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...Women's Army Auxiliary Corps will be a year old next week. It has been a hard year because it was the first, with the administrative aches and growing pains of any big, new organization. Director Oveta Culp Hobby announced that enrollment had reached 58,100 by mid-April. That unvarnished figure meant, at first sight, that the Corps had achieved little more than a third of its quota (150,000) at the three-quarter mark of its authorized enrollment term ending July...
...House Committee prepared to throw in a few restrictions: 1) WAAC officers may command women only; 2) WAACs may not draw dependency pay from soldier husbands; 3) the WAAC's commanding officer, photogenic, 38-year-old Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby, may not rise above that rank. Thus with the, WAAC strength headed toward 375,000, Colonel Hobby will have more troops under her administrative control than several lieutenant generals...
Between testifying on Capitol Hill and looking after her command, Oveta Hobby took time out last week to nail a canard. Columnist Walter Winchell had reported that, as North Africa's "biggest problem," the WAACs might be sent home. Said Colonel Hobby of Winchell's item: "Not only . . . without foundation, but the WAACs there are performing their duties so satisfactorily that General Eisenhower has requested many more...
Texas' ex-Governor William Pettus Hobby, jowly, steady-eyed, 66-year-old publisher of the Houston Post, dropped into Manhattan with his much-photographed wife Oveta, head of the WAACs, said he felt the same as he had before she got famous. "Anything she does is all right with me," he declared. "We're all proud of her. She's doing her duty...
They may date enlisted men and noncommissioned officers until they are graduated. Dates with officers must wait until they are officers themselves. But no WAAC has yet been disciplined for conduct unbecoming an officer candidate. No recalcitrant WAAC will be sent to the guardhouse. Svelte, smart, serene Oveta Hobby, the director, suggests: "Dock'em." Colonel Faith's idea: "Curtail their privileges...