Steer clear of reds (too air hostess) and hot pink (very last year in L.A.).

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Eve is another story: onetime dancer, air hostess, glider pilot and all-around pistol.

WSJ: Meet Richard Branson's Parents

Through his cronies and his latest (third) wife, a former air hostess 36 years his junior and regarded by some as ridiculously vulgar, he had begun to make mischief even for the current, more modern-minded, prime minister, Costas Simitis.

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