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Everyone knows the final journey of Emilia Erhart. But what about the years before their disappearance?
in “Pilot and the man of the show” (It will be published on July 15 by Viking), the documentary and journalist Lori Join Shapiro relies on newly achieved sources to explore the life of the famous pilot and her marriage to the archaeological publisher George Putnam. Their relationship was a relationship that raised love and advertising, especially the risk of legendary highlands.
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“The Pilot and the Man of the Display”, written by Lori Join Shapiro
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Amelia Erhart was sitting on the other side of George Palmer Putnam. He was on the phone, did not admit it, and took his beautiful time. He was a inflamed publisher and made the job that he liked to be in the news. Putnam has always been photographed with famous people: standing next to Charles Lindberg, the first man to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean; Protise with Commander Bird, the man who invaded the Antarctic; Smile with Howard Carter, the man who discovered King Tut. Amelia was thirty -one years, a social worker in Boston. She was not a famous person. But unknown to her that the spring of 1928, Putnam decided that he wanted to create a new hero – the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a plane! – The counterpart to the most famous man in the world, Charles Lindberg.
Putnam sent their feelings to find candidates for such a heroine, who had just had to be the first passenger in the Atlantic Ocean. The idea was familiar: by largely risky adventure care, finding an attractive person physically and ready to strike his private life, signing an exclusive deal for everyone, spreading something to the maximum, and achieving a fortune in book sales. Soon a word came from Boston: The old friend of George Putnam, a public relations man named Colonel Hilton Haul Riley, found an ideal candidate: Miss Erhartt was a good experienced, and she spoke well, and had a fun appearance. George’s response was fast and decisive: “You should be in my office by the beginning of the next morning!” When George Palmer Putnam wanted to do things, there was no room for the argument. Riley Amelia was told that someone in New York City wanted to see her about a possible flight project. She was only a full -time social worker and a part -time pilot, but Amelia’s heart beats faster on the possibility of propaganda, which is rare for any woman, and even the most accomplished pilot. I agreed to go to New York. Riley was accompanied by Boston to train. On Street 2 West Voron V, off Vivath Avenue, the huge Potanam banner is fluttering from the roof. The Putnam building reached sixteen floors in the publishing area in the Jazz area in New York, and reached sixteen stories. An elegant retail library has been in a hallway, and its main location in the newspapers is often described as “only 100 feet from fifth place.” The Times Square, who is now singing with Neon, was just two blocs, and was recently crashed into Herald Square as the active heart of Manhattan.
On the day of Amellia, thirty skyscrapers have already reshaped the city center, as the area turned into an eagerness crowded with neon lights. The boycott includes mourners such as New York TimesThe most respected newspapers in the city, and New YorkerA sharp rising star in the media scene, even in 1928, had a great influence among the cultural elite. Riley Amelia brought to the elegant reception room for the children of GP Putnam and presented it to the elegant and professional Secretary of George, Miss Josephine “Joe” Berger. The usual clothes of women working in the field of publishing-parked socks and low heels of T-Stred-Theels-wore their respected brown dress, with a dried nose and texture of Rouge and Emilia, unreasonably mixed in Advan Urban in the office.
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Without her knowledge at that moment, Amelia Erhart was preparing to become his next great victory. George, the peacock in the handsome office, was still making a strong phone call, and his deep voice fills the office. He was wearing a flawed double chest suit, and he was well aware of the room’s driving-the signs of admired looks that were often followed. To kill more minutes, Amelia’s eyes may have wiped what was held on the book Treasury: There was a book of the famous GP Putnam in Lindbergh, “we” (These strange quotes on all hats) may have occurred by the Lindberg Cylinder himself. Should you admit that there is a picture of a newspaper cut off from Lindberg in its social worker’s bedroom? Will this be seen as real admiration or a gesture too much for women for women in their age?
Finally, the publisher ended his call, which allowed great silence before inquiring, “What about you? Do you consider yourself risks?” Amelia replied, “This depends. I am here to learn more.” The amount of detection weighs, and after securing its promise to secrecy, he participated in a glimpse of the secret project: It was exploring that it was a passenger to be the first throughout the Atlantic Ocean.
Years later, when the name Amelia rang with a louder voice than George, Riley confessed frankly – on the record – that he was in that particular room the day when George Palmer Putnam met Umilia Erhart. Thinking about this important meeting, Riley had been achieved throughout those years after that: for George, “Love at first sight” was undoubtedly.
From “The A. Publishing Rights © 2025 by Lori Join Shapiro.
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