page 327: “I am getting tired ...”: Ibid., p. 31.
page 327: “Not while there's life ...:
NYT
, Jan. 13, 1935.
page 328: “I thought there might be ...”: Ibid.
page 328: The Nation, acting a bit prim, ...:
Nation,
Jan. 30, 1935.
page 328: She extended Amelia ...: Eleanor Roosevelt, telegram to AE, Jan. 16, 1935, FDRL.
page 328: “you need not always ...”: Eleanor Roosevelt, letter to AE, Mar. 12, 1935, FDRL.
page 329: “Would you like GP ...”: AE, letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, Mar. 9, 1935, FDRL.
page 329: “GP has left ...”: Jean Backus,
Letters From Amelia,
p. 171.
page 329: “touching on matters ...”: GPP, letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, Mar. 14, 1935, FDRL.
page 329: Eleanor shot this down....: Eleanor Roosevelt, to GPP, Mar. 15, 1935, FDRL.
page 329: “No discussion ...”: GPP, letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, Mar. 19, 1935, FDRL.
page 329: “if Amelia is free.”: Eleanor Roosevelt, letter to GPP, Mar. 22, 1935, FDRL.
page 329: “Definitely a plane ...”: GPP, letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, Mar. 25, 1935, FDRL.
page 329: Tugwell felt ...: Rexford Tugwell, letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, Apr. 15, 1935, FDRL.
page 330: he thought her decision “admirable,”: GPP, letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 24, 1935.
page 330: Within a short time ...: Maurine Beasley,
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Media,
p. 82.
page 330: he was “highly irritated ...”: Mexico Press Agency, National Archives.
page 331: Their sale, some reputedly ...:
Newsweek,
May 11, 1935.
page 331: She pulled out her chart ...: AE,
LF,
p. 36.
page 331: At the Mexico City ...:
NYT
, Apr. 21, 1935.
page 332: “Nature does as thorough ...”:
NYT,
May 3, 1935.
page 333: “Slowly I climbed ...”: AE,
LF,
p. 42.
page 333: “Did Wiley Post, ... : Ibid., pp. 34-35.
page 333: shot out over the Gulf : ...:
Newsweek,
May 18, 1935.
page 334: As her green and red navigation lights ...:
NYT,
May 9, 1935.
page 334: Reporters noted that he ...:
Newsweek,
May 18, 1935.
page 334: “her face was tanned ...”:
NYT,
May 9, 1935.
page 334: “That's
a flier!”:
GPP,
SW,
p. 270.
page 334: “No one should ...”: AE, LF, p. 31.
page 335: The newspaper coverage ...:
NYT,
May 9, 1935.
New Frontiers
page 336: After all, ...: William Manchester,
The Glory and the Dream,
p. 149.
page 336: “Flying with me ...”
New York World Telegram,
May 9, 1935.
page 336: “I received an invitation ...”: Ibid.
page 336: All the famous fliers, ...: Carl B. Allen article, NASM.
page 337: “During the menstrual period ...”: Malcolm C. Grow and Henry G. Armstrong,
Fit to Fly.
page 337: In 1943 the Air Transport Command ...: Sally Keil,
Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines,
p. 129.
page 337: The order only became moot, ...: Ibid, p. 169.
page 338: Amelia was assembling evidence.: GPP,
SW,
p. 163.
page 338: “We never think about it ...”: Ibid.
page 339: she spoke 136 times ...: Don Dwiggins,
Hollywood
Pilot, p. 95.
page 339: a time when the average stenographer ...:
Fortune,
Aug. 1935.
page 339: He had watched ...: Biographical information from Dwiggins,
Hollywood Pilot.
page 340: But in September 1934 he buzzed ...: Ibid., p. 79.
page 340: While testing Amelia's Vega ...: Ibid., p. 144.
page 340: “Damn near ...”: GPP,
SW,
p. 235.
page 340: “warmed their paws ...”: Ibid.
page 340: She had stayed with the Mantzes ...: Dwiggins,
Hollywood Pilot,
p. 78.
page 340: There was never evidence ...: Ibid.
page 341: each got twenty thousand dollars.: James Haggerty,
Aviation's Mr.
