The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-02
HARRINGTON SHOWS THEM
 IN AIRLINES
New York Writer Reveals Something New that
 Executive Sprung
By GEORGE TUCKER


 WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-I missed Les Harrington when he was in New York. And that's too bad, because Les doesn't get to New York very often. Why he doesn't l can not say, because he has whole airline to play around with, and when a man with an entire fleet of ships at his disposal can't get from St. Paul to New York more than once or twice a year, that's something l am unable to figure out.
 Unless, of course, he happens to dislike New York. And if that's true you can't hate him for that. You can't get mad at guy for not liking a town. Not really, not the way you can hate fellow for wearing a hat you don't like. Be- cause towns are important only when you get tied up with them through people. Hats are another matter.
 It must have been six months ago that I wrote Les a letter and asked him to notify me the next time he got to town. thought may be we could have some corned beef and cabbage together. maybe, or spend a pleasant afternoon talk ing. And he said he would. He wrote right back and said, I'll call you the moment I check into my hotel. v But that moment wasn't a very happy one for me. That was the day I was laid by the heels by or Maa Bronchitis, and by the time ! was back on the high road, he was back out there in St. Paul.
 I'm certainly sorry I didn't get to see this tall (six-foot-five or is it six?) friendly fellow who's gen. eral traffic manager for Northwest Airlines. Traffic is his business. It's his baby, and I think you are going to be interested in bit of philosophical reasoning he has put into his job. Harrington ought really to be an advertising man. For he reasons this way: What is pleas ing to the eye is pleasing to all of you"
 So with this as a working basis he organized some 30 posts through out the line and established local traffic executives Only, he didn't choose Joe or Jim. With a crafty eye he chose 30 of the prettiest girls you ever saw. And he made them executives in their own right.
 I know about this because I was idling through Rockefeller Center this afternoon and ran smack into Loy Warwick, a Georgia boy who has tied his kite to this town. He said, Son, I suppose I will have to introduce you to Karen Brick son. She's a farmers daughter but don't let that fall you. She's the lines representative in New York, and Farrington's her boss"
 I only had a couple of minutes, give or take few seconds either way, but during that time I man. aged to possess myself of this vital data: Miss Erickson is not pretty: She is, beautiful She has raven hair and very dark eyes. She used to manage hospital at Cando North Dakota. Her home town is Edmore, N. D. She is single.
 (Miss Jones, take letter to MT Leslie B. Harrington, Municipal Air port, St. Paul, Minnesota. Dear Les When are you coming back to New York? Please call me the moment you check into your hotel. Sick or well, I will be johnny the-spot. There are some important matters I would like to talk over with you, and besides I think we ought to kick around some and see some of the town, if the traffic will bear itD
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