num_pages: 288
description: Glamour danger liberation: in a Mad Menera of commercial flight Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out and wanted up Required to have a college degree speak two languages and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 53 and 59 between 105 and 140 pounds and under 26 years of age at the time of hire. Julia Cookes intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life stories of a memorable cast of characters from Lynne Totten a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her to Hazel Bowie one of the relatively few black stewardesses of the era as they embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life. Cooke brings to life the story of Pan Am stewardesses role in the Vietnam War as the airline added runs from Saigon to Hong Kong for planeloads of weary young soldiers straight from the battlefields who were off for five days of R&amp;R and then flown back to war. Finally with Operation Babyliftthe dramatic evacuation of 2000 children during the fall of Saigonthe books special cast of stewardesses unites to play an extraordinary role on the world stage.
language: English
title: Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
publisher: Mariner Books