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...nearly ten years the burned and battered body of an unidentified, pajama-clad young woman lay in a tank of Formalin in Sydney University's Pathological Museum. When the streetcars rumbled past, she bobbed gently...
Last week the two mysteries merged: astonished Antonio Agostini, bereft husband of the "Pajama Girl," wriggled desperately, impaled upon the point of Mrs. Flemington's relentless pen. Police charged the beefy sometime silk merchant, now a waiter, with murdering his wife, Linda Platt, daughter of Mrs. Flemington by an earlier marriage...
Years ago Australian police had sent Mrs. Flemington photos of the Pajama Girl. She had denied that the mangled face could be her daughter's. But she kept on having dreams that her daughter was afloat. Last month a weary Sydney detective, rereading a Flemington appeal, had a hunch: a dentist was found who could say positively that the Pajama Girl's dentistry tallied with Linda's. After that, everyone remembered details-how the pretty, sharp-featured Linda had clerked in a store, ushered in a cinema, shipped as hairdresser on Red Star liners; how Antonio...
Like G.I. Joes, a few got in serious jams. A few overstayed leave. A few got fed up and went on mild benders. But for the most, behavior was average young female. They put wet towels in each other's beds, tied knots in pajama legs. They griped about red tape, uniforms that did not fit, hats not "as cute as the Marine women's." They might refer to an unpopular officer privately as "that bitch." To the surprise of most males, they got along together just as well...
...Down. He's Up: In Washington, OPA announced that it would be all right for laundries to stop sewing on pajama and underwear buttons, all right for cleaners not to bother with getting the lint and cigaret ashes out of trouser cuffs. But cigaret retailers who gave away matches a year ago last March must keep on giving them away, said...