Evening star., 1938-05-15

YOU'VE ever been to the Nationals or
any of the other big air meets you've
seen Arch Malone You've seen him fly
inverted in Dill transport, loop it and
slow-roll it, and then land the big crate, both
motors dead. right to the pin in an accuracy
test. A pink checked, baby-faced youngster
who's still kidding himself when he shaves
oftener than twice a week, but flyer that
doesn't have to take off his hat to the best
in the business
Clyde Barron, president of Great Basin Air
Transport hired him right off the field in
Cleveland and on Malone's own terms He
was the only man who ever cracked the whip
over the Chiefs head and got away with it.
He started close to the top of the ladder with
full pilots rating. but he was never on the
line with scheduled run. He was assigned
to sales and promotion and it didn't take him
long to show he could sell ships as we'll as fly
them.
He was good, but he was cocky - with the
insufferable cockiness of the fellow who's just
as good as he thinks he is. He'd sneak into
Glendale when the fog was so thick you could
cut it in chunks and clear the port with a
truck. and then he'd have something sarcastic
to say about the pilot of the regular run who'd
sat down at Bakersfield and sent mail and
passengers in by train. That made the flight
pilots love him. The mechanics hated his CUTS
because he rawhided them like second looey
with platoon of recruits and as for the girls
the stenographers and clerks and stewardesses
IF they'd ever caught Arch Malone in an
alley they'd have cut his throat
1t was cub stuff. He called the girls Cutey
and Gorgeous and he passed out, ad lib,
kisses and roughhousings and assorted pinches
and pats. Nothing secretive - Malone had as
much subtlety as bupup. A girl couldn't
report him without making it appear that she
couldn't protect herself in the clinches, and no
girl nowadays wants to make open admission
of that
So the girls took it out in sputtering - until
Eileen Darrow came along. She was a cute
trick. G-BAT never hired stewardess that
was hard to look at but Eileen had little more
than her share. Brown hair with just hint of
bronzy gold, eyes that could be any color
from gray to deep purple, nice little nose,
and figure that hit the 32-24-34 standard
plumb center
1t didn't take her long to get Archie classified
She never really tore into him - she had too
much sense - but any man with brain in his
head about what girl meant and what she
didn't would have known that he wasn't
going over. Malone couldn't see it, and Eileen
took him to town.
The first round was his. She was leaning
over a table in the operations room when
Malone came through, saw her position, and
well, skipping a few details, he gave her
one of the jovial spanks for which he was
Infamous Eileen barely turned her head. Some
day, Roman Hands. she told him, I'm going
to knock you off your perch"
Cant take it, can you Cutey?" he said,
and laughed at her.
That's something you'd better ask yourself.
Stunt Man, after you find your ears smacked
down."
That was all and she didn't give him any
second warning. When he laid off the other
girls and singled her out for all his mauling she
took it in her stride. She was planning to fish
and was willing to cut bait.
G-BAT girls wear the usual stewardess uni
form. A perky little overseas cap, mannish
coat with Sam Brown belt and the line insigne
on the left breast, and tailored skirt which
buttons on the right side just over the leg.
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