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page 158: Next, they told her the details: ...: JM, LITHW, IX p. 8, SLRC.
page 158: “You may make this flight ...”: JM,
LITHW,
IX p. 10, SLRC.
page 158: On June 1 ...: AE, letter to Marian Stabler, IWASML.
page 159: “strong and exquisitely fashioned.”: AE, 20H, p. 101.
page 160: Both had gone the classic flying route ...: AE,
20H,
pp. 311-14.
page 161: The crowds surging to greet him ...:
Boston Herald,
July 23, 1927.
page 161: merely asked Marion Perkins ...: JM,
LITHW,
SLRC.
Vortex
page 162: Hereeountstheflrstinstancehimself...: CommanderRichardE.Byrd,
Skyward,
pp. 27-28.
page 163: “I should have refused, ...”: Bennett repeated it to Bernt Balchen, who related it in
Come North With Me.
page 163: “I knew we were heading toward Paris, ...”: Byrd,
Skyward,
p. 267.
page 164: “really wanted to go ...”: Byrd,
Alone,
p. 3.
page 165: “I deprecate the use ...”:
NYT,
June 28, 1928.
page 165: “I believe that the flight ...”: Byrd, in Boston Herald, Sept. 3, 1927.
page 166: “because pontoons stick to water ...”:
NYT,
June 5, 1928.
page 166: “I had decided ...”: Charles Lindbergh,
We,
p. 202.
page 166: By the time Byrd and Elmer ...:
NYT,
June 6, 1928.
page 167: “everything.”:
NYT,
June 19, 1928.
page 167: The Cardwell, all by itself....: Ibid.
page 167: “the safest and best equipped ..”:
NYT,
June 19, 1928.
page 167: music of Meyer Davis.:
BET,
June 4, 1928.
page 168: In the interests of secrecy all of his shots of Amelia ...: JM,
LITHW,
IX p. 13, SLRC.
page 168: “It wasn't so much ...”: JM,
LITHW,
IX p. 13, SLRC.
page 168: “She couldn't have resembled ...”: GPP,
SW,
p. 176.
page 169: “People got out of the way...” BET, June 23, 1928.
page 169: hers borrowed from a friend, ...:
Aeronautic Review,
Jan. 1928.
page 169: a will of sorts....: AOE papers, SLRC.
page 170: “popping off” letters ...: GPP,
SW,
p. 57.
page 170: I have tried to play ...”:
NYT,
June 5, 1928.
page 171: The fog comes on ...: AE,
FOI,
p. 66.
page 171: According to Phil Coolidge, ...: JM,
LITHW,
X p. 12a, SLRC.
page 171: On Saturday ...:
BG,
June 2, 1928.
page 172: “It's like being ...”: JM,
LITHW,
IX p. 16, SLRC.
page 172: “But you got the feeling, ...”: Ibid.
page 172: The sun, she noticed, ...: AE,
20H,
p. 120.
page 172: Just before they closed the door, ...: JM,
LITHW,
IX p. 33, SLRC.
page 173: Exultantly, Amelia wrote ...: AE, Flight Log, Seaver Center in Western History Research, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.
page 173: a few minutes into the flight, ...: AE, Flight Log, Seaver Center.
page 174: the
Friendship
dove through the clouds ...:
NYHT,
June 4, 1928.
page 174: There had been rumors ...:
BET,
June 4, 1928.
page 174: little to her liking: ...: AE, Flight Log, Seaver Center.
page 175: “Girl and Stultz ...”:
NYHT,
June 5, 1928.
page 175: “The sea,” Amelia wrote ...: Ibid. (The evening edition of
The Boston
Globe would proudly report that their stringer was the first reporter to talk to the fliers.)
Trepassey
page 178: “Good trip from Halifax....”:
NYT,
June 5, 1928.
page 178: twenty-one out of thirty days ...: Weather for Cape Race, June 1928, from Stu Porter, Canadian Scientific Services Meteorologist.
page 179: Those planes had had problems ...: Richard K. Smith,
First Across.
page 179: “But soon after our arrival ...”: Commander Richard E. Byrd,
Skyward,
pp. 91-92.
page 179: “a howling gale.”: AE,
20H,
p. 147.
page 179: Amelia cabled George Putnam: ...:
NYT,
June 4, 1928.
page 181: “get out of this trap ...”: AE,
20H.
page 181: Her last entry ...: AE, Flight Log, Seaver Center for Western History Research.
page 181: In London Amy Guest, horrified at the turn ...:
NYT,
June 7, 1928.
