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...Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, comes down through history books with a vague him of some physical distinction; like an Amazon of old, she transcended generally accepted assumptions about female weakness. A different level of respect is reserved for, say, Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female American doctor, whose triumph lay in disproving social assumptions rather than simply surpassing them. Nor is it socially acceptable nowadays to praise Margaret Thatcher for capabilities beyond those of the ordinary woman...
...outside. One of the nerveless outside operatives, "Spider Dan" Goodwin, managed to lever himself up the Sears Tower in Chicago despite efforts of affronted city firemen to hose him away. And at an airfield in New Jersey, Pilot Grace McGuire, who bears an eerie resemblance to the late Amelia Earhart, will assemble a 1936 Lockheed Electra 10E, the kind of plane Earhart used, with the intention of next year completing the famed barnstormer's fatal last flight in the Pacific. She plans to take only equipment identical to that on Earhart's plane. Her fuel will give...
When former Mental Patient Robert E. Pates became rowdy outside Amelia's Lounge in Biloxi, Miss., local police charged him with public drunkenness and held him in the only padded cell in the Harrison County jail. "We decided to arrest him rather than let him hurt himself or somebody else," explained William Reynolds, one of the arresting officers. Less than 36 hours later, Reynolds' good intentions turned to tragedy. A fire that may have started in the urethane padding of Pates' cell pumped oily black smoke throughout the jail, killing 28 prisoners and injuring 60 other people...
DIED. Blanche Noyes, 81, Aviation Hall of Fame member who was a Broadway actress before dropping her stage career to fly planes in the early days of U.S. aviation; in Washington, D.C. A friend of Amelia Earhart's, Noyes took John D. Rockefeller for his only plane ride, in 1930. A stunt flyer, she also competed in numerous air races and was a co-winner with Louise Thaden of the grueling 1936 Bendix Trophy race...
...sides; or the stunning moment when lago plants a kiss fully on Rodrigo's lips and knife between his ribs (Plummer is a murderouly bisexual monster). Then there are images worthy of Halloween: Desdomona, tiny and exposed before her night table, singing a bed-time song, with Amelia's sudden entrances from the shadows creating delightful frissons; Desdemona draped horizontally across the bed as Othello enters to kill her, her long blonde hair hanging over one side, a delicate, bare leg over the other (Do all young wives sleep like that?); and, predictably, a subsequent stabbing and strangling both horrifying...