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IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC. (Delayed) —All but six of our planes were back from Wels strike on Tokyo and safely landed. The six formed a separate flight, and we couldn't believe that all of .them had been lost. For that
reason our officers didn't feel too concerned. .And then came a radio message from the flight leader. It said that one of the six was down in the ocean, and that the other five were hanging around to try.to direct some surface vessel to his rescue. That's all we knew for hours. When we finally got the story, this was it: Ensign Robert Buchanan, Clementon, N. J., was hit by flak as they were diving on their target some 20 miles west of Tokyo. Buchanan himself was not hurt. He kept his plane up till he got over water, But it was still very much Japanese water. In fact, it was in Tokyo's outer bay—the larger of the two bays you see on the map leading in to Tokyo. Ensign Buchanan is an ace with five Jap planes to his credit. He ditched his plane successfully, and got out in his rubber boat. He was only eight miles from shore and five miles from the big island that stands at the bay entrance. Then the flight leader took charge. He is.Lt. John Fecke, Duxbury, Mass. He is also an ace, and an old hand at the game. He has downed seven Jap planes.
Muncie Pilot Aids Rescue
FECKE TOOK the remaining four of the flight and started out looking for an American rescue-ship. They found one about 30 miles off the bay entrance. They talked to him on the radio, told him the circumstances. He sent back word he was willing to try. But he asked them to stick with him and give air support. So Lt. Fecke ordered the other four:to stay and circle above the ship while he went back to pick up Bucharan's location and guard him. But when he got there he couldn't find Buchanan. He flew for 25 minutes around Tokyo bay and. was about to despair when he began getting sun’ flashes in his eyes, He “flew over about three miles
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Inside Indianapolis By Lowel! Nussbaum
HERE'S ONE for the names department: Jack White, the Broad Ripple tycoon, sold an insulation job to Walter E. -Apple who, appropriately enough, lives on Orchard ave: . Ann Knight, American Air-
lines ticket clerk, ror understand ‘why all the talk about priorities for air transportation. She had a vacation coming recently and asked for a. pass to New York. Her boss, Frank “Bodwell, got her a space available pass. With’ HR ticket, she was subject to being kicked off in favor of even a mud turtle with the lowest priority. But Ann got all the way to New York and then back again, without being “Blazed.” Some people have all the luck. , Andianapolis' residents will be on the “We the Peoprogram Sunday night. Leaving tomorrow for
ple” New York will be Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Buchanan, . parents of Lt. Vernon Buchanan. Lt. Buchanan, you may recall, wrote that magnificent letter to his parents and sisters—to be mailed in case he was killed or ‘niissirig. He crashed in the Pacific, and his family received word he was missing. Then came his letter
—the one published in The Times. his death was received later,
After 20 Years PETE VAUGHAN,
Official word of
the Wabash college coach, was
in town the other day and“told a friend he just had “My wrist suddenly began -
come fgom a doctor’s office. hurting,” he explained, “and 1 thought maybe I had broken it. THe doc exaniinied it and just laughed. He Said I had all “right, but that it happened 20 years ago. Funny, it didn’t start hurting until now.” this sounds like a tall tale to you—man breaking wrist and not discovering it for 20 years—you. just dont know iron man Vaughan. Up at Notre Dame, they like to tell of Pete's first game against Michigan.
World of Science
CREATION of an international health organization will be the most important ‘problem facing the united nations meeting at San Francisco next to the basic problem of insuring peace. Experts of the foreign policy association say that such a health agency will hold a place in the post-war world exceeded in importance only by the military precautions adopted to keep the peace. I am inclined to agree with this view, For every survey of conditions in the war-torn areas coupled with every memory of what happened after world war I point to the necessity of a “world health department.” Public health experts are: still inclined to grow a little pale when they think of the influenza epidemics in the history of civilization and of a magnitude ranking with the black plague that decimated Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries,
World-Wide Epidemic
THE 1918 FLU epidemic was truly world- wide and no, accurate figures were ever obtained on the number of deaths in such regions as India and China. Public health éxperts know that the number of deaths exceeded 10,000,000 and may have gone as high as 20,000,000. The United States had about 20,000,000 cases of flu with 400,000 deaths. (By comparison, the U. 8, army had 50,510 deaths in world war I as a result of men killed in action or dying of wounds.) Only the development of DDT, the miracle insect
My Day
NEW YORK, Tuesday.—I saw a bluebird and a robin yesterday! It is not as warm here and spring is not as far along as in Washington.
