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...WAC was leaving food on its plate. Worried, the Quartermaster Corps ordered nutrition experts to investigate. Last week the experts reported that the WACs were doing their best, advised the Army to quit trying to founder its women with regular G.I. rations (potatoes for breakfast, double helpings...
Forthwith the Army dropped 54 items from the WAC menu, thought it could save $2,700,000 on its food bill...
...unforeseen obstacle to" WAC recruiting was the kēpi-like, cheesebox dress uniform cap. After much private heartburning, the WACs finally junked it in favor of a jauntier, less severe overseas...
Lieut. General James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle, brilliant, scrappy commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, stood happily by while Corporal Ruby Newell, of Long Beach, Calif., accepted a bunch of roses and the verdict of U.S. doughboys stationed in England that she is "the most beautiful WAC in the European theater...
With the liberation Joliot assumed charge of the reorganization of French scientific research. His scientist wife, daughter of Madame Curie, shrugs off the dangerous years. Says she: "They [the Nazis] didn't worry me much. They seemed to mix me up with my sister [famed French WAC officer, Eve Curie] and looked somewhat puzzled when they met me, but I never helped them to work out the family relationship...