Word: wac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Kay Summersby, 43, Irish-born WAC captain who became General Eisenhower's wartime driver, aide, confidential secretary, later told her story in Eisenhower Was My Boss; and Reginald H. Morgan, 47, Manhattan broker, she for the second time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
...Fort Lee, Va., where she is making a movie on life in the WAC. Cinemactress Rosalind Russell misjudged her timing in boarding a fast-moving truck and ended up in the infirmary with 17 stitches in her right leg. Said she: "If the accident leaves any scars, I can at least say I got them in the Army...
...Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle; book by Flournoy Miller & Paul Gerard Smith) is an almost totally different show from the one that Broadway took to its heart in 1921. Unhappily, in fact, it is not really a show at all. A ragged World War II yarn about a lively WAC widow whose husband turns out not to be dead, it shambles and stumbles along in the choking dust of old dialect gags, while the music and dancing seem to prolong the agony rather than interrupt it. From the old days, Shuffle Along has wisely retained I'm Just Wild About...
Eunice Barzynski, a WAC captain on his staff, later married her. After two years of occupation duty, Draper was called home to become Under Secretary of the Army. Then, before he could get deeply back in investment banking, New York's Governor Dewey asked him late in 1950 to take over the debt-ridden, wreck-ridden Long Island Rail Road. When he accepted, The New Yorker quipped: "He has a good head for aches...
...year-old contributor to the 45th Division News, Mauldin's drawings (of which this book reprints 439) retained most of the stock situations of the civilian cartoonist's view of the army. There were the gags about KP, guard duty, and the soldier whose wife turns up in the WAC's. But as you thumb through this handsome book, as Mauldin's outfit moves from training stateside to Sicily, then Italy, the top sergeant gags disappear. Instead there are the drawings that eventually took Mauldin away from his division and gave his a job doing them full time...