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...Adopted a resolution by Connecticut's Walcott authorizing the award of a Distinguished Flying Cross to Amelia Earhart Putnam...
Your story about Amelia Earhart Putnam's flight to Ireland (TIME, May 30) notes that Mrs. Putnam slept at Ambassador Mellon's house "even as Lindbergh slept at Herrick's." From the enclosed newspaper clipping you will observe that even as Lindbergh borrowed Ambassador Herrick's pyjamas so did Mrs. Putnam beg a nightgown of Lady Astor...
With the Captain was a lanky young woman of cultured mien. Her tousled blonde mop, high cheek bones and wide, tight mouth made her look remarkably like Charles Augustus Lindbergh, particularly when her hat was off. Her name was Amelia Earhart. She was working in a Boston settlement house but she had learned in California how to fly. With admonitions to keep her hat off as much as possible Publisher Putnam, whom Amelia Earhart soon learned to call "G. P." or "Gip," bore her off to Mrs. Guest. She got the job. Few months later "G. P." was able...
Died. Archduchess Maria Dorothea Amelia of Austria, 65, relict of the late pretender to the French throne, Louis Philippe Robert, Duke of Orleans; after long illness; in Budapest...
...Fergus' stomach, its starfish of pain begins to spread. He takes some drink to ease it, dies dreaming of dead friends and the sea. The Author. Englishman Leonard Alfred George Strong's first literary effort was a Chaucerian ballad about a sow named, after his grandmother, Amelia. This attracted his family's attention, but it was not until after he met up with Aldous Huxley, Robert Graves. Richard Hughes and Edmund Blunden at Oxford that his literary talent became widely recognized. A sometime theatrical cartoonist, ballad singer, actor, broadcaster, teacher, he now devotes all his time...