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...Your Jan. 29 story regarding the commissioning of Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer to a lieutenant colonel in the Women's Air Force Reserve interested me very much, because I too would like to become a lieutenant colonel. My qualifications...
...TIME for snapping Lieut. Colonel Thayer's girdle. It reassures our confidence in leadership to see the Air Force so effectively buttress itself. Social champagne commissionings in the Pentagon boost the morale of the guys in Korea, especially anybody with less rank than lieutenant colonel . . . Best of all, this is swell strategy: when that company of fighting Chinese Communist females find out, they'll vamoose, fearing a barrage of empty champagne bottles from the "colonel's" plane...
...weighing the advantages and disadvantages of the few publicity-seeking Air Force officers who arranged this commission, as against the moral effect on the conscientious Air Force officer, I would say the thing to do is to decommission Miss Thayer and put her back in mothballs...
...regard to the statement that Miss Thayer's maid now answers the phone, "Colonel Thayer's residence," the only epithet I can think of that is fit to print is "Great Balls of Fire...
Caricature unfortunately does not work so well in the upper classes as in the lower. All the minor nobility seem to have fixed ideas of just how a Shakespearean actor gesticulates, and pattern their actions accordingly. Thayer David and John Lasell, however, happily have clear conceptions of the characters of Henry IV and Hal. The result is a subtle but clear change in the Prince's character which arises from his relationship with his father...