CLUB FOR JILTEDS
(0.C.) SYDNEY, Feb. 22. Servicemen in New Guinea, who have been jilted by the girls back home, are forming brush-off clubs. The first brush-off club was formed by U.S. servicemen in India, and the idea has spread by word of mouth to American and Australian soldiers in the Pacific.
First New Guinea brush-off club, says the U.S. soldiers' magazine Yank Down Under, was formed by men of an air engineer section of the U.S. Fifth Air Force. They list girls who have jilted them as "definites" if they are married to someone else, "probables" if ' engaged, and "missing" if they just haven't written.
The girls' pictures are pinned up on the Brush-Off Operations Board, and are frequently given such titles as Avenger, Hellcat, or any other suitable name.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 58, 9 March 1944, Page 3
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