Word: wac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...downtown Boston, Bob Hart and Steve Hebdon found the service very poor at the date bureau. They finally left with two WAC officers who apparently were also disappointed with the service...
Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, whose second ex-wife married his onetime personal pilot a fortnight ago (TIME, July 3), made marital news himself. The Tribune of Wisconsin Rapids. Wis., acting on a report from Newsweek that he was engaged to the town's WAC Captain Ruth Briggs (see cut), saw Captain Briggs' mother, Mrs. Franz Rosebush. Said she: "Yes, it's true, but I wasn't going to announce it until Ruth said so." Newsweek had also mentioned Mary Churchill and the widowed Duchess of Kent as possible fiancees. Walter Winchell leaped into the fray, reprinted...
There are thousands of women in the Civil Service with the Army and Navy who have come in for "the duration and six months after." They are releasing men and doing their work just as efficiently as any WAC, WAVE, SPAR or woman Marine. But no one hears about them. They get no credit; and they should, as the work they are doing is just as vital. They get no glamorous uniforms, no pictures and send-off in the papers when they join up. They have no housing and rations given them, no hospitalization (unless actually injured at work...
...most notable member of the official family is Spaatz's WAC aide, Captain Sally Bagby, a tall, slim brunette from New Haven, Mo., who functions as the General's confidential secretary, personal batwoman, mess hostess, badminton opponent ("I'm the only one he can beat"), wardrobe checker-upper and last line of defense against bores and time-wasters...
Missfit. In Camp Edwards, Mass., 280-lb. Sergeant Louis Fosburgh ordered a pair of summer pants, size 46, received a smartly tailored WAC skirt, size...