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Readers Wanted. The new Pic is a slicker two-bit, Esquire-like 120-page monthly aimed directly at the homebound G.I. Its thesis is that soldiers who yearned over pin-up girls in foxholes and wolf-howled in Paris will come home more sober and serious. To win them, Pic plans career pieces ("How G.I.s Can Become Farmers"), designs for living ("First Civvies in Five Years") and sidebar ticklers ("Widows Are Dangerous...
Faye Emerson, cinemactress wife of Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt, chatting cozily with the New Deal-hating New York Daily News, displayed some of the birthday gifts Elliott had given her-a pearl pin encrusted with diamonds and rubies; earrings to match; a gold cigaret lighter. Her hair had been blonde, long and straight, but: "I had it cut and now it's dark and short and curly, and nearly everyone thinks that Elliott's being unfaithful...
...Hooton is probably the only man in the world to deplore those "peculiarly localized fatty deposits" which seem to improve the morale of our fighting men by their presence in pin-up pictures...
...Snead drew his biggest cheer when he nonchalantly selected a No. 5 iron, blasted out of a trap with a 175-yd. carry dead to the pin...
...flight deck are faithfully scaled models of Helldivers, Hellcats, Avengers and Corsairs (donated by the manufacturers). Her innards-which visitors may see if they buy a war bond-contain a model of a carrier's boiler room, a section of enlisted men's quarters complete with pin-up girls on the bulkheads...