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bathing suit was introduced in Paris.” I guess 1963, which is only seven years off. The
winners, almost everyone on the plane except me, receive post cards of our DC-3 signed
by the crew. “I've never had so many correct guesses on a plane before,” she says, avoid-
ing my eye, and passes out copies of Life magazines dated from the 1940s.
Rich announces that it is Francesca's birthday today, her 45th. When we land again in
Anchorage, she gets on the loudspeaker and says, “Welcome back to the year 2001. That
was a pretty good landing so I expect it was the first officer's,” thereby getting revenge on
Rich for advancing her age ten years. “That's the first tour of the season that I've run out
of champagne,” she says.
Once again inside the Era lobby, I see hanging on the wall what I missed before, a black
and white picture of a Cordova Airlines DC-3 in flight.
Mudhole Smith would have approved.