Sam, p. 38; JM,
LITHW,
SLRC.
page 341: “all hep about this too.”: AE, letter to AOE, Jul. 28, 1935, Backus,
Letters,
p. 178.
page 341: “constant hammering”: Dwiggins,
Hollywood Pilot,
p. 86.
page 342: “the old family bus,”: Paul owned an equally old and slow Vega; according to Don Dwiggins, they couldn't decide which would be faster and finally flipped to see which one to useâbut the story lacks credibility. Possibly this is what Paul told his biographer to save face, but it would not have been Amelia's style to race across the country in a plane with
The Honeymoon Express
emblazoned on its fuselage.
page 343: It was just one more flight ...:
NYHT,
Aug. 31, 1935.
page 343: Then Amelia went off...: AE itinerary, Sept. 30 to Nov. 3, SLRC.
page 343: “I'd like to find the tree ...”:
St. Paul Pioneer Press,
Oct. 6, 1935.
page 344: “Wiley, you'd better...”: Clarence L. Johnson with Maggie Smith,
More Than My Share of It All,
p. 41.
page 345: There were four Electra 10 models, ...: Ibid., p. 50.
page 346: “My boss called me ...”: John A. Diehl, letter to author.
page 346: She was one of two ...:
PA,
Oct. 1937.
page 346: “sensible, very studious, ...”: Johnson,
More Than My Share,
p. 46.
page 346: “I could write poetry ...”:
NYT
, Aug. 30, 1935.
page 347: Later they had to deal ...: Glenn Kerfoot,
Propeller Annie,
p. 65.
page 347: Their problems paled, ...: Louise Thaden,
High, Wide, and Frightened,
p. 184.
page 347: “I'm afraid you won ...”: Blanche Noyes, Columbia OH, p. 22.
page 348: “I don't think there was a jealous ...”: Ibid., p. 35.
page 348: “I don't know ...”:
NYT,
Sept. 6, 1936.
page 348: she was obviously nervous”:
Washington Post,
May 1, 1936.
page 349: “Amelia has consented ...”: Paul Mantz, letter to Gene Vidal, June 26, 1936, Vidal collection, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
page 349: “Still can't leave here.”: Gene Vidal, letter to AE, June 30, 1936, Vidal collection.
page 349: What did Amelia think?: Gene Vidal, letter to AE, June 16, 1936, Vidal collection.
page 349: “After your note ...”: Gene Vidal to AE, June 30, 1936, Vidal Collection.
page 349: “it is the quietest period ...”: Gene Vidal, letter to AE, Aug. 14, 1936, Vidal collection.
page 349: even though FDR ...: White House Ushers Diary.
page 350: I AM WIRING ...: FDRL.
page 350: burst out laughing....: JM,
LITHW,
XVI p. 11, SLRC.
page 350: The next day he had lunch ...:
NYT,
Sept. 17, 1936.
page 351: THANK YOU SINCERELY ...: AE, cable to Eleanor Roosevelt, FDRL.
page 351: “I am aligned ...”:
NYT,
Sept. 20, 1936.
page 351: she, not George, was at the wheel ...:
NYT,
Sept. 27, 1936.
page 352: “she plans to include ...”: Gene Vidal, letter to Mary Dewson, Dewson file, FDRL.
page 352: “We really are very grateful ...”: Mary Dewson, letter to Gene Vidal, Oct. 1, 1936. Dewson file, FDRL.
page 352: “What
color
is ...”: JM,
LITHW,
XVI p. 5, SLRC.
page 352: “as her fans peered ...” Gore Vidal,
Armageddon,
p. 25.
page 352: The first person to race ...: Carroll V Glines,
Round-the- World Flights,
p. ix. This account of the first round-the-world travelers is based on Glines' excellent book.
page 353: By 1913, ...: Ibid., p. x.
page 353: “Would you do it ...”: Ibid., p. 1.
page 353: Major Jimmy Doolittle ...:
Air Pilot
magazine, Apr. 1933.
page 353: Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, ...: Glines,
Round-the-World Flights,
p. 63.
page 354: Amy Mollison ...: International Women's Air and Space Museum, Quarterly, vol. I no. 3 (1987).
page 354: Here was shining adventure ...: AE,
LF,
p. 55.
