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University of Southern California Los Angeles, Calif...
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...
...York: Send the confetti one. What have you got, Los Angeles...
...Los Angeles had film actors wearing paper hats and blowing New Year's horns and "Shirley Temple being vaccinated. It was taken two days ago but it's good, it's cute. CUTE, cute picture." Dallas had Mexican Red Shirts arrested in Mexico City and Kansas City somewhat wistfully offered a view of the last session of the Bi-Cameral Legislature in Nebraska. "Okay, Dallas." or "Okay, Miami, you take the network," Editor Huse would direct. Or, if San Francisco had a picture of a missing lowan, of no interest to outsiders, Des Moines could...
Down a California highway toward Los Angeles, late one afternoon, roared a car whose driver had pulled a hat down over his face, wedged an unlighted cigar between his teeth. Close behind roared a motorcycle policeman. At the hamlet of Santarita the car slowed down and the motorcycle drew alongside. The speeder stopped, pushed up his hat, ripped out his cigar. Said he: "Yes, I am Barney Old' field To Speeder Oldfield, first man ever to drive an automobile one mile in one minute, now a special advertising man for Chrysler Motors, the policeman handed a ticket for driving...