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...Whitney's slight strength soon crumbled. She flaunted herself lustfully at the men, finally took up with Lance Diamond, a husky degenerate who had wangled a private room with a cot and kept himself in pocket money by renting it to furtive couples. Mrs. Jenks, once an ordinary matron, in time grew nearly as obnoxious as Lance. A persistent troublemaker, she called the young women "bitch" and "whore" to their faces. Most of the other prisoners just grew thinner and more depressed...
Cooler Sweaters. In Pittsburgh, a matron sent sweaters for the native girls living on the Pacific island where her husband was stationed, was horrified to hear that the girls had made them cooler by cutting two big holes in the front...
Newly arrived from Britain is a cheerful film, Back to Normal, showing young Britons merrily dancing and playing tennis and ping-pong, a carpenter at work with his tools, a child playing on a slide, a matron sedately pedaling a bicycle to market. What makes these ordinary goings-on extraordinary is the fact that all the actors are war-wounded cripples, with artificial arms or legs. The British Ministry of Information produced the film to reassure its bomb-battered people. It may be some comfort also to families of the 5,000-plus U.S. soldiers (the Navy has released...
Married. Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, 64, a widower since 1939, aloof, dictatorial publisher of Chicago's blatant Tribune; and Maryland Mathison Hooper, 47, sprightly, modish society matron, ex-Baltimore belle, longtime intimate of the Colonel and his late wife, recently divorced from Chicago Fuel Dealer Henry Hooper; both for the second time; in Chicago...
Some citizens actually took the Treasury's convenience measure to mean that they had to cash in their bonds. (One Philadelphia matron called her bank to explain that she could not get down that day and to ask if she could still get her money next day.) Some felt they need not hang on to their bonds any longer. One woman cashed in $1,000 worth "to bet on a race horse"; another got $75 to do her Christmas shopping "before the rest of the women pick over everything." A middle-aged couple cashed in $225 worth of bonds...