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...theirs but the nation's: U.S. women still refused to join up. That was Colonel Hobby's headache-and to a lesser degree it has become the headache of Captain Mildred H. McAfee of the WAVES, Commander Dorothy C. Stratton of the SPARS and Lieut. Colonel Ruth Cheney Streeter of the Marine Women's Reserve...
...Marine-straight women in green walked even more proudly last week. Their commander, efficient Ruth Cheney Streeter, had been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. There was another reason...
...head its Women's Reserve, the Marine Corps had already picked 47-year-old Ruth Cheney Streeter of Morristown, N.J., wife of a retired banker. Her three sons are in the service (two Navy ensigns, one Army reserve private...
...Brainard Cheney follows his Lightwood (TiME, Oct. 30, 1939) with a book which puts him high among the strictly regional novelists-a book so good (when it is) that its weaknesses are doubly deplorable. Through the career of Hero Rutliff ("Snake") Sutton, Cheney tells the history of raftsmanship along Georgia's Oconee and Altamaha Rivers, and describes the business of lumbering in Darien, on the Georgia coast, toward the end of the last century...
...Brainard Cheney writes with the homely hardness of a grindstone. At his best he is a master at making detail, action and physical sensation palpable, and almost Homerically fresh. At his worst he is a pedestrian writer, capable of serious lapses of literary judgment, but enormously sensitive to a certain landscape and a certain people. If he ever wrestles a subject his size with grace as well as grit, he may make literary history...