~ Btill, the Teel of itis In the air, and there is a
fresh, green look about the shoots that are poking their heads above ground which makes you want to settle down in the cotintry and have nothing whatsoever do with bricks and mortarJor a long while.
and engagements-go on. And people concentrate in big cities, so here I am in New York, where at 1 o'clock I go to the Cosmopolitan club to speak at one of their membership lunches,
At 7 o'clock 1 attend a dinner at the Commodore :
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In the meantime, the ship's progress was slow, took almost two hours to get there. And one by one the aerial escort began getting in trouble. And one
by one Fecke ordered them honie to our ship which]
was getting farther away all the time. Lt. Irl Sonner, Petaluma, Cal. lost the use of his radio and had to leave. Lt. Max Barnes, Olympia, Wash, got dangerously low on gas, and Fecke sent him home. Gas shortage also sent back "Lt. Bob Murray, Muncie, Ind. That left only Lt, Fecke circling above the man in the boat, and Lt. Arnold Berner, Springdale, Ark., flying lone aerial escort for the rescue ship. Finally the ship was past the bay entrance. The skipper began to have his doubts. He had to go within three miles of the gun-dotted island. He was
within five minutes flying distance, of land. Jap planes could butcher him. Inlo the Lion's Mouth FURTHERMORE, he looked at his chart, and saw
that he was in “restricted water,” ably were mined. It was certainly no place for a ship to be. The skipper radioed Fecke and said he couldn't
meaning they prob-
go any farther. Fecke radioed back and said, “It's only two miles more. Please try.” The skipper answered and said, “Okay, we'll try.”
And they pulled it off. They went right into the |}
lion's mouth, pulled out our pilot, and got safely away. Then, and then only, did Fecke and Berner start home, They came back to us three hours after all the rest had returned. They had flown six hours on a three-hour mission. But they helped save an American life by doing so. That night I lay in my bunk reading a copy of “Flying” Magazine, It was the issue of last October, nearly six months old. It was the annual naval aviation issue, And in an article entitled “Life on a Carrier,” 248, was this paragraph: “It's a mighty good feeling to know that even if] you were shot down in Tokyo harbor, the navy would be in to get you.” - It had never happened when written. But it has happened now. » » » “TAILPIECE—The rescue ship radioed us the next day that Buchanan was feeling fine. And that just| to be impartial, they also had rescued another navy| pilot, a disgruntled: Jap pilot and a lone bedraggled | survivor of a Jap picket boat!
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Pete was carrying the ball for the Irish,’ and, they relate, broke a goal post with his head when: he The man really is tough. . The Democrats are having their Jefferson-day dinner on Friday, April 13. Gosh, aren't they afraid of Friday the 13th? Maybe they figure they've already had all]
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This is the second of several articles about the army’s 2d engineer special brigade, a pioneer amphibious unit that has made more than two dozen combat landings in the Southwest Pacific.
By LEE G. MILLER Scripps-Howard Staff Writer LEYTE, P.1. (By Air Mail).—~The 2d engineer special brigade has a big reputation out here today, and you can hear its praises sung at the Pentagon in Washington. It wasn't always that way. The 29d E.S.B. had to prove its mettle to the satisfaction of the army high command and the navy. The navy, in particular, was chary. of these landlubbers who aspired to be amphibious. It had to be shown. It was. To go back to the beginning: | The brigade was formed in midsummer of 1942, with Col. (now | Brig.. Gen.) William F. Heavey in command. This was at Camp Edwards on Cape Cod, and the choppy waters of Martha's Vineyard and | Nantucket sound were the setting for their first exercises. | Many of the brigadels officers and {men had prior. experience with [small boats, both as amateurs and | professionals. Many others were
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{from far inland—for example, the brigade’s . outstanding hero, Pvt. Junior N. Van Noy of Idaho, who won a posthumous congressional medal of honor. n ” n
FROM CAPE COD the brigade {went to Carabelle, Fla., for training | along the mangrove coast of the | gulf of Mexico. - And then to Ft. |ord, Cal, for more experience in the heavy surf of Mohterey bay. | Early in '43, the 2d E.S.B. em- | barked for foreign duty. By March
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The unloading of gasoline drums from LCMs and LCVPs on an Lines and pumps, decks to swab,
island in the Pacific is shown in this scene.
