Helen E. Hokinson: Easter Parade for a WAC?

Oh, I could write a sonnet about Helen E. Hokinson's cover for the April 1943 Woman's Home Companion. 

Helen E. Hokinson
Woman's Home Companion, April 1943

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224327039588

A similar idea appears on an undated wartime postcard by an anonymous illustrator. In this case, the garish colors are distracting compared with Hokinson's limited palette.

World War II-era postcard

https://www.hippostcard.com/listing/wwii-military-comic-postcard-wac-just-looking-art-tone-linen-c1940s-unused/13237300

Woman's Home Companion once again, this time without the address label:

Helen E. Hokinson
Woman's Home Companion, April 1943

https://www.ebay.com/i/284292943337?....

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