Monday, Mar. 22, 1943
Hell Hath No Fury!
If soldiers in the Detroit area had voted on it last week, they would doubtless have made it unanimous that Barbara Brown is vixen-of-the-year. Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), 22-year-old Barbara Brown got mad when a soldier failed to show up for a date--and took it out on the Army.
A onetime telephone operator, Barbara marched to a telephone, called the police, represented herself successively as the operator at Fort Wayne, Selfridge Field and Wayne County Airport. Her message: all soldiers on pass in the area return to their stations at once. More than 2,000 did, leaving drinks, dates and shows and a trail of blue air. Barbara finally looked up a policeman and confessed. Said she: "If I couldn't have him, I was making sure no one else could."
Barbara was arrested, then released. Reason: there is no law against such japery.
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