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 dateĀand 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...