Word: sparseness
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Captain Mildred McAfee, brisk, athletic, curly-haired head of the WAVES, ardent feminist, suggested that since volunteer lady hostesses "resent" having WAVES, WACs, SPARs and women marines at their servicemen's parties, husbands of hostesses ought to get together and entertain servicewomen. One of her WAVES had told her...
After hearing the Navy's announcement, the Coast Guard, usually the most liberal branch of service with regard to Negroes, promptly followed suit with a similar plan for the SPARs. The Marine Corps said it had all the women marines it needed, except for replacements.
In a way, the WASPs, who had done a man-sized job of flying for the Army, had asked for it. Through their head woman, famed speed-flying Jacqueline Cochran (wife of tycoon Floyd B. Odlum), they had demanded the same military status as the WACs, WAVEs, SPARs and Women...
The battle began more than two years ago, when the Senate Naval Affairs Committee's bumbling, lumbering isolationist chairman, David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, inserted a no-overseas-duty amendment to the bill creating the women's reserve. (WACs have long been overseas.) Whenever Navy brass hats appeared...
No Name Hotel--Dividing the attentions of two Spars three ways, Art Marx, Bob Stewart, and Jim Rafferty had many rounds of mixes. But they soon found that these young ladies were old Navy hands, so they left early in despair.