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General Dwight D. Eisenhower celebrated his 55th birthday in fine style. He went to a Frankfurt am Main football game, raced his friend General Georgie Patton across the field. Into his box popped an impulsive WAC private, who bussed him soundly. Some 20,000 G.I.s rose and sang, "Happy Birthday, Dear General...
...Russians were dickering for $750 million in goods, the Dutch for $250 million. Rich merchants from India, with rubies as big as turkey hearts in their turbans, wandered about Washington, seeking bargains. But there was just too much to carry away in a hurry. And who wanted used WAC uniforms, old-fashioned traction splints and Elizabeth Arden black face cream for night attacks...
...Tillie the Toiler was already out of the WAC; Skeezix (home on rotation) and Harold Teen (making offstage noises from his Navy station) will soon be discharged...
...last week, after ten months' operation, Detroit's Institute had enrolled scores of veterans, including a WAC and ,a woman marine. In nine days, one veteran completed a course that normally takes 100. Four G.I.s earned diplomas in the first five months; eleven more have been graduated since. For the new term beginning next week, 200 Detroit G.I.s have enrolled in evening classes, and a hundred more in day classes...
...were her collection of Georgian silver and rare books, her private life with her two children and husband William Pettus Hobby, 67, the executive position she had left on her husband's Houston Post. Her reason for resigning: "My mission . . . has been completed." The strength of the WAC stood at 100,000; WACs were serving capably around the world...