Word: wac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WAC +Sex) = Box Office TNT Scriptwriter Stanley Shapiro and Director Blake Edwards (This Happy Feeling), two of the most promising young masters of movie comedy, have applied the formula with such style that the studio has been able to guarantee the customers exactly 287 (count 'em) laughs without fear of refund. And while the public rolls in the aisles, the professionals should take careful notice. Furlough is a definitive encyclopedia of comic cliche...
...story gets off to a brisk start with Cliché No. 1: an Army outpost in the Arctic, in which 104 G.I.s sit stiff with boredom. Until Cliché No. 2, a gorgeous psychologist (Janet Leigh) of the WAC, recommends a policy of vicarious leave-send one man on a perfect furlough and let the others enjoy themselves thinking about it. The scheme naturally produces Cliché No. 3, a shamelessly corporeal corporal (Tony Curtis), who wins the raffle and is shipped off to spend three weeks in Cliché No. 4, Paris, with Cliché No. 5, a South...
...chomping Executive Editor (and Board Member) Arthur Emmett Laro, 46, whose first move on taking over as managing editor in 1947 was to fire twelve staffers. He got a free hand from his publishers, Texas' onetime (1917-20) Governor William P. Hobby and his wife, Oveta Gulp, wartime WAC commander and the nation's first (1953-55) Health, Education and Welfare Secretary. In ten years Laro has quadrupled his editorial staff (to 110) and kept Houston humming with such solidly documented exposés as hawk-faced City Editor Ralph O Leary's biting inside report...
...tennis team but had little chance to play. She was bored and restless, and in one year her ranking fell so far that she was no longer listed among the country's top ten players. Althea was ready to quit. She all but decided to join the WAC and use a lieutenant's salary to help her family...
...Tennessee's Mrs. Estes Kefauver in two shades of green chiffon. Blazing the way toward a new style was Mrs. Randolph Burgess, wife of the Under Secretary of the Treasury: in place of a corsage, she sported a miniature display of the medals that she won as a WAC in World War II. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who does not hold with such flossy doings, hovered so long behind the punch bowl that a fellow finally offered him a cupful. Scotch-Drinker Mr. Sam was incredulous: "Are you serious?" he asked. This was the last chance this year...