Still Missing / Lost Star
Ware, Susan & Brink, Randall
A s the ultimate defiance of nature, flying is ,so rich with feminist symbolism that Fear of Flying made a perfect title for the novel that became the bible of fledgling Women's Libbers in the early...
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...She even chides her subject for remaining silent on "same-sex romantic friendships and partnerships that had been so important to earlier generations of women...
...The real story would stagger the imagination," said Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in retirement...
...Ware refrains from calling them elitists—and she does break off from her sloganeering to ask us to "put ourselves in the [early feminists'] shoes"—but clearly that is what bothers her...
...Putnam...
...Twenty dubious years later, the subject of flying has provided another title to another champion of the cause...
...No one can see it, however, because it won't be ready until 2021, when the machines to run it on will no longer be available...
...Even more chilling is what Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau told Eleanor Roosevelt: If we're going to release this, it's just going to smear the whole reputation of Amelia Earhart...
...senator of Portuguese descent...
...By any standard of measurement," gushes Herman J. Viola in his preface to this new biography, "Ben Nighthorse Campbell is a remarkable individual...
...She married G.P...
...He fails to realize that neither fact is of any particular interest...
...Norton / 206 pages / $25 reviewed by FLORENCE KING acter, she worked stoically at a series of dreary office jobs to earn money for the flying lessons that she "knew" she had to take...
...Putnam after making him promise in writing to let her leave him if she found the wedded state unbearable...
...The 31-year-old Amelia got the job and flew into fame...
...Was he married to another woman when he went to China to listen to the tapes...
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...According to Susan •are's book, Putnam married twice more before his death in 1950...
...An anthology of her work, The Florence King Reader, will be published later this year by St...
...Perceiving feminism as stacked up on the runways of life, New York University history professor Susan Ware examines its problems and possibilities through the prism of Jazz Age aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who vanished over the Pacific on a round-the-world flight in 1937...
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...Brink's account of the bender Noonan probably went on the night before their final takeoff and his imaginative reconstruction of Noonan flying with a massive hangover are truly harrowing...
...CI is not justified by the 313 pages of Dull Earnest prose that follow—dull earnest, that is, when the voice is not one of openly confessed, goop-eyed admiration for an admittedly talented and determined man whose "remarkable" feats may not be immediately apparent to the reader...
...T he purpose of Ware's book is to rescue Amelia Earhart from the cult of her disappearance and refocus attention on her life...
...Though she was rarely seen carrying a purse, she took care to add a string of pearls to her usual garb of overalls and leather flying cap...
...Brink believes that Japan wanted the U.S...
...The Japanese carrier-based planes blasted 1 n 1905, fabled Indian warriors, includ- ing the Comanche chief Quanah Parker and the Apache die-hard Geronimo, rode in Theodore Roosevelt's Inaugural Parade...
...After Earhart disappeared in July 1937, the U.S...
...Immured in an unreadable serenity eerily reminiscent of an Ayn Rand charFlorence King writes "The Misanthrope's Corner" column for National Review...
...America was so eager for "women's first" anything that Amelia was hailed as "Lady Lindy" and lionized by an adoring press and public...
...On page 102 he writes: Immediately after Pearl Harbor, Howland Island was the second U.S...
...the Howland airfield into cratered uselessness...
...Whether the union was consummated is for anyone to guess (Ware doesn't try), for Earhart was distinctly "androgynous...
...T he essence of this brand of feminism was leading by example, and Susan Ware is put off by it...
...It was her destiny and she never questioned it, any more than an Ayn Rand character would have...
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...We have the wireless messages...
...Putnam was promoting a transatlantic flight for a Philadelphia dowager who wanted to be 72 The American Spectator April/May 1994 ences" would not be able to make the free choices and implement them the way that Earhart had...
...She exudes an air of condescending regret that the cult heroines of the twenties, with their justdo-it philosophy, were hampered by "a failure of vision" because they were content to be role models: Missing from Earhart's ideology was any awareness that there might be women who for reasons of race, class, sexual orientation, or other "differSTILL MISSING: AMELIA EARHART AND THE SEARCH FOR MODERN FEMINISM Susan Ware W.W...
...territory to be attacked...
...The last wireless message was not a navigation report, as was long thought, says Brink, but a reference to seeing someone who "looks like an admiral," indicating capture by Japanese naval forces in the area...
...Whichever it is, and despite the byzantine FOIA, Brink achieves some extremely effective moments in this book...
