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Aviator Earhart was still relatively unskilled in flying when she became famous as an airwoman. Commercial flights and publicity ventures gave her experience, helped pay for the longer hops she took for the fun of it. She never quite broke even, though her extracurricular activities ranged from being a peripatetic faculty member of Purdue, to designing women's shirts with tails ample enough to let their wearers stand decently on their heads. A feminist (her husband "cannot remember introducing her even once as Mrs. Putnam") she was still feminine (her thought going through a thunderstorm over the Gulf...
...Under the will of Atatürk, stanch advocate of woman's equal rights, women were almost the sole beneficiaries. To the party the ghazi gave these directions: pay his surviving sister $10,000 yearly; provide varying fixed incomes for his five adopted daughters; buy Adopted Daughter and Airwoman Sahiba Gokcen a house; see that the two children of President Ismet Inönü, the ghazi's successor, get the best possible education; support the Society for Promulgation of the Turkish Language and History, Atatürk's pet hobby...
Readers of Airwoman know that the Betsey Barton, who edits a monthly page called "Cloud Club," is the pretty, 16-year-old daughter of gladsome Adman Bruce Barton. Last summer an automobile accident bedded Daughter Betsey in her Manhattan home with a broken back. Propped up in bed with pillows, spunky Editor Barton gathers chit-chat from correspondents, types it out with her father's breeziness, more flippancy. Well enough last week to be wheeled out to a cinema, she said: "I want to try my darnedest to get more people, especially young women, interested in aviation...
...dawn the world's No. 1 airwoman climbed into her Lockheed Vega, warmed the big Wasp engine while soldiers herded horses, cows, goats, Mexicans out of the way. Then she taxied into a biting wind, lifted her three-ton ship off the ground after a perilous run of nearly two miles...
Amelia Earhart at 36 is easily the world's No. 1 airwoman. Kansas-born daughter of a Los Angeles attorney, independently rich since childhood, she took her first airplane ride with Frank Hawks in 1920, was the first woman to get an international pilot's license. Because she looked like Lindbergh and knew how to fly, she was chosen to accompany Louis Gordon and the late Wilmer Stultz on their transatlantic flight in 1928. Real fame came to her in 1932 when she flew the Atlantic solo on the fifth anniversary of Lindbergh's Paris flight. Since...