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...shaded Fort Des Moines last week greeted the first WAACs-800 of them, 440 officer candidates and 360 auxiliaries. Twenty-one women reporters, twelve men reporters, 22 photographers were waiting for them. Thousands of press words choked the wires with intimate WAAC detail, so that U.S. citizens knew all about WAAC food, clothes, beds (short-sheeted by male Army pranksters), orchids, sore feet, the first ride in an Army truck, the lingerie drying racks in the laundry, the cannon at reveille, the embarrassed male non-com who said: "You in the blue dress, step forward...
...recruiting stations got on officers' nerves. Cried a lieutenant in Manhattan: "Ladies, please, for gosh sake, shut up a minute!" Said another officer: "They're just as tough to handle in this recruiting office as they are in civilian life -see what I mean?" Recruiting for WAAC officers will continue until June 4. Then each of the nine corps areas will pick 60 names. The 450 women finally chosen from these will go to Fort Des Moines, Iowa for training, beginning July...
...recruiting got under way, the press -and the Roman Catholic Church- started a small hue-&-cry about woman's place being in the home. And the WAAC ruling that pregnancy means automatic discharge from the corps fetched a remark from Mrs. Margaret Sanger that the Army should give contraceptive information to WAACs...
...public relations that the Army's Colonel Ernest Dupuy asked her to head the Women's Division of the War Department's Bureau of Public Relations. Since last August she has filled the job so ably that there was never much doubt she would get the WAAC post. And her new job came as no surprise to people who knew her back in Texas as Assistant City Attorney of Houston before her marriage in 1931. Once she codified the State's banking laws...
...seemed to be an enquiry bureau to which students from the Gold Coast, Nigeria or Tanganyika came uninvited for help with examination papers in constitutional law. or advice as to where to buy winter woollens." Daughter of a Yorkshire farmer, Authoress Holtby was old enough to serve as a "Waac" (Woman's Army Auxiliary Corps) during the War; afterwards went to Oxford, where she took her M. A. in history at Somerville. An able speaker, a director of Time & Tide, Viscountess Rhondda's weekly, she lives a crowded, busy life in Chelsea, London's intellectual quarter...