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...England this week, the U.S. Women's Army Corps had the pleasantly apprehensive experience of being inspected by the Corps' Commanding Officer. Trim Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby, head woman of the WACs, found everything in order...
...women took it. By last week Hobby's army had only recovered the strength it had lost during that debacle. Today Hob by has requests from field commanders for 600,000 WACs. She has only 63,000 to supply. For the second time in her successful life Oveta Gulp Hobby has been really balked...
...Lawyer Gulp's Little Girl. People in Houston observed that even if Oveta Gulp Hobby had started as a private she would have soon become the colonel anyhow...
...Hobby's Washington apartment was elegant with antiques. (Friends who sublet it for a while kept their young son in the bathroom most of the time because they were afraid he would break some thing.) As busy as she was, Isaac William Gulp's little girl never lost her style, her poise, her figure. Guests admired the way she appeared on sweltering nights looking cool and handsome in dinner dresses with ruffles. She thought she looked best in yel low and chartreuse. She always had a weakness for absurd headgear and courageously indulged...
Said WAC Boss Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby, underlining the dismalness of the flop by declaring that there were almost half a million jobs in the Army which women could fill: "Nothing leads me to believe that we are going to get a volunteer army of 400,000 or 500,000 women. We've never been able to get a volunteer army of men that big." War Secretary Stimson hoped that U.S. women would come to feel a personal responsibility "in this total war." But he did not have much hope. Mr. Stimson's recommendation: compulsory service...