page 182: “We shoved off...”: AE, in
Cosmopolitan,
May 1929.
page 182: Slim went out to check ...: AE, Flight Log, Seaver Center.
page 183: encouraging news awaited them: ...: NYHT, June 8, 1928.
page 183: “and within the next ...”:
Evening Telegram,
June 7, 1928.
page 183: Amelia appeared cheerful, ...:
NYT,
June 9, 1928.
page 183: “Rasche is the one to fear....”: AE, Flight Log, Seaver Center.
page 184: “I could choke Frazer....”: Ibid.
page 185: Before the last attempt, ...: JM,
LITHW,
SLRC.
page 186: “the desperate straits ...”:
NYHT,
June 13, 1928.
page 187: “the real fault ...”:
NYHT,
June 13, 1928.
page 188: Amelia later told George Putnam ...: GPP,
SW,
p. 61.
page 190: “so could we....”: AE,
20H,
p. 169.
page 190: “Two are required ...: Ibid., p. 168.
page 190: spent the day drinking ...: GPP,
SW,
p. 60.
page 191: Burnham watched Amelia ...: F. Burnham Gill, “First Woman to Cross the Atlantic in a Flying Boat,”
Newfoundland Quarterly,
vol. 60, no. 4 (1961-62).
page 191: “We have a dandy breeze ...”:
ET,
June 18, 1928.
page 191: “precariously nervous” ...: JM,
LITHW,
X p. 7, SLRC.
page 192: “I was crowded in the cabin ...: AE,
FOI,
p. 73.
page 192: Observers watched the plane ...: ET, June 18, 1928.
page 192: only seven hundred gallons of fuel.: AE,
20H,
p. 170.
page 192: To plot their course, ...:
Cosmopolitan,
May 1929.
page 193: “wonderful greens and blues”: AE, in
NYT,
June 19, 1928.
page 194: “Bill sits up alone....”: AE, 20H, p. 187.
page 195: “Well, that's out,” ...:
NYT,
June 21, 1928. In spite of the uncertainty of their position, Amelia had the presence of mind to take a picture of the ship before closing the hatch in the bottom of the fuselage; it was probably at this time that, inspired by the oranges, she dropped Bill Stultz's bottle into the sea.
page 196: The sandwich flew out ...: AE,
20H,
p. 196.
page 197: called up Cyril Jefferies, junior clerk ...: Cyril Jefferies,
I Was There,
reprinted in the Golden Jubilee Program, June 18, 1978; reprinted in
The Mansion,
June 1983, Blair County Historical Society bulletin, Blair County, Pennsylvania.
page 198: “I came ashore ...”:
NYT,
June 19, 1928.
Golden Girl
page 200: There on the dock ...:
NYT,
June 19, 1928.
page 201: “I am caught ...”:
NYT,
June 21, 1928.
page 201: managed to gain entrance ...:
NYHT,
June 21, 1928.
page 202: kept hiring secretaries ...:
NYT,
June 28, 1928.
page 202: “I don't want to be known ...”:
London Times,
June 20, 1928.
page 203: “She spoke calmly ...”:
NYT,
June 26, 1928.
page 204: “It was wonderful,” ...:
NYT,
July 8, 1928.
page 204: tried her hand at flying ...: Nathan Browne, Columbia OH.
page 204: “What did she say? ...”:
BG,
July 7, 1937.
page 205: As the train rolled out of Pittsburgh, ...:
NYT,
July 25, 1928; AE, 20H, p. 289.
page 206: “I fell from literary ... : GPP,
WM,
p. 27.
page 207: He was, he said, “an easterner ...”: GPP,
WM,
p. 49.
page 207: cut such a wide swath ...: Mary Lovell,
Sound of Wings,
p. 372.
page 209: Just that past winter ...: Bradford Washburn, interview with author.
page 209: was astonished in later years ...: Ibid.
page 210: “My book goes to press ...”: AE, letter to Marian Stabler, postmarked Aug. 16, 1928, IWASML.
page 210: In re-reading the manuscript ...: AE,
20H,
p. 9.
page 211: received more press coverage ...:
NYT,
July 31, 1928.
page 211: wrote her a “stiff” letter ...: JM,
LITHW,
SLRC.
page 211: “the popular phases of aviation.”: GPP,
SW,
p. 196.
page 211: “The night's activities....”: AE, letter to AOE, Aug. 12, 1928, SLRC.
page 212: “Please throw away rags ...”: AE, letter to AOE, Aug. 26, 1928, SLRC.
page 212: Lady Heath had rushed home ...: Mary Lovell,
Sound of Wings,
p. 127.
page 212: a leap of faith ...:
Cosmopolitan, Jan.
