AMELIA EARHART (Adventure-She lives only for what is just over the horizon and strives always to be first and best.): Born July 24, 1897, Atchison, Kansas. American pilot, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic (as a passenger) in 1928. She became widely known as “Lady Lindy”, because of her resemblance to Charles Lindbergh (“Lucky Lindy”). Married her promoter, George Palmer Putnam, a publishing magnate in 1931. Became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932. Held many other records, including fastest cross-country flight by a woman, distance and speed record for a woman, and first solo flight across the Pacific.
Vanished July 2, 1937, while flying from Lae, New Guinea, to tiny Howland Island, nearing the end of a round-the-world flight. After her last radio contact with the U.S.S. Itasca, she was never seen again.
(Amelia’s track also includes: Madge, Clara Miller, Robert Semple, A woman healed by Aimee, Kenneth Ormiston, Nancy Neele, A mover, a beachgoer named Dolores, various reporters as indicated.)
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