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...approached the building with some trepidation. Looks pretty gruesome, he thought, as he viewed the big red crosses in the windows. But then he read the inscription above the door: "Through This Door Pass Those Who Willingly Gave Their Blood in the Cause of Freedom . . ." Gee, it makes me feel like one of Earl Carroll's girls, he said to himself, and feeling much better, he pushed open the door...
...well costumed were the actors who took female roles in the production that most of the audience was deceived as to their sex for a long time. When they learned the truth there was much complaining on all sides, a typical remark being, "Aw gee, we didn't think it was them kind of blondes." One poor confused selectee even went so far as to proffer a bouquet of flowers to the leading "lady," Dick Whittemore...
...found our fears gravely confirmed when, emerging from the subway the other day, we chanced to overhear two young ladies who were quite absorbed in the blue-clocked splendor of a West Pointer sweeping by. "Gee," we heard one of them question, "d'ya s'pose he's Australian...
...could crawl inside flying-boat wings, hold rivets in place while workmen outside hammered away with rivet guns. Brewster's skinniest workers found the chore a squeezing torture, could stand it for only a few minutes at a time. Along came 19-year-old Johnny Giovenco ("Johnny Gee" for short), a Brooklyn mechanic who usually had a hard time getting a job because he was only four feet high, weighed 88 Ib. He quickly got an inside job with Brewster. After New York newspapers printed his picture, little men swarmed to the Brewster plant. Last week three more were...
...still hanker after gauze and goddesses. The Army's prime favorite is still James Montgomery Flagg's World War I Uncle Sam, pointing imperiously and saying: "I Want YOU." The Navy's oldtime winner was a throat-catcher Howard Chandler Christy-a wistful girl who says: "Gee, I wish I were a man-I'd join the Navy." The Navy is itching to use it again...