Word: aviatrix
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...crack up, send me purple pansies; I like them best"?and took off into the swirling fog from the Pacific. A few minutes later she was dead. Her Barling monoplane Agua Caliente plowed into a hillside four miles north of the airport. Investigators searching the aviatrix' room found a note to (and revealing that she had been married three months ago to) Robert A. Elliott, Naval Reserve pilot. Excerpt: "If I have preceded you, do not grieve for me, but be content. Finish your work down here and make me proud of you. . . . And when you come I will...
...Young." Against doctors' orders Commander Amy sat in the place of honor, nibbling dry toast. Publisher Rothermere's son, Hon. Edmond Cecil Harmsworth, handed her a contract for all her writings, a check for $50,000. Besides Riflewoman Marjorie Foster, other heroines present included Miss Winifred Brown, aviatrix who won the King's Cup for a race round England (TIME, June 14); Ivy Hawke, Channel swimmer; Diana Fishwick, golf champion; Joan Manning Saunders, exhibitor at the Royal Academy when she was only 16; Sylvia Thompson, novelist...
Born. To Herbert von Thaden, airplane manufacturer, and Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden, noted aviatrix; a son. Last year Mrs. Thaden won the women's air derby from Santa Monica, Calif, to Cleveland, Ohio in 21 hr. 29 min. flying time; once held a women's endurance record of 22 hr. subsequently bettered by the late Marvel Crosson...
Divorced. Sir James Heath. 78, British iron tycoon; by Lady Mary Heath, aviatrix (Capetown-to-London); at Reno, Nev. She called Sir James "the tight knight," said he was "a bit touched...
...that in 1927 she was able to sell Liberty a story called "What's the Matter with American Men?" which lauded foreign bachelors. Her career also includes going to night clubs, attending Broadway openings, working for Saks Fifth Avenue, Manhattan smartmart and such odd jobs as chaperoning Aviatrix Ruth Elder, to whom she introduced her curious and well-bred friends. Sad though her story might be to a gum-chewing public, Miss Oelrichs has declared that she enjoys her life, including the moneymaking...