Many a youthful World War II veteran, bedeviled by a social conscience, threw up his hands in horror at the notion of joining the stuffy, conservative American Legion, trooped over to the American Veterans Committee instead. Not so one group of reform-minded Manhattan newspapermen. Last spring they organized the Duncan-Paris Post (named for two war casualties from the staff of Yank). They elected left-wing Marion ("See Here, Private") Hargrove as their first commander, impertinently began to heckle their Legion elders.
Last week the Legion, awakening to the fact that it had a group...
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