THIS WEEK'S HONORARY UNSUBSCRIBE goes to Hartzell Spence. A writer, Spence was a founder and executive editor of Yank, a weekly magazine for American troops during World War II. The magazine boosted the morale of the overseas soldiers not just with its cartoons such as "Sad Sack", which Spence commissioned from an Army sergeant, but also with something Spence called a "pinup" -- photographs of lightly-clad beauties of the time, such as Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable and Hedy Lamarr. When Spence was designing the magazine, he said "We've got to have a pinup," Yank's cartoon editor, Ralph Stein, remembers. "None of us had ever heard the term. I think Hartzell might have invented it." The Oxford English Dictionary agrees. Spence died May 9 in Connecticut at age 93.
Neat Janis. (not that he un-subbed) I think I remember Sad Sack..... ??? This is a nice bit of history. akth > THIS WEEK'S HONORARY UNSUBSCRIBE > > goes to Hartzell Spence. A writer, Spence was a founder and executive > editor of Yank, a weekly magazine for American troops during World War > II. The magazine boosted the morale of the overseas soldiers not just > with its cartoons such as "Sad Sack", which Spence commissioned from an > Army sergeant, but also with something Spence called a "pinup" -- > photographs of lightly-clad beauties of the time, such as Rita Hayworth, > Betty Grable and Hedy Lamarr. When Spence was designing the magazine, he > said "We've got to have a pinup," Yank's cartoon editor, Ralph Stein, > remembers. "None of us had ever heard the term. I think Hartzell might > have invented it." The Oxford English Dictionary agrees. Spence died May > 9 in Connecticut at age 93.
Doh~! Oops~! I was thinkun Beetle Bailey. <LOL> :-) <shakingmyhead> kath > THIS WEEK'S HONORARY UNSUBSCRIBE > > goes to Hartzell Spence. A writer, Spence was a founder and executive > editor of Yank, a weekly magazine for American troops during World War > II. The magazine boosted the morale of the overseas soldiers not just > with its cartoons such as "Sad Sack", <<<<