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Eisenhower Was My Boss—

Stateside Visit Leaves Distaste

Kay Resents Slander Aimed At Girls Overseas

INSTALLMENT 28 By Kay Summersby

MONDAY, JUNE 12, was a big day for Gen. Eisenhower. Leav-|

"ing our CP before 6 o'clock in the morning, he todk the V-I-P party to Normandy. ~ Gen. Ike came back about 8:30 p. m., feeling chipper that he had got ashore at long last, invigorated by actually visiting the hs And Nappy: that everyone's spirits seemed so high. «In addition, there was another, to — — 3 on those . unofficial reason for his Rappiness|s a3] atishtion coptered on those —a reunion with his son. Grad- |} ooo uated from West Point on D-Day, | .

And, Tm afraid, a shocking 2 Li Joun 3, De amount of that attention was fo-

: {cused on the ranking leaders with leave Meith Ly fAImOuS we De one of two ideas in mind, eI Pas hm |sometimes both: A promotion for On June 29, I lost all interest | th husband, and/or a transfer to

in war. b etter duty, preferably in the Gen. Ike had several of us out

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A string quartet of Howe High School students who may be among entrants in next year's projected chamber music festival are (seated) Judy Wear and (standing, left to right) Marian Crabb,

{United States. to Telegraph Cottage for dinner.| 1 Was hurt, then angered at the John, he said, was fretting be-!

slander of WAC’s overseas. The

cause the West Point graduation 8irls in London and Algiers had

e was almost Ih kaye % to Ft. Ben. WS believe such selfish venom existed]

__ "Pm sending John home In my until I ran right into it in Wash-B-17,” the General explained. ington. Some of the most social “rex is going along. So are Army wives made it quite clear—

‘Mattie Pinette and Sergeant] rystal-clear—they regarded any Farr” He looked at me, “There's uniformed female overseas as a

a spare place and I know you're mere “camp follower.”

anxious to meet Dick’s mother, I Wd wl I LOOKED at these WashingHow would you like to go along? ton wives in their smart frocks

; (8... nibbling luxurious foods, making OUR SEND-OFF from the Ger-/.ocktail talk, safe in one of the

mans was a buzz-bomb. It landed worid’s few unbombed cities. Then Week in May, will provide op-

several hundred yards away and 1 thought of the WAC’s working rattled the car windows as We||ong and thankless hours overdrove out to the airport. seas, often living in tents or All of us breathed a sigh of re- phygoy barracks, anxious about llef when London and the airportijgved ones in battle, still carrying were far behind. lon. Two women rushed up to wel-| I thought of Red Cross girls come us to Washington. One wasiwho got up before dawn to drive Mrs. George Allen; the other, MTS. their Clubmobiles onto isolated Mamie Eisenhower. I found theiairfields, distributing coffee, General's wife an attractive, petite| goughnuts, and good American woman, her bangs the hint to a/cheer to airmen taking off for vivacious, ~ friendly personality. possible death over Europe. We all chatted excitedly. Then| 7 thought of the mutilated men Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. Allen 1'q seen in hospitals, of the went off to town, with John in| American nurses who worked day tow, promising to call. after day with those wounded,

: BEB drawing upon a personal courage NEXT AFTERNOON, I went|ajmost. holy in its selflessness. I

up to the fashionable Wardman thought of the nurses I'd seen Park to visit Mrs. Eisenhower,|i, the waters around our torwho grteeted me at the door With|pedoed Strathallen, the nurses

a welcome, tinkling, orange-filled staggering through the mud in|

Old Fashioned. Her -cordiality|Tynisia at the time of Kasserine helped me to meet the wives of pags, various friends around head-| How, T wondered, how could quarters, men I had known ini these Washington gossips have North Africa and in England. Ithe colossal conceit and self-de-In the beginning, I felt strange/ception not to see their own and foreign, much too British and shameful images? How could much too militarized for this for-/they lump all overseas service gotten social side of feminity. But women into one dirty group and their natural friendliness soon then jab it with woman's cruelest thawed my embarrassment. More-| weapon against woman: Moral over, we had mutual interests, slander? mutual, friends: their husbands. 2 « I enjoyed meeting the wives of{ BEING HUMAN, I was even overseas friends, putting flesh on more upset at learning my own the name-skeletons rattled so con- {reputation was lost. In addition tinuously by. lonely husbands| to being a woman overseas, I was abroad; they enjoyed meeting|a foreign woman—and I traveled someone who knew their hus-|/with. the High Brass. Therefore, bands, who could tell them how|I was a Bad Woman. This was their husbands looked, how they|fact, gleefully acknowledged and felt; what they ate where they established fact. lived, et cetera. It was a lovely| These women didn’t—and don't afternoons and I' enjoyed iti—leave any loophole for doubt; thoroughly. |they didn’'t—and don’t give any ® 2 » opportunity for defense. Nothing AMIDST ALL THIS excitement J could say or do would change I tried to get in touch with Dick’s this attitude. I was classified mother at her home in New York labeled, and filed. State. Innumerable telephone calls| This all-out assault upon my (which impressed me with the character hurt; it hurt terribly. speed and courtesy of long dis-/ After the hurt came resentment; tance operators in America) dis- after the resentment, anger. I closed Mrs. Arnold to be en route thought bitterly of my ambulance to Florida. No one knew exactly days in the Blitz, of my torpedo-

how she was going, where she ing in the Mediterranean, of my]

would stay down there. ‘driver's life in North Africa. I Two days before our party was thought bitterly of Dick. due to head back to London, she] called from Florida, distraught scar tissue destined to stay inat driving right through Wash- flamed the rest of my life. Pracington, unaware I was there on a tically every woman who served visit. abroad in uniform bears this I had a wonderful day and a wound. It's the one thing we'll night with Mrs. Arnold, collect- never forgive, never forget. It's ing a bad case of sunburn in the most painful wound of all, for Miami . a new, close friend. {from the enemy. And I didn’t have to ride back in that bucket-seat C-47. Our old|turn of peace. A small, wicked B-17 showed up in Miami. Capt. voice inside me cries out: “Next

Larry Hansen, Gen. Eisenhower's War, my girl, you may as well do | pilot, had a double reason for all these things of which you're: coming down: Firstly, we were due accused; they'll say you did, any-'

to leave for England the very how!”) next day; secondly, his wife lived! Tarnished but slightly by this in nearby Coral Gables. We took one experience, the Washington off for Washington that after-|visit drew to a close. noon. That old war-born

» = " SOME OF THE Army wives I as the B-17 took off, circled the met this time left a bad taste in lovely city of Washington for a my memory. A few seemed SO final ‘salute, and then headed calculating, so cold. They gauged “home” ., . . back to war. each other purely by rank, more! Tomorrow: Ike 80 than the most rank-conscious Thousand Worries. West Pointer, all social and per-| (Copyright, 1948, by Kay Summersby)

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{ Indianapolis grade-school and high school pupils who can play {instruments will have a chance to compete in a thamber-music festival to be held next May. Announcement of the projected festival was made today by Leonard A. Strauss, program chairman of the Ensemble Music | Society of Indianapolis, sponsor of the forthcoming musical event. | The festival, to be held in Music ~~ Be Week next year, the first tun | Trent, Manual High School; Walter Whitworth, Indianapolis

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