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WAVES were given more comfortable quarters than Navy men are used to. "There are certain niceties it would be lovely for men to have too," Miss Mac said. "But if women don't have them their efficiency is jeopardized." One of those niceties was stall compartments for bunks, giving an effect of privacy. This was not pampering. Dr. Overholser, who has the job of caring for psychoneurotics among WAVES, thought that lack of privacy might be one factor in mental crackups among girls in uniform...
...Miss Mac also insisted on lounges for WAVE barracks. Men are permitted in these recreation rooms because, as Miss Mac says, "it usually takes two to achieve recreation...
Life in the Navy. As for Miss Mac, she lives alone-in a studio apartment in Washington. She does only what cooking is necessary. "It was a major event in my life when I learned to make a tossed salad." She reads herself to sleep. Her social life is moderately paced...
...current problems is the married WAVES. Many would like to rejoin soldier and sailor husbands who have come back from overseas. It is a problem which is giving Miss Mac much concern. As she once said, "Women can be efficient and professional and still be women...
...would also like to get back to the life she left. She remains steadfast to her duty in Washington, but she will get out "just as fast as the law and the Navy will allow." Actually, Miss Mac vows, she may wait only for the law. "I am still sure colleges are my role and nothing has made me more sure of it than life in the Navy." Miss Mac could only guess at the feelings of 82,000 other WAVES...