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...Navy building across from Arlington Cemetery swiftly labored last week the first ruler of the WAVES, Lieut. Commander Mildred Helen McAfee. Her job: to organize and boss 11,000 Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service. The job was big: Director Oveta Hobby had spent eleven months planning the WAACs, had training well underway at Fort Des Moines. Miss McAfee was starting almost from scratch...
...Director Oveta Gulp Hobby, a colonel's eagles on her shoulders and the WAAC's Pallas Athene on her lapels, reviewed her charges for the first time last week. Said she: "Military tradition has given way to a pressing need and you are the first women to serve as an auxiliary force with the United States Army. Never forget it. You have taken off silk and put on khaki. And all for essentially the same reason-you have a debt and a date. A debt to democracy, a date with destiny...
...chronicling the appointment of Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby [TIME, May 25] you mentioned her husband, William Pettus Hobby, as being a "former Texas Governor." I am wondering if you didn't "miscue" on that one. Just when was William Pettus Hobby a Governor of Texas? Although I have never been "deep in the heart of Texas," I have kept a fairly keen eye on the political goings-on of the Lone Star State for the past 20 years, and I cannot recall that any man by the name of William Pettus Hobby has been elected Governor of Texas during...
...Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (TIME, May 18) came into legal being last week. Immediately Secretary Stimson appointed as director one of the most remarkable Texans in Washington: Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, 37-year-old mother of two. Her rank corresponds to that of an Army major. Slim, trim, quiet and pretty, Mrs. Hobby has a taste for fancy hairdos and shocking hats. In the Corps she will wear a uniform hat, but will probably continue to ruin the hairdos by running her hands through her pompadour while thinking. She does a lot of thinking. Her husband, former Texas...
...sister is slight, 35-year-old, soft-spoken Oveta Gulp Hobby. She is used to getting things done. Executive vice president and assistant editor of the Houston Post, she was a director of the Cleburne National Bank...