The Plan
page 356: “She was caught up in the hero racket ...”: Railey,
Touch'd with Madness,
p. 110.
page 356: “it is the only major flight ...”: Louise Thaden,
High, Wide, and Frightened,
p. 260.
page 357: The Purdue Research Foundation statement ...: Report of the director of the Purdue Research Foundation, G. Stanley Meikle, in
Campus Copy
(former Purdue publication), Oct. 1962.
page 357: “become associated in the ...”: Ibid.
page 357: Purdue had already been involved ...:
PA,
July 1936.
page 357: The most important subject today ...:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Apr. 7, 1936.
page 358: He arranged for a leading ...: Carl Allen, unpublished manuscript, NASM.
page 358: The furnishings ...: JM,
The Christian Herald
magazine, Jan. 1936.
page 358: “a Roman dream of elegance, ...” : GPP to AOE, Nov. 16, 1937.
page 358: “I am deeply sorry ...”: AE, letter to MEM, Jan. 31, 1937, SLRC.
page 359: “Please tell Pidge ...”: AE, letter to MEM, Nov. 23, 1935, Jean Backus,
Letters from Amelia,
p. 183.
page 359: “was just completely covered ...”: MEM, Columbia OH.
page 359: The Department of Agriculture ...: Capt. E.C. Edelmann.
America's First Lady of Flight,
Fraternal Order of Air Mail Pilots, June 1, 1962.
page 360: Would Gene find out ...: GPP, letter to Gene Vidal, Aug. 3,1936, State Department records, National Archives.
page 360: The original proposed route ...: GPP, letter to Gene Vidal, Oct. 15, 1936, State Department records, National Archives.
page 361: superbly manipulative letter ...: Malvina Schneider, letter to Southgate, June 29, 1936, FDRL.
page 361: Every single country ...: Numerous letters from the State Department to foreign governments, National Archives. Only France thought to query the department as to the intrinsic safety of the so-configured Electra.
page 361: “considers the plane to be satisfactory ...”: State Department files, National Archives.
page 361: “There is no hope of permission...”: Day letter from Southgate, Mar. 8, 1937, National Archives.
page 361: “Dear Mrs. Earhart,” ...: GPP, letter to AOE, Jan. 16, 1937, SLRC.
page 362: The navy, according to internal memos, ...: Records of the office of the Chief of Naval Operations, National Archives.
page 362: “Dear Mr. President; ...: AE, letter to FDR, Nov. 10, 1936, FDRL.
page 363: “The ability of the pilot of the receiving plane ...”: Commander Aircraft, Base Force, letter to Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet, Nov. 29, 1936, National Archives.
page 363: Moreover, Pan American ...:
NYT,
Mar. 14, 1935. Pan Am immediately began loading a supply ship at Seattle with machinery and equipment for its air bases.
page 364: The first China Clipper ...: William Grooch,
Skyway to Asia,
p. 129.
page 364: “whoever first moved ...”: C. B. Allen,
NYHT,
Feb. 28, 1937.
page 365: “there is gallantry even in ...”: Ibid.
page 365: “During the late part of 1936,” ...: Richard Black, Columbia OH.
page 365: Gene sent Robert L. Campbell, ...: Ibid.
page 365: She wrote about her ...: Acting budget director, memo to FDR, Jan. 8, 1937, FDRL.
page 366: “competent aviation mechanics ...”: GPP to secretary of war, Jan. 30, 1937, National Archives.
page 366: Brad received a phone call ...: Washburn interview. At least one other biographer, Paul Briand, Jr., interviewed Washburn. Washburn, a scrupulously honest man, must have told Briand that Amelia never asked him to be navigator, and in the interests of telling a good story, Briand left it out of his book.
page 367: He, too, remembered spreading ...: Paul Collins,
Tales of an Old Air-Faring Man,
p. 147.
page 367: The navy was notified ...: Telegram, naval files, National Archives.
page 368: He would be visiting ...:
NYT,
Mar. 5, 1937.
page 368: “I can say this much, ...”:
NYT,
Mar. 21, 1937.
page 368: Gene's orders to William Miller ...: Secretary of the navy, cable of instructions, Feb. 15, 1937, National Archives.
page 369: The countdown ...: Amelia planned to put the maps into one suitcase ; that and another suitcase, containing an extra pair of slacks, a few shirts, a mechanic's garb, a change of linen, and a toothbrush, were all she would take with her. Four half-pound Nestle chocolate bars, six cans of malted milk tablets, three one-pound packages of raisins, one package of dried apricots, one package of prunes, two cans of ripe bananas,
and three cans of tomato juice would end up stored in a waterproof zipper bag.
page 369: (Amelia posed with the loop ...:
NYHT,
Mar. 7, 1937.
page 369: “unless the weather ...”:
San Francisco Chronicle,
Mar. 11, 1937.
page 369: the lowest barometric reading ...:
San Francisco Chronicle,
Mar. 13, 1937.
page 369: Amelia was handling ...: Ibid.
page 369: “Well, between 185 pounds ...”:
San Francisco Chronicle,
Mar. 11, 1937.