How do you pronounce the title?
“Mash?”
“M-A-S-H?” (spelled out?)
Like the word ‘mash’. I’ve never heard anyone use any other pronunciation.
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, to answer the second question.
“Hawkeye” because his father only read one book. It’s a nickname, by the way. He’s Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce.
“Trapper John” because… oh, never mind.
‘Mash’ as in "I will mash potatoes’. I’ve never heard anyone
spell it out, including in commercials on tv or movie critics giving reviews.
Thanks everyone!
Or… THANK*S 
In the show itself, the characters often refer to their “MASH Unit” or “MASH 4077” pronouncing it like the verb to mash.
Did HYMAN KAPLA*N serve there?
Dude. We’re OLD.
Be thankful Hawkeye’s dad didn’t read “The Rape of the APE!”
Of course, that explanation makes no sense after it was revealed that his dad is a doctor.
I remember a promotion on TV which Alan Alda did when the series was about to premier, in which, after pronouncing it “mash”, he made a play on the pronunciation: “‘M star, A star, S star, H’, like the all-star movie it’s based on”.
I used to have an odd paperback collection of jokes, limericks, and humorous short stories. HYMAN KAPLA*N was involved.
You left out the three levels of underlining (and the colors. C’mon, man, BB code does colors!)
(What can I say? My eye fell on it.)
Not in the book. His dad was a lobsterman.
He was also married, and I believe the series made allusions to his wife and children before they decided to make him a bachelor.
Okay, someone hadda do it…
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Even if we can’t do the blue outlining and multiple underlining.
Spearchucker also appeared before the cut him.
And Ugly John was in [del]an episode[/del] eleven episodes, according to IMDB. I haven’t read the books, but he was in the movie.
He was old news before the Korean War. Ain’t none of us here old enough to read him fresh in The New Yorker. I found the books in the library. Leo Rosten was brilliant. He should be remembered as much as Hemingway and Faulkner, but that particular strain of humor is too dated for today’s world.
MAS*H is the most fascinating case of what happens to a work as its audience broadens. The novel is much blacker humor than the movie which is much blacker humor than the TV show, although that was probably the blackest humor up to its time. Kind of amazing that it worked at all. Most black humor from that time never translated properly out of print.
Sad that his most famous line is usually attributed to W. C. Fields. Rosten wrote it about Fields: “Anyone who hates dogs and babies can’t be all wrong.”
Rosten obviously never met Heinrich Himmler. 
Trivia note: The book was written by W.C. Heinz, whom I remember mainly as a boxing writer/commentator.