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...breakfast one morning last week President and Mrs. Roosevelt had as their guest the world's only female trans-atlantic-&-pacific flyer, Amelia Earhart...
...Rosen will play selections by Bach, Debussy, Wieniawski, Gluck-Kreisler and Tivadar Nachez. She will be assisted on the piano by Amelia Tataronis, soprano, Frank Chatterton, and Gudrun Hatch Howe...
...When an airmail letter from him was held up, the President had a copy sent by wirephoto to reach Amelia Earhart at a banquet given in Oakland, Calif., in honor of her Hawaiian flight. The flight, according to the San Francisco News, was a Hawaiian publicity stunt for which Miss Earhart was paid $10,000. Said the President's twice-sent letter: "You have scored again...
...Amelia Earhart likes to say she flies for "the fun of it," once used the phrase for the title of a book. Last week her fun consisted of flying blind through fog while she listened to musical broadcasts and exchanged witticisms with her husband by radio. Some 18 hours after the start of the 2,400-mile flight, she landed safely at Oakland, Calif, in her red Lockheed Vega monoplane. After powdering her nose and pushing back her tousled hair, Miss Earhart confided to newshawks that she felt "swell." Back in Honolulu Husband Putnam made better copy by saying: "Myself...
...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...