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...were it the "breakfast table education" of old, the former soldiers, sailors, and marines--without running into any Pollyannaisms consider themselves pretty fortunate. They're making the best of the present and are hopeful for the future. But dropping the past has been a little difficult, a stoutish ex-Wac confided. "I guess I've grown out of this khaki girdle...
...WAC Captain Kathleen B. Nash, 43, of Phoenix, Ariz.; Colonel J. W. Durant of Falls Church, Va., whom Captain Nash had just married; Major David F. Watson of Burlingame, Calif.; and a prowling corporal who had discovered the cache under bottle rows of rare old wine. Both the Durants were on terminal leave...
...debris-an officer's cap, a parachute, the wing of a plane. On the skyscraper's 58th floor, beyond a gaping hole in the wall, lay the rest, the wreckage of an Army light Beechcraft transport, the bodies of its Army pilot and four passengers, including a WAC officer...
Into Berlin's press camp breezed a pretty young ex-WAC introduced as Vivian Cox, an "expert" attached to the Military Directorate. Sitting on a desk and dangling her long, nylon-clad legs, Miss Cox answered indignant newsmen's questions in a pleasant Southern drawl. How would "militaristic" be defined, asked one reporter. Replied Miss Cox: "It's the way the Germans have of waging war." How would "democratic" be defined? Said Miss Cox: "Everything American people think and call democratic." Was the order different in principle from Nazi book burnings? No, not in Miss...
...WAC Corporal is a graceful, pencil-slim, 1,000-pound rocket, 16 feet long and 12 inches in diameter. Booted along at supersonic speeds by the combustion of liquid hydrocarbon, she aims to search out secrets of the ionosphere (super-stratosphere). The Army announced last fortnight that, on her first try, the Corporal rose 43½ miles into the blue, came down by parachute...