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10 c THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON A Shakespearean Christmas West Scans Immortal Bard's Works for Shopping Quotations Shop Evenings Until 9 p.m. By DICK WEST Washington - UIP1) - Shake speare, they say, had a word for everything. Earlier this month, I con trived a little Interview with the im mortal bard to show how he might have felt about the tax cut issue soon to come belore Con- Weil gress. Since then I have been skimming through his works on the lookout for quotations that might be applied to the Christmas shopping. I found some on almost every page. The phrase "brisk and giddy-paced times" sums up the season quite nicely although it may be a trifle on the con servative side. The British you know, are prone to under statement . I thought Shakespeare wus In better form with a line that describes my wife's appear ance when she comes home from a shopping trip: "How like the prodiga with over nd ragged American Airlines Hostess College Enlers Fifth Year BY ROBERT J. STERLING UPI Aviation Editor Fort Worth, Texas-flJPII- It was just five years ago that 44 young women walked into a brand-new, million-dollar building on the outskirts of Amon Carter airport, Fort Worth, Texas. They had four things in common. They all were attrac Ive, eager and somewhat scared. They also were some thing of aviation pioneers. These 44 girls represented the first class to enter American Airlines' unique "stewardess college." All airlines operate steward ess schools, but American's is the only one with a building devoted exclusively to the Job of turning out fly girls. It also is the only one which has the atmosphere and flavor of ri real college campus-its own building, attractive grounds and even a certain amount of hallowed tradition. Since Nov. 21, 1957, when the school first opened, about 3,000 girls have completed the six and a half week course (longest In the industry) and donned American's steward ess wings. This "college" Is a two-story U-shaped building located on 20 acres of rolling, wooded land just west of the Fort Worth airport. Three classes of 50 students each are taught simultaneously. The rookies occupy 27 simply but tastefully furnish ed rooms on the second floor -four girls to a room. The main floor includes four class rooms, a cafeteria, adminis tration offices, a beauty salon and huge reception room. Outside is a heated swim ming pool, and tennis courts. An average of six girls out of each 50-studcnt class fail to win their winra-for reasons ranging from immaturity to 1 a realization that the course is ! loo hard. Marriage . Marriage, too, is an occa sional cause for a "wash-out." American admits that some girls go into stewardess train ing figuring It will convince the "boy back home'' he'd better propose but fnst. "It works sometimes, too." snys training director Millie Alford. "I remember one girl got a plume call on graduation dny. She hung up and ran down the hall shouting 'He proposed! He proposed!' She never did fly with us." The students tell you the toughest part of tile course is emergency procedure train ing. As with all airlines. American requires perfect grades in this category. American estimates it costs about $1,000 to train a stew ardess. The course Itself is free. A student pays only for her cosmetics and hair styling, plus about $100 for her Win ter unform (summer uniforms are supplied free). The enormous turnover In the stewardess profession is the reason why American poured more than $1 million into lis stewardess college. It has about 1,300 stewardesses and loses as many as 750 a year-85 per cent of them to matrimony. Despite the turnover, limv e v e r, American requires every student to sign a pledge that she will stop flying at 32. doth she return weather'd ribs sails." My wiie. I might add, is await that "all that glitters is not gold," Sht is no "enapper-up of unconsider ed trifles," As a shopper, her Shakespearian motto is "let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent." But anyone who has en countered the "many-headed multitude" in a department store cannot help but wish "that this too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew." I went out once to get my wife a gift, but the expedition resulted in "a beggarly ac count of empty boxes." The downtown traffic had me ex claiming "a horse! a horse! my j kingdom tor a horse. : After 30 minutes of looking for a parking place, I said to myself "let us make an hon-1 ourahle retreat." t fiinrpH "T ! were belter to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with per petual motion." Rather than make a sec ond a!iempt-"what: wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? - I let Shake speare solve the problem for me. His gift suggestion "sweets to the tweet." I stopped by a neighborhood drug store and bought her a box of candy. It is not only the crowds and traffic that overpower me. I object to the straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps" of recorded Christmas carols. "That way madness lies." To me they sound like "the vile squeaking of the wry- necked fife." 1 agree with the Shakespearian assertion that 'silence Is the perfectest her ald of joy. As for my own voice, "I have lost It with halloing and singing of anthems." 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