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At Fifty Feet: Up in the Clouds the War time Ace fought a Bloodless Battle with a Queen of the Sky--and Lost

... As usual, he thought jr swiftly. Only child lashings of money. Pilots make a fuss of her. Thinks she's Amy Johnson and Amelia Earhart in one.) You came down over the building, didn't you he asked, aloud. Yes defensively. You cleared it by about ten feet ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1935
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5502 | Page: 98 | Tags: Photographs 

Twelve More to Follow

... Stranded with Kay Francis. Her second picture was Ceiling Zero, with James Cagney and for this she had lessons in flying from Amelia Earhart, since when she has been sold on anything to do with a 'plane. She'll be flying high in the pic ture racket, too. Finally ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1936
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3551 | Page: 96 | Tags: Photographs 

Transatlantic TRIUMPH

... disguised by astute publicity experts, were made mainly for the personal rewards that resulted from being front-page news. Amelia Earhart on landing in Ireland after being the first woman to make the West to East crossing solo modestly admitted this. As far ...

Published: Sunday 01 November 1936
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3450 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

Europe's Number One Women

... art, in public service, in sex appeal. Countries have even begun to sift for their Number One Per sonalities. Thus, at Amelia Earhart's death, there was divergence as to whether that bright, courageous soul or the First Lady in the White House was America's ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1937
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3188 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

Books: A Baker's Dozen

... Books A Baker's D ozen By Alan Seymour ONE realises, after reading Last Flight, the enthralling resumé by the late Amelia Earhart of her career which was destined to terminate so tragically, that at least half her charm was due to her modest unselfco ...

Published: Tuesday 01 March 1938
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1798 | Page: 80 | Tags: Review 

Wings over the Pacific

... and ninety miles in all, across the treacherous Pacific, which has claimed such experienced victims as Captain Musick, Amelia Earhart, and Captain Noonan, July 1937 Captain Charles Ulm, December 1934 the Hawaiian Clipper, July 1938, commanded by Captain ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4478 | Page: 98 | Tags: Photographs 

BOOKS

... gunning of Spaniards, Poles, Finns and North Sea trawler and lightship men, and salute air folk of another breed. Miss Amelia Earhart was a lovable skyways girl first woman to fly the Atlantic, solo pilot from Mexico City to New York, Honolulu to New York ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2874 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

Jungle Harvest: With the Pygmies in Africa's Darkest Forest

... brother of the publisher Putnam who, in turn, is perhaps best known now as being the husband of the late American aviatrix, Amelia Earhart, lost somewhere on a last globe-encircling flight. This Congo- Putnam knows more about pygmies than any man living more ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1943
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2535 | Page: 60 | Tags: Photographs 

THINGS

... lack of means to use the air. But the air service to Paris, instituted in 1919, was still an adventure when she was born Amelia Earhart, first woman to achieve an air crossing of the Atlantic after three others had lost their lives in the attempt, did so ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1949
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1525 | Page: 83 | Tags: Illustrations