Uplift for Sad Sags

The 96 troops stood at broomstick-straight attention as the lieutenant eyed them severely. Checking up and down the lines, the lieutenant observed that the uniformed contingent was not all it should be. Chins tucked in? Yes. Stomachs sucked in? Yes, sort of. Chests out? Well, hardly.

So the lieutenant, Jeane Wolcott, 28, head of a detachment of U.S. WACs on duty at Camp Kishine in Yokohama, had a heart-to-heart talk with her girls. "Some of the young ladies who are not too gifted in some ways," she explained later, "were told that they could make improvements. For a few who were beginning to bulge a bit, I suggested girdles. For a few others I suggested padding for the shoulders--and elsewhere. When a WAC isn't well endowed, the uniform has a tendency to dip in front of the shoulders. Padding at the shoulders will take the dip out. So will falsies." Added Lieut. Wolcott (who says that her measurements are "classified"): "Give me a man who is a man, and a woman should be a woman."

Jeane Wolcott's sad sags instantly got the hint. Rushing into the post exchange and downtown shops to buy their equipment, the girls in need bustled back to their quarters to spruce up. By week's end Camp Kishine's commander, Lieut. Colonel Frederick G. Ward, himself undulated down the line of girls, found stomachs uniformly tight, as well as all kinds of extra surprises. The colonel's rating: "High excellent." The WACs' morale: uplifted.

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