1929.
page 212: they would earn $12,460; ...: GPP,
SW
, p. 190.
page 212: “To Amelia Earhart ...”: AE,
FOI,
p. 88. “Always think with your stick forward” is a reminder that if the mind wanders and the nose goes up, the plane goes into a stall.
page 212: was almost as small,...: C. A. Sims, British Aircraft.
page 213: ... opt for licensing the Avian ...: Porter Adams, letter to Major Clarence Young, July 31, 1928; Major Young, letter to Porter Adams, Aug. 3, 1928; NASM files.
page 214: On the last Friday in August, ...:
NYT,
Sept. 1, 1928.
page 214: “a perfect landing ...”:
NYT,
Sept. 1, 1928.
page 214: “taken the precaution ...”:
Cosmopolitan,
Dec. 1928.
page 215: Miss Earhart had visited ...:
NYT,
Sept. 1, 1928.
page 215: number of white flags ...:
Muskogee Daily Phoenix,
Sept. 5, 1928.
page 215: There is a prophetic 1928 photo ...: AE, 20H, p. 298.
page 215: No money in the world ...: NYHT, June 6, 1928.
page 216: It had gotten to the point ...:
PA,
Aug. 1928.
page 216: “She said she hated ...”:
Muskogee Daily Phoenix,
Sept. 5, 1928.
page 217: She followed her last compass course ...: AE,
Los Angeles Times,
Sept. 18, 1928.
page 218: Suddenly the Avian was nose down ...:
Yuma Morning Sun,
Sept. 15, 1928.
page 219: “I am going to find out ...”:
Salt Lake Tribune,
Oct. 1, 1928.
page 219: how it thinned ...: Mariana Gosnell,
Zero 3 Bravo.
page 219: Amelia was signed on ...: for the November issue.
page 219: “the” hot media topic ...: WABC had a Friday-night “Aviation Hour.”
page 220: “the year of 1929 is ...”
Cosmopolitan,
Mar. 1929.
page 220: usually a mystery story.:
Cosmopolitan,
Jan. 1931.
page 221: Indeed, years later, ...: JM,
LITHW,
SLRC.
page 221: I talked at the Better Times dinner ...: AE, letter to Mr. Hesley, Dec. 10, 1928, Special Collection Manuscripts, Wald Collection, Columbia.
page 221: that she could be a resident.: JM,
LITHW,
XII pp. 9-10, SLRC.
page 221: came to the settlement house....: Records of Greenwich House, Tamiment Library, NYU.
page 223: If she had stayed in social work, ...: JM,
LITHW,
XII pp. 10, 12, 13, SLRC.
page 223: “Are you interested to know ...”: JM,
LITHW,
XII p. 12, SLRC.
page 224: She spoke at the children's annual ...: Records of Greenwich House, Tamiment Library, NYU; Mary Simkhovitch,
Neighborhood: My Story of Greenwich House.
page 224: She also arranged ...: AE, letter to AOE, Aug. 9, 1929, SLRC.
Dreams Come True
page 225: He had been stunting ...:
NYT,
July 2 and 3, 1929.
page 226: “very drunk,” ...:
NYHT,
July 6, 1929.
page 226: a combination air-rail trip ...: R. E. G. Davies,
Airlines of the United States Since 1914,
p. 85.
page 227: No effort was spared ...: Dorothy Binney Putnam, in
Sportsman Pilot,
Aug. 1929.
page 227: By the time Amelia's ...:
NYHT,
July 30, 1929; John Underwood,
Madcaps, Millionaires and “Mose,”
p. 46.
page 227: another TAT plane crashed, ...: Anne Lindbergh, Hours of Gold, p. 122. The accident was January 19.
page 228: She weighed in with the following blast, ...:
NYT,
July 12, 1929.
page 229: She settled on a five-passenger model ...: Aircraft registration 6911 NASN, Historical A/C Listing, NASM file.
page 230: the foulest plane he had ever flown.: AE, LF, p. 14.
page 230: “A chance to play the game ...”:
Woman's Journal,
Oct. 1929.
page 230: the $8,000 jackpot ...: Glenn Buffington, “History Relived 60 Years Later,” IWASM.
page 231: second day, landing at Yuma ...: Bobbi Trout, interview with author.
page 231: she had loaded herself down ...: C. B. Allen, “The Vindication of Amelia Earhart,” NASM.
page 231: The fliers won ...: Doris Rich,
Amelia Earhart,
p. 94.

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