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...engaged) and married her. Wasp-waisted Mary Bond was the most beautiful debutante in New York, referred to by Portraitist Richard Hall as ''the perfect woman, nobly planned." Daughter Victoria Morosini eloped with the family coachman and was disinherited. Nobody but the immediate family ever saw Daughter Amelia. According to Riverdale gossip she was horribly mauled by a pet bear as a child, disfigured for life, always lived shut up in a special apartment at the top of the house...
...AMELIA EARHART...
Women pilots had fought bitterly and won the right to enter every race this year except the Thompson Trophy. Having the privilege, they did nothing with it, flew in no events until the Amelia Earhart Trophy Race for the George Palmer Putnam Cup, for women exclusively, was reached. This race aroused much mirth among men pilots, caused much confusion to officials. The six starters were supposed to race 21 mi. around a 3½ mi. course. The first to start headed properly for the checkered turning pylon, then somehow got another idea and wandered off across country. Others mistook smokestacks...
Grove & Davila. Jaunty and glib, Colonel Marmaduke Grove has figured in several Chilean revolutions, attempted one in 1930, using for purposes of getting into Chile from Argentina the airplane Friendship in which Passenger Amelia Earhart first crossed the Atlantic. Captured by troops loyal to Dictator Ibanez, the Colonel was exiled to Easter Island. There he pumped the Chilean Governor of this colony so full of revolutionary ideas that Governor & Colonel set out in a small boat to Tahiti, later made their way to France. In July 1931, after Dictator Ibanez was ousted, Colonel Grove returned to Chile, has been intriguing...
Towering several inches above him, Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam danced with Edward of Wales at the Derby Ball in Grosvenor House, London. After playing "Home" and "Day by Day," the orchestra burst into "Tiger Rag," a fast foxtrot, then stopped. Leaving the floor H. R. H. was heard to grumble: "We need more like that." Obediently the orchestra struck up again "Tiger Rag" and H. R. H. speedily led Mrs. Putnam back to the floor for another dance. When finally an announcer asked that the guests leave the ballroom for supper, H. R. H. remarked to his partner: "That...