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...work looking like Goldie Hawn in Swing Shift. Peggy Terry, who loaded shells at a plant in Viola, Ky., recalls that the tetryl in explosives turned skin, hair and eyeballs orange: "The only thing we worried about," she says, "was other women thinking we had dyed our hair." Evelyn Fraser, a former WAC captain in Europe, had more somber preoccupations: "The shocking thing was to walk s among Germans and see them as human beings, and then see Dachau. It was so difficult to put together...
...Antonia Fraser, 52, author of the newly published The Weaker Vessel, on her efforts to be an objective feminist historian: "Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God if she exists...
...burly, 6-ft. 5-in. U.A.W. leader, who has faced the tough task of setting his mark on the union since he succeeded the popular and almost legendary Douglas Fraser last year, felt he had little choice but to authorize the selective shutdown...
...Fraser thinks the 17th century woman's limited emancipation crested in midcentury, when Oliver Cromwell shook the established ways of English society. By the end of the century the punishing cycle of a woman's life and the pendulum of history had swung women's status back to just about where it was 100 years before. But in the meantime, women had talked. Women had thought for themselves. In Eraser's phrase, history held the door open briefly and, as we who read the 17th century with 20th century eyes know, nothing was ever quite...
NONFICTION: Bloods, Wallace Terry The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944, Lucjan Dobroszycki, Editor ∙ The Death Merchant, Joseph C. Goulden ∙ Josephine Herbst, Elinor Langer ∙ The Weaker Vessel, Antonia Fraser Writers at Work, George Plimpton, Editor