MOTHER REAVES DIPS INTO THE FUTURE

... Among her other prophecies, Mother Reaves claims to have foretold the deaths of two famous fliers—Kingsford- Smith and Amelia Earhart. And so well is she known to the river dwellers round London that they call her the Old Lady of the Thames. The old gipsy ...

Published: Sunday 07 January 1940
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 737 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

TAPE AND SCREEN

... The sky-crashing aviation scenes were made technically perfect Paul Mantz, tormer co-pilot and navigator toi the late Amelia Earhart. . Only Angels Have Wings is favoured candidate’ for this year s Academy Award. ThM week-end: Laughton In “Jamaica Inn ...

THE WORLD OF WOMEN By SUZANNE HARRISON Retarded Gifts of Leadership

... Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Fry, and so on; for scientific research Madame Curie was quoted, and for physical endurance Amelia Earhart's name came high on the list. The old fallacy of Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever, had long gone by the ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 414 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE LEICESTER MERCURY SATURDAY 27th JANUARY 1940- a News And Notes THEY NEVER SIT DOWN ON A BENT PIN NOW?

... duties the time will have for it” LIKE A TRUMPET CALL MISS WARNER Madame Curie’s to science the courage of the airwoman Amelia Ear-hart mentioned names that are like MAKERS OF HISTORY Sir Is anything being done to record for the benefit of posterity' Leicester’s ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 2757 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LONDON NOTES AND COMMENT

... House 3|RS. ROOSEVELT, who loves flying. once even contemplated learning to be a pilot herself. This was in 1933, when Amelia Earhart was paying a visit to the White House. Miss Earhart offered to be teacher, and to arrange hours and place for instruction—all ...

Propaganda Needs

... Grant and Jean Arthur. Aviation scenes gain realism through the work of Paul Mantz, formerly co-pilot and navigator for Amelia Earhart. Richard Barthelmess returns to the screen in this picture after an overlong absence. At the Scala will be “Andy Hardy ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 901 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AMELIA EARHART'S FEAT

... AMELIA EARHART'S FEAT. FIRST WOMAN TO FLY ATLANTIC. BIOGRAPHY HUSBAND. An astonishing story of the circumstances in which Amelia Earhart set out on her famous first flight across the Atlantic is told in Soaring Wings, biography written by her husband ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 297 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Soaring Wings

... Soaring Wings The life-story of gay, charming, courageous Amelia Earhart by her husband CECRCE PALMER PUTNAM. flfus. (11 /- net) ...

20 SUNDAY MERCURY 11 February 1940 BIOIOIKIS CAVALIER of the CLOUDS me fun is the indispensable part of work” was

... BIOIOIKIS CAVALIER of the CLOUDS me fun is the indispensable part of work” was one of the essential articles the creed of Amelia Earhart Another was right of women to adopt any sphere work for which they feel an aptitude and the way in which she adapted both ...

Published: Sunday 11 February 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2105 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

SUNDAY MERCURY 11 Fchrurr 1940 JnKXjQt is am- NCSIA I OF ORIGIN A SPECIALIST 1 A A PICTURE When Moscow

... questions Page 13:— Pepys (b) Sydney Carton in Dickens' Tale Cities’’ (c) Mr Balfour Minister 2— (a) Kruger Gladstone (c) Amelia Earhart 3 22 March (a) Persia b ) frish Free State (c) Austria (d) Siam (e) Mesopotamia 5— Since 1920 Sunday 3 September 1939 ...

Published: Sunday 11 February 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 995 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

EARLY GREEN CROPS

... a university. Messrs. Harrap Lave recently published another admirable biography. Soaring Wings (11/-). the story of Amelia Earhart, by her husband, George Palmer Putnam. Miss Earhart was the first woman flyer to fly the Atlantic, and it is two years ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1940
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 834 | Page: 4 | Tags: none