The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-25

ticed the famous violinist fidgeting
with the cup of coffee in his hands
Whats the matter, Mr.. Heifetz?"
she asked. lis the coffee cold2"
:. ooh, no." replied Heifetz, but
you were so busy 1 didn't want 70
bother you for sugar"
Eligible applicants for hostess jobs
are given a six weeks course Of
training in q special school run by
the airline Girls who sub
scribe to correspondence courses are
wasting their dough. because the
airlines don't take hostesses trained
in any schools but their own.) X. {.
It costs American Airlines $3.50 to
train each hostess =. TWA pays
student hostesses $3.50 a day while
they are being trained Among
the subjects hostess is taught are
weather forecasting, flying by in
StrumentS, basic mechanics and
aerodynamics, radio and air diet.
(But can she cook?) Lillian
Fette, former American Airlines
hostess, now models and is fea-
tured in the ads of a nationally
known toothpaste One of the
questions candidates for air hostess
jobs are invariably asked IS, "Are
you through with menu" If she
says yes she's out, because it means
that she's either a fibber or naiVeD
Hostesses, like doctors, are sub
ject to emergency call and may be
summoned to the airport to go on
duty at any time One OF the
instructors at the air hostess school
is a beauty expert, who teaches the
girls how to apply their makeup
and how to look their best generally
(The girls are also taught now TO
speak softly yet distinctly e.. =.
An air hostess must know how to
Go practically everything, because
her duties include such things as
playing chess elf a passenger can't
find someone else to play With
nursing babies (if mother wants to
resD, and serving as fourth at
bridge (when passengers who want
Il, play the game find themselves
short a hand.
The youngest airline hostess in
the world is Margaret Mary o.
Grady, who was born November 4
1916, and has been a hostess for
over a year Enrol Flynn's
list of ten most charming women in
America, which is headed by Eleanor
Roosevelt, includes an air hostess
Ann Malcolm, of United Airlines
Another duty a hostess is to
dissuade male passengers from
smoking cigars or pipes Dick
Macauley describes an air hostess
as "the sort of girl who knows all
the answers-only she has more
'Oomph" than Clifton Fadlman!"
The majority of airline nostesses
are smalltown girls. (And few come
from the western StateS) :.
Hostesses get two weeks vacation
with pay each year, and both they
and their relatives can travel any
where by plane free Ashostess
must wear her hat at all times when
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hostesses are strictly forbidden to
sleep or read, whether passengers
are present or not The man
who thought up the idea Of putting
lostesses on planes is Steve Stimp-
son, of United Airlines. ellis ar
gument was that If young women
we're regular members OF the crew.
1t would have a powerful psyche
logical effect on the travelling pub
lic).
According to hostesses, the upper
berth on a skysleeper plane is &C
tually more comfortable than the
lower berth The food compart-
ment on an airplane, from which
the hostess serves fourteen full
course dinners, fits into miniature
kitchen less than three feet square
(Show your wife thatD :. Add pic
turesque reporting: Mary Crutcher's
definition of an airline hostess, in
the Fort Worth Press: "An ;nforma-
ton bureau wrapped up in not more
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