The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-06-12

hEY WEsO1. 1iouSh SioSS
enough to each other at home for
a local telephone call or a drive
that wouldn't have infringed much
on an A-coupon, Nancy Snea and
/ had to go to Key West to get ac-
uuainted The last few weeks
at the office were so beset with
routine, l never got around to an
interview with this charming
coloneps lady, who not only re-
calls Pearl Harsbdr from horrify-
ing, vivid first hand experience,
but who has to her credit three
books as timelyp as the current
OPA announcements What
started out to bs Q friendly, cas-
ual encounter at La Concha Hotel,
when she came down to Key West
on a 24-hour business trip, turned
into a gala celebration /. For the
evening she ARMED here CHANGED
to be the same day that her hus-
band, Col. Augustine Francis
Shea, of the Army Air Forces,
landed in SAM Efancisco after
year and a half somewhere In
the Pacific" -.
Mrs. Shea had. hurried through
her dinner so that we might take
her on a brief sightseeing tour
before the tropical twilight envel-
oped this little island city :. She
was most satisfactory passenger,
full of enthusiasm to capture the
spirit and charm of strange place
But far more interesting than
the lor-crowded main thorough
fares, the southernmost house, or
the signs that make Key West an
armed city, was the telephone call
that awaited her on our return to
the hotel :. A telegram from San
Francisco had trailed her from
Palm Beach to Miami, from Miami
10 Key West to announce the glad
tidings that her husband was once
more safe on the United States
mainland, that very shortly they
would be reunited for the first
time since she was evacuated
from Hawaii with two hours no.
tice on Christmas day l941 -.
So we took her to Habana Ma
drid to meet Leon Kramer, to get
q slant on local night life /. +. and
TO toast the colonel and their
imminent reunion in Palm Beach
The next day, Mrs. Shea made
another tour, this time with a
young Navy wife, seeing much
that should be of value to her in
her future writings and in her re-
visions to bring her past books
hp-to-date :. She is the author of
THE Army Wife, the co-author
of "The Navy Wife" in collabora-
ton with Anne Briscoe Pye, wife
of Vice Admiral w. S. Pye, pres
ent commandant of the Naval
War College at Newport s. she
has just completed a new book
about the women's Army, entitled
"The WAACS", and at present is
under contract to write compan-
ion book to be called THE
WAVES, SPARS, and MARINES"
She left me copy of The
Navy Wife, which should be of
greatest interest here where most
of the attractive young girls one
meets have only recently come
under that category :. Written in
a light, interesting style, 1t COM
bines valuable data translated in
TO dollars and cents and definite
dos and dont's that should make
II a must in even the light luggage
a wife may carry when she at
tempts to follow the Navy both in
times of war and peace "The
WAACS'', which I've not yet seen,
should have probably the greatest
general appear of any of her books
to date, owing to the vast cross
section of American young women
interested in this branch of patri-
otto service
Her official business took SO
long there was little time for us to
go browsing, though we did man
age to unearth Panchos', a place
where she'd been informed you
could get the best bollos in Key
West The WPA Guide to Key
West explains bollos thus: Cook