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Last week, when the returns were in, the committee found that 1949's "Miss Quonset Point" was Mrs. Eva Clausen, who sweeps up in the huge Overhaul and Repair shop. Mrs. Clauson is 43, the wife of a disabled World War I veteran, mother of five children, and plain. But every worker in the 0. & R. shop knows Eva. She listens to their troubles, smiles at their jokes. Bluejackets and civilian workmen call her "Olive Oyl." And some 500 of them voted...
...stiff-necked Captain Donald F. Smith was amazed. The contest, he declared, had "degenerated into a farce." The committee meekly called it off. Explained a disgruntled committeeman: "The good captain didn't want to be seen walking down the aisle with a sweep woman on his arm." Mrs. Clauson sadly announced that she would not attend the ball at all. Promptly, some 800 other workers turned in their tickets. Said one: "If this contest is for the lieutenants' girl friends, then let the lieutenants go to the ball...
...committee begged Mrs. Clauson to attend the ball as a "hostess" along with the 25 losing contestants. They pleaded that proceeds of the ball were to establish a civilian-worker welfare fund. They took her shopping, bought her a complete new outfit and a few hours in a beauty parlor. They arranged to pick her up in a 1949 Lincoln. Mrs. Clauson relented. All over the base, signs went up: "Our Queen Eva will be there tonight-how about...
...night of the ball, some 4,000 people came to Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet. Permanent-waved and smartly turned out, Mrs. Clauson was trembling when she took her place with the other hostesses to greet guests. Captain Smith arrived, and everybody watched to see what he would do. He breezed right by Mrs. Clauson without a word. Soon, she retired to the cloakroom, and talked with the hatcheck girls. After a while, she helped them check hats & coats...
...Albert Charles Clauson, until recently Lord Justice of Appeal...