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...been deliberately planned by her publicity-wise husband George Palmer Putnam, Amelia Earhart's solo flight from Honolulu to the U. S. last week could not have been more perfectly timed. A weekend recess in the Hauptmann trial cleared the front pages of the U. S. Press for a good spot-news story. To fill that void at that conspicuous moment was a bit of showmanship of which Publicist Putnam might well have been proud...
...Said Amelia Earhart: "Well, they can have that coffee grinder. I wouldn't care to go out to sea in it myself...
Before one dawn last week Mrs. Amelia Toner, 27, lay alone with her unborn baby in a rented Brooklyn bedroom. Her Irish husband had deserted her. Her other four children were in a Catholic orphan asylum on Staten Island. No companion stood by for her impending travail...
...umbilical cord, she dressed herself, wrapped baby and placenta in a sheet, went forth for medical help. Two blocks away she found an incredulous policeman in a patrol car. He thought she was fooling until he looked at the baby. Then it was only a matter of minutes until Amelia Toner and daughter were in the best of civilized hospital care, both getting along well...
...Aviatrix Amelia Earhart: I prophesy a great change in the transportation system. . . . Airlines will carry all first class passengers and first class mail. But don't believe too much what the old timers like me tell...