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...Oveta Culp Hobby retired last week from active status in the Army. The pretty, 40-year-old Texan who ran the Women's Army Corps for three crowded years passed her colonel's eagles over to another woman. Then she embraced her staff, patted her carefully coiffed, blue-tinted hair and, moist-eyed, departed. Awaiting her in Houston, Tex., were her collection of Georgian silver and rare books, her private life with her two children and husband William Pettus Hobby, 67, the executive position she had left on her husband's Houston Post. Her reason for resigning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Hobby Out | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...newspaper [in Montreal] published a critic and not so nice like every one else. . . . Immagine, this said that I ... am lower of ... Julia Culp!" From Havana he wrote: "... A newspaper say a good thinks and in the same day say bad thinks." His love letters might have been a literal translation of an aria: "My Big Piece of Gold," he wrote from tour, "you make me feel so emotionated that I start to cry again! I reed you and skratce my head because it seams that all my breans . . . is full of you." Of five-month-old Gloria: "Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Emotionated Singer | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby, WACommander, was a patient in the Army's huge Brooke General Hospital in San Antonio. Pending a complete medical checkup, her ailment was diagnosed as "exhaustion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 10, 1944 | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...members of the Women's Army Corps are proud of our leader, Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby, and grateful for the privilege to work with our men in the Army of the U.S. as soldiers to help in the best way we can to help win this war quickly. We are ashamed of the women of America who refuse to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: San Diego, Calif. | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...Women's Army Auxiliary Corps will be a year old next week. It has been a hard year because it was the first, with the administrative aches and growing pains of any big, new organization. Director Oveta Culp Hobby announced that enrollment had reached 58,100 by mid-April. That unvarnished figure meant, at first sight, that the Corps had achieved little more than a third of its quota (150,000) at the three-quarter mark of its authorized enrollment term ending July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Stepsister Corps | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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