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the bad luck there is. Bob Kirby is chairman for the [thie brigade was in Australia—but | Lae, had long since been taken by
dinner. - It will be held in the Claypool Riley room. The committee hopes to sell 3000 tickets at 10 bucks
{it didn’t have a single boat. The] | plan was to ship the boats in pre-
Australian and American troops in la rugged overland campaign sup-
each, which will help eliminate the party's deficit | fabricated sections to Australia and |plied by air from. Port Moresby.
from ‘the recent campaign. to the national committee,
Right Under the €lock™ PHYLLIS PETERSON of the General Motors truck | division, Circle tower, wears one of those "lapel watches. She was walking past Ayres’ when a boy, probably in his early teens, stopped her, looked at| het watch, then noted the time shown on his own wrist watch, said “Thank you,” and went on about his | business. It all happened right under Ayres’: big] clock. . Leslie Ayres, the architect, now can go way back and sit down... He yeporisd iast week that he | had found a freak of nature—a rare, five-leaf forsythia. He might have known that the person. who | speaks first never wins. Mrs. -G. L. Foster has shown | him up. She writes: “Here are a féw forsythia blossoms my niece, Joan Leslie, found in our yard. She was looking for a five-petaled blossom and found some with six.” On a piece of cardboard were attached two five-leafers and three with six fully-formed leaves. H. O. Weinrich of -the Califorpig Fruit -Growers Exchange, says that robins, flowers and mosquitoes are okay as far as signs of spring go, but—' To, us_ who have occasion to work th and around the Big “Four railrpad produce yard, spring definitely is heze when the ‘Brothers (Leondrd and Emil) make their appearanee to’ greet and -handle the first strawberries in Indianapolis. (The first carload arrived several days ago.) The Gemmers remain throughout the summer and fall with watermelons, then hibernate until the following year.”
Half of the proceeds goes |
By David Dietz
killer, has prevented widespread epidemics of typhus in the world war II. Louse-borne typhus has been the accompaniment of every war in the past. It is estimated that typhus cost Napoleon more men in his retreat from Moscow than freezing weather, lack of food, Russian bullets and all other causes combined, It is well known how the U. S. typhus €ommission by dusting the inhabitants” of Naples prevented an outbreak there which might have swept all Italy in| time. The triumph was aptly named “the second battle of Naples.”
Tuberculosis Flares Up TUBERCULOSIS has flared up throughout the! devastated areas of Europe. Under Nazi domination, France, Belgium, Holland, Greece apd other nations |
have suffered an increase~in the incidence of tuber-
culosis and the death rate from it. » Malnutrition is widespread and this always sets the . stage for epidemics by lowering resistance .to disease. - We must also remember that the breakdown | of sanitation now occurring in the bombed cities of Nazi Germany is a potential menace to the health of
+ the world.
Turning “to the Pacific we find an equally dangerous situation from the standpoint of world health. Experts have already made clear the menace of tropical diseases and pointed out that additional safeguards will be needed to prevent their spread into the temperate regions including our own nation. Finally, it must be remembered that even before! wotld war II, the vast amount of malaria, tuberculosis, nutritional disease, syphilis and other diseases in such countries as China and India were truly appalling.
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By Eleanor Roosevelt
1 read with interest this morning's column by Walter Lippmann on the San Francisco conference, I feel that his remarks are justified if there is the faintest idea of actually writing a charter to cover the future peace of the world.
will at some future time proceed to meet and slowly and painstakingly evolve a charter covering the first points. which present themselves as important to us all, then we should have hopes of success. A body of international ldw can be built up only
over the. years, it seem to me. It would be impossible| JB
t any one time to cover in any charter the varioiis situatioris which will necessitate changes.-to meet new
and specific conditions at different times.
