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...Elm-shaded Fort Des Moines last week greeted the first WAACs-800 of them, 440 officer candidates and 360 auxiliaries. Twenty-one women reporters, twelve men reporters, 22 photographers were waiting for them. Thousands of press words choked the wires with intimate WAAC detail, so that U.S. citizens knew all about WAAC food, clothes, beds (short-sheeted by male Army pranksters), orchids, sore feet, the first ride in an Army truck, the lingerie drying racks in the laundry, the cannon at reveille, the embarrassed male non-com who said: "You in the blue dress, step forward...
Delta Kappa Epsilon ("Deke") opened an ice-cream bar. Undergraduates strolled up & down Elm Street and to classes in knee-length shorts. The Class of 1045W (for war), biggest freshman class (1,059) in Yale history, sweated at the biggest freshman rally. In substance, if not in form, life at Yale was much as usual last week. The college took in its stride its first summer opening and a new "Yale Plan," which compelled the student body to join up for war service to the last...
Here Jerome D. Greene, Secretary of the Corporation, showed him the original charter of Harvard College, and under the indirect lighting of the exhibit room Prado was presented with a part of the Washington elm by Mayor John J. Corcoran...
...Connecticut apple orchard at the foot of Naugatuck's Elm Street, ground was broken for U.S. Rubber Co.'s new $2,750,000 synthetic rubber plant. This is the first of four plants planned by Defense Plant Corp., which handles the financing, leaves the management to the companies. The other plants will be run by Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone. The U.S. Rubber plant when completed in about a year will have an annual capacity of 10,000 long tons-a little more than 1% of the 800,000 tons that the U.S. now consumes annually...
...main feature of the evening will be the presentation of a stone bench to the House by the staff. This seat is being given in memory of the late Chester Noyes Greenough '98, first Master of Dunster, and will be placed under the elm tree in the main court...