The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-17
CHAPTER V


 "you do your job" the regular stewardess advised Kay on c train- ing flight from the Central Airport west to Omaha, land the men In the service will accept you as Q buddy. We all know each other --our trials and trlhulations, likes and dislikes, brides and jealousies, even rlvalries in love, But the whole crowd is loyal. It's us--the flying personnel - against the world"
 The stewardess said this with an air of conscious pride. She added, tits Q case of every man for himself at times. You'll have to learn to take care of yourself and you never know whether you're to be stationed in Kala- naxoo or Philadelphia or Reno"
 Kay was grateful for such bits of advice, She did a great deal of listening and observing during the three weeks training period prescribed for would-be steward cases on the Overland AirwAys.
 She learned her way about air- ports in c dozen different states. She learned to call hundreds of men by their first names. She met the great figures of aviation-cas- ually, to be sure--but she learned to have tremendous respect for them. She met the pilots and the grcaind crews and picked up some of the phrases they used in tech. nicAl talk aInoEg themselves.
 At frequent intervals she and Doris and Alice got together in the boarding house near the Gen. tral Airpolt. They were each prNcticing on separate runs every day-Fnorth, east, south and west under the tutelage of the regu- lar air hostesses, and they had adventurous tales to swap.
 They all hoped to make tho grade and win . regular Job, for they loved the air.
 Alice Miller was the quietest of the three. About her delicate fea- lures which had had an air of tenseness, there was now c certain sefenity--a serenity that came from within. Alice was becoming increas- ingly sure of herself.
 This puzzled Doris ct first, Doris always seemed to have . chip on her shoulder but she had exhib- tied thorough flying qualities and was bound to make good at tho iob of steWardess, It was she who got the first appointment-a regular run westbound from tho Central Airport.
 The day she returned from her first regular run she found Kay alone ct the boarding house. Kay was doing the most obvious thing one did in port-stopping runs in silk stockings.
 She looked up, smiling, when Doris entered. Kay was eager to hear Doris's experiences and her afissing chatter. Tn the three weeks they had spent together Kay had learned to know Doris for what she really was--a girl who was sentimental at heart and trying, by putting on Q bold front, Co hide the scars of Q sensitive soul had received. Doris had a heart Of guld.
 But she was scowling now. She flung her purse and gloves down and said, "Can you imagine what saw in Omaha last night7"
 Kay laughed. NO, l can't. You have % many amazing adven- turesl"
 q saw our little Alice stepping out with that Curck Jones-re- number him? I'll never forget him as long as I livel Told me I'd have to get rid of my excess haegagel' The conceited yellow headed heart-breaker Shaping his little book of telephone num- beFs in every girls face from oakland to Newark airport"
 Kay made no comment. The antky Mir. Chuck Jones only amused her. Since she had repuised him, on her first flight, he had treated her with cool disdain. Perhaps he thought that some day she would ktish to hiln with tears in her eyes.
 Doris, however, was indignant. Nkzs1l only break Alice's heartl" she prophesied. "And Alice dee serves 6 better break than that. she's spent her life in a sick room looking after her mother. Alice doesn't know what men are like. Just wait until that Chuck Junes comes in from his run--I1l teil him thing or two That po0r, trusting child--with 6 face Nke an angels. And that big blond brute of a man comes
 Kay tried to distract Doris Ehoushte. Tits strange how our paths cross. We all have different runs bue we meet--sometilnes in Omaha, or New York. And. of e13Izse, here ct Central Airport. would almost hate to go to the western division"
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