Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs had a horror of the small, ragged woman shuffling through the streets of Manila. No sentry detained her for long after he had discovered, beneath her thin blouse and the swathed bandages, the lesions of leprosy. But to thousands of U.S. prisoners, she was known affectionately as "Joey." Before the war, Mrs. Josefina Guerrero had been something of a belle in Manila society. She was young, pretty and vivacious. Her husband was a wealthy medical student at Santo Tomas University. They had a two-year-old daughter...
Last week Mrs. Guerrero, now a pale, scarred woman of 30, arrived in San Francisco. On the dock to greet her were Army officials, civic dignitaries, and a crowd of 300 veterans who remembered Joey. Bands played the Philippine national anthem. An Air Force plane waited to fly her to Carville. With her arms full of flowers, Joey could only stammer: "This more than I expected...
Finally the Hal Roach studio cast her as a scantily clad cave woman in a picture called One Million B.C. She hit the jackpot. A pressagent nicknamed her the "Ping Girl," explained somewhat illogically, "she makes you purr." The money, the cars, the house, the. clothes, the adulation followed...
Said the new member in a coy acknowledgment to Chairman Coy: "You are the first commissioner who has ever wanted a woman...
Born in Poland 43 years ago and educated in New York's public schools, Frieda Hennock bucked parental disapproval to study law. At 21 she became the youngest woman member of the New York State Bar. Later she joined the rock-ribbed Republican law firm of Choate, Mitchell & Ely, where she was the only woman lawyer and only Democrat. She has never married (although "I believe in marriage and I want the companionship of a wonderful...