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One of our stories of significant trivia drew more mail recently than anything we have printed in some time. It was the story of Lucy Hicks, leading cook, confidante, philanthropist, and bordello-boss of Oxnard, Calif. The sharp eye of one of our editors found the bones of the story tucked obscurely away in a Pacific Coast paper. As TIME told it fully for the first time, Lucy, after 30 years, to the astonishment and embarrassment of her fellow townsmen, was found to be a man. "Her" supreme accolade probably came from the TIME subscribers who nominated "her" for TIME's Man of the Year. But there is one more chapter to add now to the story of Lucy's trials & tribulations: the U.S. Army is after "her" for evading the draft.
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