A howl of protest was set off by an odd piece of news last week: the Army Air Forces had been surreptitiously giving officer training to women civilians.
While a bill to commission Women's Airforce Service Pilots as Army officers was still kicking around in Congressional committee, 50 members of the WASP had completed their first week of schooling at the A.A.F. School of Applied Tactics at Orlando, Fla. How they jumped the legislative gun was an official mystery. But the news sparked new outbursts in the stalemated battle of the sexes over...
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