up the
editorial operations, it will take possibly
another three months to clean up the
production end. On the list of things to
be done is disposal of three printing
presses on Okinawa, Saipan and in
Manila.
The Surplus Property Act of 1914 pro-
hibits shipping them back to the States.
Further rulings prohibit selling them to
the Japanese, the only potential GUS
toners in the first two named spots.
Yank hopes to ship the presses (Which
have book value of 5000 as far an
Honolulu and dispose of them there.
In the European and Mediterranean
theaters, Yank did not have the same
problems. There it got presses, not by
buying, but by liberating them. In
Naples. for instance. Yank was printed
on press in the basement of the poor
house. The basement had been Hooded.
and II BOBBY traps were attached to the
press starting switch But Yank pro-
duction men had it going soon after
entering the city.