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...ripe for picking by the first bird who comes along." Others haunt the airport lounge in the hope that the next load of passengers in transit will include a girl they can talk to-or even just look at. Most flights passing through carry the R.A.F. equivalent of a stewardess, known technically as a loadmaster or quartermaster and to the men on Gan as "quartermattress" or, simply "Q." Proof of conquest is almost impossible; the only man to provide it was a now legendary corporal who came down with gonorrhea and was carried in triumph to the base doctor...
Celio Diaz Jr. was not interested in the glamorous image, the clothes or the chance to meet eligible, attractive men, but he did want to be the male version of a stewardess, an airline cabin attendant. He had his own reason: he simply wanted to fly round the world...
...After Robinson changed its name to Mohawk, he was elected president, and later board chairman. The driving force behind Mohawk's rapid rise to become the nation's 4th largest regional carrier. Peach was also the first president of a U.S. scheduled airline to hire a black stewardess...
...Canton's White Cloud Airport, the visitors boarded the single plane on the field, a Russian-built Ilyushin-18 and flew off to Peking, attended by a khaki-clad stewardess. When the Americans arrived, Peking was still gripped by winter. The capital's houses appeared bleak brown and gray. Taken to the Hsinchiao Hotel and served a sumptuous tray of cold Chinese hors d'oeuvres, the inexperienced travelers assumed that was their meal. They dug in lustily. When they finished, however, nine other courses followed. "We had food you wouldn't believe," said Connie Sweeris. "Shark...
Stablemates. Buckley and Goldstein started Screw in 1968 with a stake of $350, half from Buckley, the other half from Goldstein's wife Mary, then a stewardess for Pan Am but since fired because of her association with the publication. Bribes induced some two dozen Manhattan news dealers to handle the first issue's 7,000 copies. Screw grossed $650,000 in its first year and more than...