Title

East to the dawn: the life of Amelia Earhart.

Description

Susan Butler's biographical work on aviator Amelia Earhart.

Identifier

2500180

201311445

Creator

Butler, Susan

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1997

Program air date: December 14, 1997

Publisher

Addison-Wesley

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Subject

"Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937."

"Women air pilots--United States--Biography."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

Rights

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Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: Ninety Nines. The Vega. What was Lindbergh's flight. Fall "The fun of it" a book of 932 for sale right after Atlantic flight. Book 20 hrs and 40 min. Gene Vidal-son-in-law (lover) of blind TN Senator Thomas Gore. Paul Collins. b. July 24, 1897. Who is Gener Vidal--what's relationship to Gore Vidal (p 291) Gene's underwear. National Airways--4 invested $2500 became Northeast A. What was the Bendix race. Amelia and Eleanor R p. 280. What role did Pan Am play in the round the world trip. Eleanor R. rejected George P as an agent--wanted A.E. to fly her around country p 329. 1935--most productive years. Spoke 136x's before 80,000 people at $300 lecture. Grossing $46,000--steno payed 200 week. Will Rogers/Wiley Post/A.E. Took delivery of Lockheed Electra-Bday July 24, 1936 (39th). The Bendix. Friendship flight 20 hrs 40 mins. How many times did she have a forced landing. [Verso] Will Rogers, Laura Ingalls, Wiley Post. Fred Norman--navigator drinking problem. George Manning, Paul Mantz, Carl Allen-reporter. 27,000 miles. Refueling by the Navy money from the N.Y. Times. Notes on front fly sheet: Thick ankles. 5'8" 118 lbs. 1927 Limbaugh landed in Paris 33 hours. New York Times paid him $125,000. Where did the name friendship come from. Who was Richard Byrd. 1928-Flight over Atlantic--first woman--Folker. Amelia--29, Slim Gordon 27, Bill Stultz. Francis Perkins. Denison House--Boston. Ogontz--Finishing school in Phil. Hospital in Toronto. 1920 Amelia moved to L.A. fell in love with flying. 1st 40 U.S. mail pilots--all but 9 died. She learned to fly in 1921. Underlinings/Notes: "social worker," "Fay Wells," "first interview," "Muriel still alive," "poor," "unpublished bio," "brown clothes," "a feminist, a romantic, a dreamer," "4 stock holders on Northeast A.," "Purdue consultant," "New York Herald Tribune," "Piano legs," "Amelia 30," "women," "George Putnam," "seaplane," "Lady Lindy image," "Sam Chapman," "20 hours," "42 degrees," "fog," "liquor," "landed in Wales," "social worker," "Cosmo," "legs," "95% men," "the 99s," "TAT lost money," "women must fly," "tonsils out," "1929 Bermuda," "coached her on speaking," "divorce," "1930 Uncle dies," "Amelia letter," "marriage license," "letter to George before marriage," "didn't fear," "G.P. married 4 x's," "no wedding ring," "autogiro trouble," "fly blind," "5th anniversary of Lindbergh's flight," "destination Paris," "landed in Iceland," "most famous, most celebrated woman in world," "DAR Constitution Hall," "flight across America," "1925 Gore Vidal," "Hugh Auchincloss," "glowing," "Lucy," "Aug 1932, another record," "Amelia and E.R.," "E.R. carried a pistol," "E.R. no lessons," "night flight," "Ogden Reid," "men's underwear," "Sept 34," "the cat," "Jan 11 took off," "single engine," "Public criticism," "the Vega," "George baby," "18 hours, 16 minutes," "tired," "G.P. for Eleanor as agent," "Wanted A.E. to fly her around America," "rejected G.P. as agent," "Mexico," "needed 3 miles of runway," "Wiley Post," "fly over D.C.'s Hoover airport," "George "vanity," "3 records," "arrive Newark 1st 2,100 miles 14 hrs 18 min.," "Average income $1,348 98% of Americans made less than 5000$.," "lectures, books, mag articles," "smoking," "menses," "Gore Vidal men's underwear," "1935 Paul Mantz," "Mantz marriage breaks up," "The Bendix," "Aug 30, 1935," "5th place," "Laura Ingalls," "Lockheed Electra," "more weight," "Aug crash," "twin engine," "Burbank," "Bendix 1936," "a woman wins Bendix," "Atlantic," "Gene fired?" "A.E. wires E.R. regarding Gene V.," FDR cancels firing," "A.E. endorses FDR," "round the world," "Biplane 1st 1931," "A.E. 27,000," "lied about her age," "fun," "Purdue liked it," "first love piano," "eye fatigue," "biggest problem Pacific," "refueling by the Navy," "letter to FDR," "Line Islands," "navigator," "backed out," "Harry Manning," "around her finger," "Navy cooperation," "March 9," "Carl Allen," "Fred Noonan added a navigator," "stores for trip," "10,000 camped," "Wed Mar 17, 4:36 take off," "Paul all but fired," "untruths," "crash," "planes shipped to Burbank," "couldn't cope," "fly east," "one obsession growing old," "God," "official lift off around the world," "Tucson," "New Orleans," "Puerto Rico," "Natal," "Dakar," "St. Louis, Senegal," "Gao," "Karachi," "new attitude," "Calcutta," "Fred drinking again?" "Burma," "Rangoon," "Singapore," "June 21 Bandung," "Bandung again June 20 to June 26," "no worse for wear," "Cheyenne, Wy George's last conversation," "June 27, Port Darwin, Aus. June 28," "Lae, New Guinea Tuesday June 29," "11,000 ft.," "Fred's drinking," "something wrong," "In Lae," "Howland," "Lae weather forecast," "Itasca," "2,556 miles to Howland Is.," "21 hours in the air," "2 miles long 1/2 mile wide," "17 hours, 15 min.," "19 hrs into flight, gas low," "cannot hear report," "20 hrs 14 min.," "silence," "cloudy," "float for 8 days," "sharks and barracuda," "weather goes bad, snow, sleet," "11 days to Howland," "met FDR," "Japanese," "Aoki 1984 not published in US," "sunk to bottom," "important," "Saipan," "no Japanese saw her, " "nothing of military importance," "B-17, 22 days," "Lady Lindy," "others died," "America's sweetheart 39 forever, America's dream woman, more revered now," "Ann Pellegreno, Linda Finch."