Word: wac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently everybody wanted to meet the tall, lean, animated County Cork girl who was Ike's chauffeur. That summer General George Patton invited her and WAC Ruth Briggs (General "Beetle" Smith's secretary) over to Sicily to lunch...
After the war Kay came to the U.S., stayed in the WAC (in which she had been commissioned despite her British citizenship). She had already applied for U.S. citizenship. Demobilized last year, she now lives in Manhattan, is planning radio broadcasts and a two-year U.S. lecture tour...
Beauteous Kay Summersby, the onetime Mayfair dress model and WAC captain who drove Ike Eisenhower's staff car, had finished a book called Eisenhower Was My Boss. An excerpt from Kay's preface was used in a long blurb for the syndicated newspaper rights: "It is, in a way, a report to women, other women ... I was to work and eat and ride and laugh and drink and play and suffer with the famous commander ... I was to know love, intimately. And I was to know, just as intimately, the unspeakable pain of losing my lover in battle...
...Jews of Europe had to wear long curls; many young Israelis of Tel Aviv favor crew cuts in the American-or Prussian-style. Israeli girls, who run to the buxom bucolic type, stride the streets in slacks or shorts. Many have gone into the CHEN, Israeli version of the WAC. The young people turn their backs on sentimental, nostalgic, masochistic traditional Jewish art. Such plays as the great Yiddish drama, The Dybbuk, draw an almost unanimous "it stinks" from the sabras. Their strong, bronzed young hands have no tendency to rend their open-necked sport shirts in grief...
Radcliffe cracked the ranks of officers with the election of Elizabeth Russo '50, a WAC veteran, as executive secretary. Other new officers are Richard Lyman 1G, recording secretary, and Richard K. Brown '46, treasurer and financial chairman. Seven committee heads were also named...