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...Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (TIME, May 18) came into legal being last week. Immediately Secretary Stimson appointed as director one of the most remarkable Texans in Washington: Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, 37-year-old mother of two. Her rank corresponds to that of an Army major. Slim, trim, quiet and pretty, Mrs. Hobby has a taste for fancy hairdos and shocking hats. In the Corps she will wear a uniform hat, but will probably continue to ruin the hairdos by running her hands through her pompadour while thinking. She does a lot of thinking. Her husband, former Texas...
Kansas Boy. Harold Dewey (born in 1898) Smith is stocky, sandy-haired, has pale blue eyes behind trim hectagonal spectacles, a mustache so colorless that it seldom shows in photographs. He grew up on a Kansas wheat farm, worked his way through the University of Kansas by building houses. He thought of teaching in China but became an expert on municipal government instead, wound up as Michigan's Budget Director under Governor Frank Murphy...
...with the smile and the seersucker suit extended a big hand. "I'm glad you're here," he said simply. The trim, high-domed man in the brownish-purplish suit answered: "I'm glad to be here...
...That massive power plants, trim airports, handsome broadcasting stations and telephone buildings, gleaming factories and farflung highways, truly express the character of the day. Says Hugh Ferriss: "Architecture never lies...
...Bethpage, Long Island, a trim new plane raced down the runway, lifted, climbed up, up, up almost beyond hearing, then peeled off into a grinding power-dive. Fresh off the assembly line, another Grumman Avenger, the Navy's new, deadly torpedo plane, was in the torturing rigors of its shakedown flight...