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Jim Mollison looks back on heroic age of flying

... died in Berlin just after the war; his partner Campbell Black, killed in an air crash; Wiley Post, dead in the Far North; Amelia Earhart and Kingsford Smith, claimed by the Pacific. There are not all those many survivors of that era not long —but in aviation ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1957
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 664 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TV & RADIO Tribute to pioneers of flight

... It recalls the historic flights of Alcock and Brown, Kingsford Smith, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson_ Jim Mollison and Amelia Earhart, among others. The narrator is Richard Hurndall. w'l;ll:e mgadlen e production of Rossini’s comic Amy Johnson opera “Count ...

Published: Friday 01 November 1963
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 188 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

GRAHAM GREENE = The Comedians o T S s S ship and its almost insolent m%prodfipmy of invention.” Walter Allen

... waftlwpmafiho tograp- INTRODUCTION BY CYRIL CONNOLLY a‘-:t’s npmd: as one &hf“u’;wmm greatest photographers.” OBSERVER 63s AMELIA EARHART FRED GOERNER €Was she really lost at sea or was she a spy who died u‘pflmcl(helm?'rhuum absorbing book® DAILY TELEGRAPH ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1966
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 131 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

BOUTIQUES . . BULK-BUYING . . BEAUTY . . BUSINESS

... Edinburgh now makes it the 515th- club of the. world. As well as being a women’s service = organisation, it also awards the - Amelia Earhart fellowship to highly qualified women for research and study in ‘the aero-space -sciences. Equally the aim of the organisation ...

Published: Tuesday 28 March 1967
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 926 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A SCOTSMAN'’S LOG by Wilfred Taylor Time and ocean study in excelsis

... the drama of the great record-breaking flights to Australia with Jim and Amy hero and heroine of the day, we remember Amelia Earhart, and our minds go back to the wonderful days of the Schneider Troghy and to RAF contestants like Orlebar and Waghorn, ...

Published: Wednesday 07 May 1969
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

ones identity

... Bolam at all, but Amelia Earhart, a flyer who set off across the Atlantic before the Secpnd World War and has not since been seen under her own name. Mrs Bolam called a news conference and said she was Mrs Bolam, not Amelia Earhart. Those of us who weren’t ...

Published: Monday 16 November 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1530 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

(o short ]

... lively, scholarly marrative. JOHN BURKE:Winged Legend. The story of Amelia Earhart (225 pp. £2.00. Arthur Barker). Weomen have m’lg dmmthefly? oncere o tiving mhwm ww.m& ist of Amelia Earhart, woman to fly solo across the innumerabile other records, disappeared ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1971
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 332 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

On the lighter side

... to spell our -own names, We're people, not ‘dames’.” “They Did Their ' Own Thlnfi‘l; features real-life folk hero like Amelia Earhart, Mu&n Monroe (in “Who Killed Norma Jean?” the lyrics suggest that Marilyn was a woman -exploited and killed by the system) ...

Published: Thursday 23 March 1972
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 593 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Intrepid airwoman

... Intrepid airwoman The last You Are There programme of Highlights in American History (BBC-1) considers “ The Mystery of Amelia Earhart,” the intrepid American airwoman who disappeared on a Pacific flight in 1937. BBC-I's “ Nationwide breaks new ground ...

Published: Friday 08 June 1973
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 345 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

Qualities

... assistant. Another pair made me resemble Robin Day peering through binoculars and one set gave me a resemblance to the late Amelia Earhart about to flv the Atlantic. Eventually I settled for a pair which, though they gave me a glass-eved look and might result ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1974
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1447 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

By J. C. BOWMAN

... rights and keeps reminding him of his omissions; particularly of the women who have made an impact on American life, from Amelia Earhart to Dorothy Parker — even the Andrews Sisters though only, one - suspects, as an excuse for a song. It is all a little ...

Published: Thursday 28 August 1975
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 428 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

And % she feels, is why the and Jane Fonda are never quite as good as they ought to be,

... 120, e S St o of Msut“ hln.vl! sh: ’ e is on mtmd‘n‘l. ground — g& next film, * Amelia, will be bueda“:'thé life of Amelia Earhart, the American fm tou}l’; 1 don't -xpc:- ence ‘that gloricus feeling of freedom in the air. I'm scured of breaking a leg ...

Published: Saturday 25 October 1975
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 676 | Page: 22 | Tags: none