Supervising the work and discipline are a handful of officers with Lt. Col. Franklin S. Forsberg as Officer in Charge. Major Hartzell Spence, former United Press executive, holds the official title of editor and bears the responsibility for Yank's printed word. But discipline is no problem for the men are given a daily $2.75 maintainance allowance and plenty of liberty; no man is added to the staff without the approval of the enlisted men.

Actual Number One man who makes the final decisions is tall, serious Technical Sergeant Joe McCarthy, the managing editor. Just 28 last Saturday, Sgt. McCarthy is characteristic of Yank's staff, probably the youngest, and lowest paid, board in journalism.

Coincidentally, McCarthy knows more about Harvard than 99 percent of periodical editors. He was born on Mt. Auburn St. at Harvard Square and his home for 20 years was on the corner of Brattle and Hilliard. Attending B.C., he worked on the Boston Post for several years. After he graduated in 1939, he worked on sports publicity with Frank Ryan until he was drafted from PBH in the Yard in February '41.

In the Army he led a pack artillery mule at Ft. Bragg for a year, and then was shifted to public relations. He wrote "Caught in the Draft" for the Post and became friendly with Private Marion Hargrove, who was assigned to Yank as soon as it was organized last spring. Then for weeks on end Hargrove annoyed Major Spence to call up McCarthy as sports editor for the new weekly.

Spence finally weakened and McCarthy came to New York. He wrote a sports column, predicting at one point that the Dodgers would win the pennant, but was soon made assistant managing editor under 23-year old Sgt. Bill Richardson of Raleigh, N.C., who now heads the London bureau. When Richardson was shipped over in September, McCarthy stepped into his shoes.

Under McCarthy, Yank has grown--especially out of his belief that Yank should be edited solely for the enlisted men, disregarding the taste and know-all of its editors. He scraped off the polish and made it, as he frankly admits, "realistic and corny."

Glorified Enlisted Men

He is less willing to admit, in so many words, that Yank is, objectively approached a morale builder for the masses of the Army; the privates, corporals, and sergeants. But Yank is that; its prime but never outspoken theme is the Glorified Enlisted Man. It also plays the more formal role of purveyor of information to the ranks. McCarthy feels the functions of entertainment and information are divided "fifty-fifty" in his paper.

He has a staff with plenty of experience. Feature Editor Staff Sergeant Douglas Borgstadt was formerly Post Scripts editor of the Satevepost. Picture Editor Staff Sergeant Leo Hofeller was picture editor of the Daily News and has had extensive experience with the Armored Forces. Art Director Staff Sergeant Arthur Weithas takes charge of layouts, and was an advertising layout are before the war.

Now, Sergeant Marion Hargrove is probably the best known of Yank's staff. He is now furloughing with his bride and preparing to take his turn at overseas duty for Yank.

Harvard Mon on Staff

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.

Sergeant John Hay '38, grandson of Secretary of State Hay and one of the reviewers of the Monthly while at Harvard, is now assistant picture editor. Before the war, he was Washington correspondent for the Charleston News and Courier.

But the third 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.

In the beginning the desk men in New York did all the writing for Yank. The weekly was started with a bang last June, before field correspondents could be distributed. Now most of the writing is done in the field, and the copy is rushed back from overseas in intelligence packets which are flown to headquarters. Unsolicited cartoons, sports news, and yarns such as on life in Miami hotels and what to take with you overseas frequently turn up.