Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Man. Behind him is a picture of his two-year-old son, Joe Paul, named in part for Paul Robeson, the Negro singer, whom Joe greatly admires. Joe Paul's mother is the second Mrs. Curran, Retta Toble, a husky redhead and onetime stewardess on the Grace Line. Joe was divorced from the first Mrs. Curran. The current Mrs. Curran is "the best cook in the world." Joe's favorite is Spanish rice. When he is at the office he eats at the Port Cafeteria around the corner, dining on corned beef & cabbage and strawberry ice cream...
...Kindergartner Isabelle Rohrer, 26, became an airplane stewardess, was replaced by Marjorie Zickafoose, 19 (no experience...
Replacing Lane is Miss Virginia E. Taplin, only woman stewardess in the Houses. Before taking over her new position yesterday, Miss Taplan was dietitian at Cowie Hall...
...make a playful pass at a lumbering transport plane, to fly formation, waggle his wings and cut in front is not risking his life alone. In this day of crowded schedules he is more than likely gambling with the lives of the liner's parachuteless pilot, copilot, stewardess and 21 high-priority passengers...
Record: Perfect. However tough the grind, airline pilots love this work. Long known as the cantankerous prima donnas of aviation, pilots formerly raised the hangar roof if a single field light was out or the stewardess forgot the chewing gum. Now they fly over trackless wastes (usually without radio), land on bad fields, sleep in flimsy shanties-and never squawk. And their record grounds everyone: not a single lost plane, not a single accident...