The main objective, from my point of view, is to have a place where anything which troubles the world can be brought gut and aired. It will be known by all whenever anyone is foolhardly enough to want to go to war; and their impulses in that direction can be controlled, not by one
or two people, but by the united public opinion of the| [
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If the aim and object of the-delegates, however, is to agree on some kind of world organization which|
assemble them there, An assembly plant was to have been ready at Cairns,~but when the | [brigade arrived the plant was non- | existent; an old sawmill occupied
{its site and the owners were hold- |
lig out for more money. The upshot was that the 2d] E.S.B. had to build its’ own plant. | The machinists of the brigade's |base shop battalion had to turn {carpenters and electricians. Thanks to a fearful amount of sweat and | improvisation the 450-foot assembly line was finally ready. And on | April 7,-,1943, ‘the first pire LCVP was turned out. n 2 ” SOON SEVEN boats a day were {rolling off the line. More than 1000 were put together at Cairns before the plant was moved, months later, to Milne bay, New Guinea. In May the brigade established | its first command post, oh Samaral] jisland, outside Milne bay, and bes | ERAN AAR with Australia’s fa mous 9th division—the Rats of To- | bruk. The Yanks and Aussies got along fine. Gen. Heavey recalls: “Our men soon learned that! ‘bloody’ didn't mean bloody, ‘and |
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OK if you said it with a smile.” The situation in New Guinea in| the early summer of '43 was this: Our land-based planes, in the battle of the Bismarck sea, had
to reinforce the Jap garrison at Lae.
thwarted bloodily a major attempt]
| Now an Australian brigade was cut{ting its way through the jungle | toward Lae, and part of our 41st di- { vision was advancing westward up the coast from Buna. The 41st was handicapped by lack of landing boats, and the Aussies, {who had been set down inland at Wau by air, had no sea communications. . Our amphib brigade had its work cut out for it. : In early June the brigade ran some LSVPs 205 miles from Milne
Presently a_flotilla was moved on Up MOSES; WiTice iv set .out on June 29 for the brigade's first com~ bat landing. n Aboard the 33 small craft were elements of the 41st division... Two navy PT boats served as escort. The objective was a spot some 30 miles away on Nassau bay, inland from which stood the Aussies, around Wau. !
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{one. Heavy seas and rain harassed | |every mile of the trip.. The target beach was buffeted by 10- foot surf. But the engineers landed their
| the Aussies learned that ‘s.0.b.’ was | troops without, Jos¥*though most of |
{ the boats were battered to worth= | lessness before they could be taken { from the beach.
| There were Japs here, but they did A later | life on Red beach was rugged, what | that the roar of our boat engines with Jap air attacks and heavy
not show their hand at once. [captured captain explained
bay to Oro bay, southeast of Buna.
struggling to get off-the beach, had convinced the Japs that tanks were landing. So they waited to see what was what. Next evening they struck. Sixtyeight boatless boatmen of the 2d E.S.B, assigned by the infantry to hold the left flank of the beachhead, turned out to be handy with the bayonet. ~
AT LEAST 400 Japs attacked |s
THE AMPHIBIAN ENGINEERS
By CAPT. HERBERT GLODT Second Engineer Special Brigade Ride the surf on blunt-nosed barges, Guns and fighting men our charges. Hit the beach at crack of dawn, Land them safely, calm or storm. Fight on shore till beach-head's won, Then the task is just begun. Clear the sands, blast a road, Return to bring another load. Set the range lights. Mark the reef. From D-day on there's no relief. Creep her in . . . rough approach, Big waves high . . . apt to broach. Man the fifties . . . Get that plane! Keep on shooting ’spite the pain. Strange jargon for army men “Ramps” and “Props” “Swing ship at Ten.”
Coxswains, seamen on the job. Tell me of these men, I pray thee, Bastard child of army, navy. Are they soldier? Or marine? Mayhap something in between. “In between” is right, I'd say. Tween wet night and scorching day. Tween the near shore and the far, Tween the rough sea and the star.
