Army & Navy - Pershing and Theresa

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The fancy look of some hotels that the Army has taken over for its redistribution centers makes G.I. guests gasp. After a fortnight of top-priced splendor ($30 a day for two) at Asheville's Grove Park Inn (cost for soldiers, nothing; for soldiers wives, $1.50 a day) Corporal and Mrs. Harry Paczynski of Erie, Pa. were still pinching themselves. Said Mrs. Paczynski, after wandering through the huge, hushed lounge of the great grey stone pile: "Sometimes I wonder if I'm dreaming."

Grove Park Inn is one of 48 resort hotels—at Asheville, Miami, Lake Placid, Santa Barbara, etc.—now used as redistribution centers for soldiers...

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