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E-mail inquiries for the State Historical Society of Iowa should be directed to history.research@iowa.gov or library.st@uiowa.ed Master image scanned with Ricoh Aficio MP C3000 as a JPEG at 600 ppi Herald Clinton. Iowa Hospital Wolf Pack Greets Easter Models With Whistle WAC Steals First Prize om Male Contestants in Hat Designing. Amid /wolf calls and inviting whistles' Clinton sorority girls modeled Eaite r finery before an appreciative audience of Schick General hospital patients In the Red Cross auditorium last night. The show reminded this observer or olden-time slave markets as the girls posed on the stage then rat the gauntlet of G. I.'s in the audience. Even the auctioneer was there but he was making his own bid.. The Easter parade opened with a showing of dresses for young women. The patients pawed large portions of the wax and varnish from the floor but when It came time lor modeling of children's spring clothes the attitude did a complete about face and the auditorium rang with applause and tears welled up In eyes of some fathers who have been long separated from their own youngsters. Show Military Styles Military fashions also were modeled by enlisted men. officers. WACS. army nurses, cadet nurses and Bed Cross workers. Thoy marched briskly across the stage, down the ramp and through the auditorium aisles. Highlight of the parade was mod-fling of Easter bonnets made by i patients at the hospital from a miscellany of materials furnished by Clinton merchants. Business sorority members modeled the...

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Herald (Clinton, Iowa)