48 War 48 CONTENTS
51 MARVIN’S ADVENTURES IN JEWELRY 52 WAR AND A YOUNG GIRL’S BROKEN HEART
53 THE WORKING GIRL 54 WARTIME ROMANCES 55 THE BLIND DATE DISASTER 56 THE ROAD HOME GOES LEFT 58 THE WAR LABOR BOARD 58 SOMEBODY ELSE’S TROUBLES
T oward the end of my sixteenth year, on December 7, 1941, World War II began. Presi- dent Roosevelt called it “a day that will live in infamy.” For a girl my age the war came as a complete shock. The possibility of war may have been considered by adults but for us teenagers our world was swing music, bobbysox, Frank Sinatra and boyfriends. Soon many of our potential boyfriends were going off to fight and die in Europe or the Pacific. When the Japanese at- tacked Pearl Harbor none of us had ever heard of the place and had no idea where it was. As for the Holocaust going on all over Europe and especially in death camps in Germany and Poland we knew nothing until later. When we did know, our military was already fight- ing its way across Europe to the rescue. Sadly rescue came too late for millions.
58 FOX FUR AND UNIFORMS 63 THE BOYS COME HOME 66 The Working Girl 68 DOCK STREET 69 AN EXTRAVAGANCE 69 THE BLUEBIRD OF SOMETHING
70 THE DRESS BUSINESS 73 WORD OF MOUTH 73 WHERE’S THE SALAMI? 73 MOVING ON 75 MA MERE 76 A CHANGE OF HEART
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