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...appreciate TIME publishing our communication about the work of this organization for the refugees in Free Viet Nam [May 23], Unfortunately, our wire used the wrong address. The contributions to aid these brave human beings who left everything behind to be free can be sent to Operation Brotherhood, 62 West 45th Street, New York...
...prize money meant as little to Suzy Volterra as the loss of her bet on Hafiz II. She had a winner for her husband's stables, and that was enough. Back in the saddling area, Alice Lady Derby congratulated her jockey on his fine ride and made brave plans for one more Derby...
...WAAC did not have full military status. Even the chaplains had to have special permission to distribute to WAACs the New Testaments that were issued routinely to servicemen. Moreover, WAACs who went overseas had no hospitalization or death benefits, and overseas volunteers were looked on as specially brave. Once, when Mrs. Hobby asked for volunteers, "there were 300 women in the room, of whom 298 volunteered upon the instant. At this, Director Hobby was unable to continue speaking and hastily sought privacy in a broom closet...
...many players as happened to be available, a field of any convenient size, a small ball, and long sticks looped with a rawhide mesh. Running up a score came second to the thrill of rapping an opponent over the scalp with "accidental" blows from the baggataway stick. Any brave who shirked his duty could count on a beating from the switch-equipped squaws who ranged the sidelines...
...Venus in droopy net stockings, ruffled corselet and a blonde wig suggesting Gorgeous George playing Lady Godiva. As Juno, Ballerina Viola Essen conveyed the bored allure of a Minsky stripper at the first morning show. And as Minerva, Ballet Theater Angel Lucia Chase achieved the air of a brave but discouraged workhorse whose limbs simply can no longer negotiate that hill. In the end, Dancer de Mille's tired but hefty seductiveness, climaxing in an elephantine cancan step, won the contest of the three disgraces...