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...Human beings are the most important things in the world," Miss Mac told them, "but the interesting discovery which hundreds and thousands of your contemporaries are making is that the supreme satisfaction comes to the person who is willing to give his own life so that other human beings can have opportunities he will never have. . . . The achievement of any woman of responsibility for the large purposes of the nation, the world, will speed the day which I used to think had already dawned, when women and men can be judged first as persons. . . . America calls...
...girls fainted during the sermon. Miss Mac remarked afterward: "Now I know how Frank Sinatra feels when he sends them...
...WACs. The WACs had used a publicity man's appeal to get results. Many a glamor girl got in a WAC recruiting line just for the gag. The WAVES hewed to a line that was dignified and stern. On one occasion a Brooklyn reporter heckled Miss Mac for a story on WAVE underwear. What was going to be regulation lingerie? Miss Mac set her teeth; the Navy did not care what the WAVES wore under their uniform. The reporter finally gave up. There was no story on WAVE underwear...
...stride. At first the Navy's odd terminology baffled her. She was taken aback when a male officer, discussing uniforms for WAVES. said he thought they should be designed so that blouses could be removed in the office. When another officer talked about "procuring" 10,000 women, Miss Mac's eyebrows climbed. But she quickly caught...
Certain Niceties. Unruffled Miss Mac adapted herself to Navy ways and used her wit to tactical advantage. At a Navy Day dinner in Manhattan the star of the speakers was Captain Mildred McAfee. With some misgivings, she salted her speech with a story of a British poster which WACs in England had hung in their barracks. The poster, she explained, was designed to make Britons appreciate the sacrifices of their soldiers. It showed a figure in bed under warm blankets while a British Tommy looked on from a muddy foxhole. The caption was: "This man would like...