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...present a member of the WAVE reserves, she served with the Navy from November 1943 to June 1946. During this time she did personnel work, acting as the head resident of a WAVE dormitory, an assistant in a snack bar, a floor scrubber, and a secretary...
Marie Drazdorf dumped piles of mail into the stove. Proposals of marriage, she knew they were, from gentlemen, knaves and louts who yesterday would not have noticed a sweeper of floors, a scrubber of steps. She burned everything without opening an envelope. Half of them were begging letters, too; boasts from dressmakers, stores offering credit, lawyers offering advice. . . . Marie Drazdorf spent some of her savings for a new suit for her boy, but she told her man, Josef Raff, to keep on working like the steady man he was. They would wait for the fortune to come in July. Then...