AMERICAN AVIATRIX

Domesticity has failed to dull Amelia Earhart Putnam's ardor for flying, or for taking the lead in aeronautical enterprise. Within the year the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air has also been the first of her sex to fly an autogiro, the first pilot, male or female, to cross the continent in a "windmill plane" and the only person ever to go up for an altitude record in such a machine.

Miss Earhart made no pretense about her part in the Atlantic flight—and probably held the spotlight all the more because of the repeated assertion that she was "just baggage". When the shouting subsided after her return to America, Miss Earhart became aviation editor for a magazine and, subsequently, a vice president of two well known aviation transport companies