Word: wac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN ARMY, drawings by Fritz Kredel (Regnery; $12.50), is a spot of Americana for anyone interested in the nation's military past: 32 drawings in full color of the uniforms of the American army from Washington and the colonial rifleman to this year's WAC...
...other three components of the film, Dinah Shore's singing takes second by default; but her acting, as a saucy WAC, is indifferent at best. Served up by Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, the romance is undigestible and the buffet of Goldwyn girls clad in turquoise and pink pedal-pushers is not the most authentic picture of WAC regiments...
...near Kronberg, Germany. During the Allied air bombardment of Germany, Princess Margarethe secretly transferred the Hesse family jewels and memorabilia (estimated value: $3,000,000) from a Frankfort bank vault to a Friedrichshof subcellar and sealed the entrance. In 1945 the castle became an officers' club run by WAC Captain Kathleen Nash, who soon ferreted out the jewels, with two male officers smuggled her loot to the U.S. The following year, after Princess Margarethe discovered the theft, Army authorities tracked down the thieves and most of the treasure, found a pile of the missing jewels in a locker...
Television has been even kinder to Hollywood, supplying moviemen with such hit films as Bing Crosby's Little Boy Lost and José Ferrer's Anything Can Happen (both originally shown on TV Playhouse), and Rosalind Russell's Never Wave at a Wac (from Schlitz Playhouse). Last week Hollywood Producer Harold Hecht and Actor Burt Lancaster bought the script of Paddy Chayefsky's Marty, also seen on TV Playhouse...
...little girls' apparent sexual responses were reported by adults), from a wide variety of social, economy, and cultural backgrounds. Sample occupations-acrobat, archeologist, auditor, barmaid, chemist, dentist, dice girl, governess, laundress lawyer, missionary, politician, puppeteer, probation officer, prostitute, riveter, robber, social worker soda jerker, teacher, typist, U.N. delegate, WAC. *Less inhibited were some noted teenagers of the past. Says Kinsey: "Helen was twelve years old when Paris carried her off from Sparta Daphnis was 15 and Chloe was 13. Heloi'se was 18 when she fell in love with Abelard. Tristram was 19 when he first met Isolde...