Tween the yellowman and free man, Stands this half - breed soldier seaman.
their sector, but the boatmen turned them back with many casualties and the day was saved. We lost a dozen men, including 1st Lt. Arthur C. Ely, former New York newspaperman. During July and August, the Nassau beachliead was expanded steadily, the brigade's boats bringing up more troops and munitions—for both Aussies and Yanks—every night, often under mortar fire, and returning with casualties. The brigade's second operation was more ambitious than the Nassau bay landing; with more than 100 boats involved, again manned by te 532d boat and shore regiment. ‘The target, labeled Red | beach, Was 18 tives east of Sirurephe’ i Jap-held Lae, on the Huon peninsula. After a careful fehearsal the flo- | tilla assembled at Morobe and, on | Sept. 4, landed with an assault force of Australians at Red beach, under minor fire, with what Gen. Heavey recalls as “the precision of a welloiled machine.” » » »
BUT FOR the next 10 days or so
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- {the fate of Lae sealed.” It fell on
rains that required the shore engineers of the 2d E.S.B. to corduroy every foot of their roads. A stormr caught the Rats of Tobruk crossing the swollen Busu river, and they lost much of ‘their equipment. It was a crucial situation. Two LCVPs were. rushed to the mouth of the Busu with supplies. Beaten off once by heavy mortar and machine-gun ‘fire, they tried again under cover of a sudden storm and landed. The Aussies got their supplies. # IN 66 HOURS of continuous work the boatmen moved some 1500 ‘Australian troops and great quanti-
ties of supplies to support THE trosssy
ing. The Busu was mastered, and
Sept. 16. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, eager | to strike again while the Japs were off their feet, ordered a quick assault on their next stronghold, Finschhafen. Here, on Scarlet beach, a babyfaced kid of the 2d E.S. B. was to lose his life in setting the brigade an example of heroic devotion to duty.
By JACK ROWLES United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, March 28. —Eighty-[one-year-old — Dr.John Erdman’s record of performing an operation {on his birthday every year for 57 | years has been saved again by an {11th hour stomach ache. Spry as a squirrel and snappily dressed with a white carnation in his lapel, the plump surgeon hopped «out of his car at Postgraduate hospital - yesterday and performed a major operation to “keep his hand
in. “He's going to break his neck | Jumping out of that car,” | nurse-secretary, Alice Taylor,
Sad his |
| - ERDMAN'S record-saving patient | usual. was a girl who had a stomach pain!dinner with his wife, two daughters to national fame in surgery in Cinwhen she visited his office last Sat- and navy son. He wore what Miss | {cinnati as a cash boy in a drygoods Miss Taylor had just warned Taylor boss that he had no opera-|suit.” his birthday |
urgay. her tions scheduled yesterday.
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Surgeon Performs Major Operation on His 81st Birthday
Last night he celebrated at|
said was a “terrific biue|
“He ought to be amcng the 10| {best dressed men in the country,”
It turned out the patient needed she said.
an “intestinal re-section.” Erdman was her man The ‘operation, he said, was
doing “niftily.”
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Erdman was reached by telephone at Postgraduate, wherz he ‘was for-|
“a| mer director of surgery for the hos-| humdinger,” and the patient was|pital's
medical school. Feminine | laugh! ter tinkled in the background. | x x =»
“LISTEN to those nurses,” he| sald, chuckiing. “Now don’t inter-| view me (more laughter). I'd better explain to you that my last (80th) | birthday cost me all kinds of pa-| | tients. They said ‘that old poop| {isn't going to operate today, is he?’ | | Well, T did.” |
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‘ALLAN BLOOM RESIGNS JEWISH CENTER POST
Allan Bloom, general secretary of the Jewish Community. Center association for nearly 20 years, has | resigned to accept a position as! | regional representative of the Anite) lican' Jewish committee. Mr. Bloom will leave the associa- | tino on April 5 and will assume his| EX new duties May 15. ‘The American
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cational agency engaged in cultural work for the promotion of better inter-group understanding. : Coming here -in 1925, Mr. Bloom organized the Jewish Community Center association which operated Kirshb#tm community center and the communal building.
