Education: Culture Takes Wings

Many of Hollywood's college movies are filmed on the 27-acre, ivy-walled campus of Los Angeles City College. Even when cameras are not focused on it, L.A.C.C. often seems like a movie. L.A.C.C. has begun a new one-year course in air-hostessing,* adding to its boasted "streamlined" curriculum which trains salesmen, policemen and undertakers, bestows upon them an A.A. ("Associate in Arts") degree.

Director of the air-hostessing course is bright-eyed, fluttery, fortyish Margaret M. Preininger, head of L.A.C.C.'s Cultural Arts department, author of Japanese Flower Arrangement for Modern Homes. Miss Preininger's classroom is a mellow harmony of overstuffed chairs, heavy draperies, floor lamps, vases...

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