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Indiana's Geologist Jesse James Galloway, 70, expert on foraminifera (a group of microfossils) and the first man to give a course in micropaleontology. In his 24 years at Indiana, he taught hundreds of students how to tell a fossil's age, was always so fascinated by his own subject that he once flabbergasted the officials of a busy bank by crawling about on his hands and knees, searching for fossils in the marble wall. Though a tough teacher (during an examination he strolled among his students whistling Have You Forgotten So Soon?), he had an unorthodox contempt...
With Tallulah Bankhead, Fred MacMurray, Wally Cox, Cab Galloway...
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...lingering doubt that the Women's Army Corps (present strength: 12,000) has not become a part of the regular Army in spirit as well as fact was dispelled last week with the appointment of its fourth director, Lieut. Colonel Irene O. Galloway of Carroll County, Iowa. The announcement that Miss Galloway is to succeed Colonel Mary A. Hallaren in the WAC high command not only avoided feminine gushiness but actually achieved the box-score inscrutability which has been the hallmark of soldierly prose from time immemorial...
...present director's comment on her successor-"wholesome, energetic and efficient" -was also regular (male generals usually refer to their successors as "fearless, brilliant and dynamic"). But it was evident, nevertheless, that WAC brass is still feminine in exercising at least one prerogative of command-Lieut. Colonel Galloway's age (44) was listed nowhere in her official biography...