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What's Yours Is Mine. At Fort Devens, Mass., Lieut. Charles F. DeBarger and WAC First Officer Mary Steinman DeBarger returned from their honeymoon, found they had both been made captains...
...Corps has wider age limits (20 to 50) and no restrictions on its size. WACs will get the same pensions as male soldiers, though no allowances for dependents. They will be under military discipline, including court-martial. They can also write "free" on their letters. WAC officers will rate with male opposite members; a first lieutenant will be called just that, not "second officer." The Corps will be a pedigreed part of the Army, shuck off the stepsister status of auxiliaries...
Before Sept. 30, all 65,000 WAACs will be given a chance to sign up with the WAC. War Department brass bonnets believe that all but a handful will do so, and say good riddance...
...hare and hounds run yesterday wac delayed by the neglect of the H. A. A. to provide paper for scent. When the hares, H. A. Davis, 91, and J. Manley, '93, finally started, it was already growing dark. About thirty hounds, under T. P. King, '91, as master, followed the trail to the Longfellow estate and back to Norton's woods, and there were thrown off by a double. They could not find the scent again on account of darkness, and returned, G. Lowell, '92, coming in first. The hares won the hunt as they continued through Somerville, North Cambridge...