RAFT LANDS ON ROOF
ROCKVILLE CENTER, N. Y. March 28 '(U. P.).—Allan J. Cameron heard a loud thump on his porch roof. He dashed outside to find a rubber life raft—fully inflate
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ERDMAN, who started his climb
store and later in a drug store, has Foperated on such celebrities as En=
Cleimen. that... they . were
SECOND SECTION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1945 PAGE 9 THE STORY OF THE U. 5. ARMY ENGINEERS (Second of a Series) eee Lab Ome
‘Mine Workers Expected to
Favor Strike
By CHARLES H. HERROLD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 28. «= The nation’s 400,000 soft coal miners were being polled today on their willingness to strike if their new wage demands are not granted by time the present cone
‘tract ends at midnight Saturday,
The vote was expected to be overwhelmingly in favor of a strike. But it was virtually certain that the government would step in before ‘the Saturday dead line to prevent a halt in coal pro= duction, # Ed » THE POLLS were scheduled to be open from 6 a. m. to 8p. m, in .all bituminous producing areas, The national labor relations board, which is conducting the balloting, said it hoped to have final ree sults tabulated by 4 p. m. toe morrow.
The poll will cost about $300,000, most expensive ever conducted under the Smith-Connally antie strike law.
The official ballot advised the miners that the issues were “ques= tions relating to negotiations of a new contract.” They were asked to vote yes or no on this one Question: “Do you wish to permit an ine terruption of war production in wartime as a result of this dise pute?” 8 8 8 . OFFICIALS believed that only a war labor board order requiring the United Mine Workers and coal operators to extend their present contract, or government seizure of the mines, would prevent a work stoppage this week-end.
The government has asked the disputants to extend the present contract. for a month. The operators agreed but under conditions which were almost certain to be rejected by the U. M. W. . g 3
The U. M. W. tradition has been “no contract; no work.” But the miners were known to be willing to continue work in case of gove ernment seizure pending settlee ment of the dispute with the pro ducers, Fuel Administrator Harold L, Ickes again warned that the war effort required uninterrupted coal production. By Saturday mide night, he.said, stockpiles will be at the lowest level since Pearl Harbor. 8-5» THE CONTRACT negotiations are now in the 25th day and still deadlocked.
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins expressed hope last nigh$ that the parties would settle their differences and reach an agreement before the expiration of the present contraét. But the epere
-ators and U, M. W. representa-
tives, who had conferred with her 215-heurs; did not share her view,
Both sides unofficially - dis= any closer to an agreement as a resulf of Miss Perkins’ proposal for a lump Sum wage increase_in lieu of an item-by-item settlement of the U. M. W.s 18 demands.
rico Caruso, Samuel Untermeyer, George J. Gould and Benjamin M.|
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TEN YEARS ago Sculptor Max
| Kalish carved a life-sized figure of |
Erdman in his surgeon's dress. The
sculptured Erdman has his thumbs hooked in his belt. The statue was]
first displayed in the Grand Central art gallery.
“A great.man,” Miss Taylor said, |
“but he's going to knock years off
his life if he doesn't quit popping! out of his car and running around |
the office like a ballet dancer.
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We, the Women—— Why Not Cite Mrs. Average
American?
By RUTH MILLETT IN NAMING this years beste dressed women, New York's Pash fon Academy awarded to every woman in the uniformed services the title of “best dressed woman if public life” That is a gesture In the right direction. But what about Mrs. Average American? Shouldn't there be a place for her in the best dressed ranks? She is wearing a new spring hat with last vear's suit, because the suit is “just as good as ever,” and besides she doesn’t go to a lot of parties any more. » » * THAT HAT she is wearing with the old suit is pretty giddy. She bought it one day when her mor= ale was low, and though now she suspects it is really kind of silly looking, still it DID lift her spirits
| . the day she bought it, instead of
the bedspread she had meant to purchase, ~ She has on rayon stockings, of of course—for she wouldn't touch
. black market nylons with a 10
foot pole on a $10 bill
She is wearing sensible shoes for two reasons—because she can't waste ration points on frive olous ones and because she is doing more walking and standing in line than she has done in years.” a
su ON EASTER morning shel) wear flowers to perk up last year's suit—because of the: thoughtfulnéss of a son or husband thous sands of miles from home.