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These Amazing Americans (II)

... Bailey I realise, and had the oppor tunity of appreciating the worth and standing of well-known American sportswomen Miss Amelia Earhart is one of the brilliant examples whose name will go down in history, but Europe and the east can boast names who have ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1929
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2160 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

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 

A London New Sletter: PRIVATE THEATRICALS

... private residence is in Penn, Bucks women women of deeds among whom Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale, Grace Darling, Amelia Earhart, and one or two more instantly suggest themselves. She has been the most successful of all the victorious generals who ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2974 | Page: 7 | 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 

And the World said

... Modern Art Museum, New York, or that Mrs. President Roosevelt, who is learning to fly, had her first lessons from the late Amelia Earhart? LjYom Varna, the Deauville of the Balkan Peninsula, I hear the British fleet is in, and likely to be well feted, as ...

Published: Wednesday 15 September 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2740 | Page: 6 | 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 

WHEN the AIR PILOT PLAYS with his 'PLANE

... in California, to Australia. The flight was made in three legs Honolulu and Suva being the breaks in the journey MISS AMELIA EARHART, the first woman conqueror of the Atlantic, who declares that the art of flying by instruments is an art which only a ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3850 | Page: 37 | Tags: Photographs 

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 

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 

AIR EDDIES: Life and Lympne

... Ulm. Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith disappeared two years ago, it is supposed, in the Malayan jungles. Captain Noonan was Amelia Earhart's navigator ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1094 | Page: 46 | Tags: Photographs 

AIR EDDIES: Household Brigade

... established an almost unique reputation for aerobatic and instrument flying. No room is left me for comment upon Miss Amelia Earhart's Atlantic flight, but this is the kind of thing that must be considered in detail before its value can be assessed. On ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1932
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1465 | Page: 70 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LETTERS OF EVE

... week the Season began to look really like the Season. Even the stormy week-end before was full of excitement with Miss Amelia Earhart's mag nificent feat to show us that there are still some left to carry on the old heroic tradition. A milder excitement ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1932
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2597 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs