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Later, in the downtown club, the tall, handsome captain with a North Africa service ribbon on his uniform, was downing a stiff shot of brandy when a saucy, blonde WAC, an acquaintance, came...
...rate actress in second-rate companies," also: 1) pocketed $55,000 for the movie rights to her book; 2) publicly scratched Hollywood's eyes out when it offered her $1,200 a week ("I don't want any part of Hollywood"); 3) turned up as a blue-ribbon cook whose apple pies and chocolate layer cakes had won top prizes at the Michigan and North Carolina State fairs...
...March 22 issue of TIME a picture appears of Colonel Oveta Hobby. She is wearing the European Theater of Operations ribbon. Now has she been on active duty in the European Theater of Operations or not? The indiscriminate wearing of that ribbon provokes contempt among us soldiers who . . . literally sweat blood...
...Comely Colonel Hobby was entitled to wear the European Theater of Operations ribbon because of her three weeks' visit to England last November. At that time, the ribbons were given for service outside the continental U.S., however near and brief the assignment. On July 13 the regulations were tightened, and since then Colonel Hobby's shirt front has been ribbonless...
...African ribbon, with Star for action over Italian islands; the American Theater ribbon; the Army Good Conduct ribbon; the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters...