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...days Washington and the U.S. Lave hissed with rumors of WAAC immorality and misconduct, which have made many women reluctant to enlist. O'Donnell gave the rumors wings and beak, reporting the rumors and then refuting them in such a way as to leave doubt whether he was taking it back...
...Catholic to marry, is now a lieutenant in the Navy. Benson Ford, 23, alone of the grandchildren, has his grandfather's keen blue eyes and much of his tremendous energy. Rejected in the draft (he is almost blind in one eye) he got special War Department permission to enlist, is now in officers' training school. Both he and Henry II are directors in the company. The youngest son, William Clay Ford, just 18, is a Naval air cadet...
...only physical flaw is a technicality: a slow heart that beats 55 instead of the normal 75 times a minute. This kept him out of World War I when he tried to enlist-until his pastor had him ordained so that he could take a chaplain's commission. Political opponents have tried without success to smear him as a draft dodger. Otherwise the slow heart bothers no one but doctors feeling the Bricker pulse for the first time...
Soul for Sale. Nadi's greatest disappointment is that the value of fencing as combat training has so far been largely overlooked by U.S. armed forces. Convinced that "nothing could be more useful to our flyers," he tried to enlist as a Navy physical instructor after Pearl Harbor, was incredulous when the Navy declined his offer. Cries Nadi: "I would sell my soul to be allowed to take charge of physical instruction for the aviators...
...Navy does not bend easily. But it is now up against the women. The Navy wants to enlist 70,000 women this year. Hereafter, said the Navy last week, relaxing one of its ironclad rules, WAVES, Coast Guard SPARS and Marine Reserves may marry anyone they choose. Hitherto, they had been forbidden to marry within their own branch of the service (i.e., a WAVE could marry a Coast Guardsman or a marine, but not a Navy...