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Died. Marie Wilson, 56, one of the most durable "dumb blondes" of show business; of cancer; in Hollywood. Wilson's bosomy innocence won her a Warner Brothers contract at age 15, and she started a series of forgettable films (Boy Meets Girl, Never Wave at a WAC) that established her stereotype. She attracted a national audience as the lovable dimwit in My Friend Irma, first on radio, then in two movies and finally for two years on television...
...military bases. It is pastorally appointed with sweeping greensward, tall stands of shortleaf pine and pleasing arrangements of whitewashed command buildings fronted by old-fashioned verandas. It is a small post, with slightly more than 5,000 people. But McClellan is unique in that 2,000 of those are WACs; it is the largest WAC base in the world. What is more, 20% of the WACs are black. More than any other single factor, that probably accounts for the disturbances that ended last week in which five black WACs were run down by a panicky white driver, a white soldier...
...Island, a wildlife preserve in the middle of San Francisco Bay, could be a priceless military museum as well. Instead, it is a monumental eyesore. An abandoned Nike site sits in a tangle of weeds. The remnants of a Japanese internment camp, a crumbling Civil War hospital and dilapidated WAC barracks are nearby. Shortly before the island was turned over to the California department of parks and recreation in 1963, says a parks official, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of pointless damage was done by the military itself. Fine old marble fireplaces in the turn-of-the-century Army...
...carries with it some perquisites that a mere major general might envy. Occupying Pentagon office 3E673, a capacious suite just across the corridor from General Johnson's headquarters, Wooldridge sits in a high-backed leather chair behind a large desk with a six-button phone, has a WAC receptionist and a full-time clerical assistant. At nearby Fort Myer, an air-conditioned, eight-room house has been remodeled for Wooldridge, his wife Barbara and their five children...
...wind-tunnel research and recipient, with his late father, Caltech Head Dr. Robert A. Millikan, of a 1949 Presidential Medal for Merit for their contribution to the development of the jet-assisted take-off rocket (1941) and the U.S.'s first successful high-altitude sounding rocket (the 1945 WAC Corporal); of congestive heart failure, in Pasadena, Calif...