Carol Trent, Air Stewardess — Jeanne Judson

High over the blue Pacific, Carol Trent felt free at last! Her work as an airline stewardess was fulfilling, the people she met were interesting and at the end of the run exotic Hawaii awaited her. Carol laughed at the people who said she would marry herself out of a job, but then she met a handsome young passenger, who was determined to make her change her mind.



Carol Trent lived in three different worlds. The first of these worlds was San Francisco and her comfortable old home on Nob Hill; the second was Hawaii -- sun-warmed and happy land to which she was gradually becoming accustomed; and the third world was Universal Air Lines' DC-7, a bridge spanning the first and second worlds, but, to Carol, the most important of the three.

This flight to Hawaii was the plum tossed to Carol -- a graduate nurse in addition to meeting all the requirements of an air stewardess -- after her initial training period on the fight from San Francisco to Los Angeles. And Carol loved every moment of the seven hour flight -- packed with its demands on her, from the old and crochety to the babies with their formulas. Trimly efficient, Carol was there to meet their demands -- though at times it was comforting to have veteran Ted Barlow, the lanky, loquacious steward, to lean on.

And it was especially comforting the day one of the engines conked out midway between San Francisco and Honolulu. But that was only the beginning… When Carol saw what she thought was a theft, she didn't know what to do. Should she report the theft or not? Ted Barlow said no, but Carol couldn't stand by and see Ran Palliser, the attractive architect who made the run regularly, cheated out of something that was rightfully his.

Carol and Ran's chase through Honolulu after Ran's stolen papers adds another exciting chapter to Miss Judson's always exciting story of an air stewardess. And when the chase ends up at a tea party at the Royal Hawaiian, no one is more astonished than Carol at the outcome.