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...A s the ultimate defiance of nature, flying is ,so rich with feminist symbolism that Fear of Flying made a perfect title for the novel that became the bible of fledgling Women's Libbers in the early seventies...
...It is statements like this that make Ware's interesting and well-written book so irritating to read...
...Norton/304 pages / $22 LOST STAR: THE SEARCH FOR AMELIA EARHART Randall Brink W.W...
...Despite her mannish pilot's gear, says Ware, Earhart bore little resemblance to the stereotyped upper-class mannish lesbian of the times...
...dreams who stole the spotlight from the contingent of Navajo code-talkers and other legitimate warriors...
...Babe Didrikson, the first woman to win three Olympic gold medals in track and field...
...Female achievement was still a novelty...
...A more telling consideration, which he does not address, is Putnam's marital status in 1944...
...The thing to remember in dealing with the FOIA, says Brink, is that in order to request a secret document, you must know what's in it...
...Earhart had no choice but to adapt...
...B rink makes it clear that Earhart was up to something...
...Fiendishly well-coached for what purpose...
...to think that they had Amelia so they could use her for a bargaining chip in peace negotiations...
...tennis champion Helen Wills...
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...Our hero's sometimes harsh, sometimes Tom Sawyerish youth need not concern us, save to note that a teacher found the 14-year-old Campbell "resentful and hypersensitive"—good traits for a future Professional Ethnic, though his father (apparently "part Apache and part Pueblo Indian and, most likely, part BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL: AN AMERICAN WARRIOR Herman J. Viola Orion Books/ 313 pages /$24 reviewed by WAYNE MICHAEL SARF 74 The American Spectator April/May 1994...
...Does she really believe that Earhart—a Nancy Kerrigan with good grammar—should have extolled Boston marriages...
...I'll stake my life that is not Amelia's voice," said G.P...
...The publisher G.P...
...In tones both indulgent and patronizing, Viola records the rise of an All-American boy and his descent into the role of Professional Ethnic...
...He doesn't uncover the truth about Earhart, but he certainly uncovers the truth about the exalted FOIA...
...The bomb damage has never been repaired...
...government quickly acknowledged her death as fact, yet in 1944 it made her husband a major in Army intelligence and sent him to China to listen to Tokyo Rose tapes to see if he could identify her voice...
...Ware does a fascinating job of amassing evidence of Earhart's androgyny, but she gets sidetracked by a typical feminist obsession: Why, she demands, did no one call Lindbergh "Lord Earhart...
...Far too often a model based on, and mainly available to, privileged members of the white middle class was held up as a universally attainable ideal...
...Not only were all the popular heroines of the inter-war period white, but they generally came from Protestant backgrounds...
...She concludes that women's equality is, like Earhart and the remains of her plane, "still missing...
...When the daring lady's family forbade her to do it, Putnam launched a search for another woman to take her place...
...It isn't a very nice story...
...What happened to her the last few minutes...
...She was merely a passenger on the flight, but women had only had the vote for eight years...
...For a detailed account of her disappearance we The American Spectator April / May 1994 must turn to Lost Star, by Randall Brink, a former commercial pilot and aviation editor who pitted himself against the laughably named Freedom of Information Act to discover the truth about the two persistent rumors: (1) Earhart was spying for Franklin D. Roosevelt, and (2) she was captured by the Japanese and brainwashed into serving as the radio propagandist called "Tokyo Rose...
...Not surprisingly, Ware objects to this word, so she calls androgyny "gender blending," which means the same thing...
...After her transatlantic solo flight in 1931 she entered the cult of post-suffrage heroines: Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel...
...This is Affirmative Action history with a vengeance, and Viola cannot resist reminding us that Campbell, born to a Portuguese immigrant mother, is not only one of the few Indians ever elected to the Senate, but also "the first U.S...
...with keeping feminism alive in the post-suffrage era, but believes that what she calls their "liberal feminism," based as it was on individual achievement, "did little to inspire women collectively and failed to challenge the prevailing gender system...
...Our fearless leader delivered a weird clenched-fist salute as the horseman rode past, face painted, lance in handnew-minted Colorado senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, his warbonnet's feathers symbolizing not authentic war deeds but the somewhat less hazardous victories of competitive judo...
...One Navy warehouse in an Indiana 24 HR...
...Brink promises more than he delivers, O POLITICAL ZINGERS (4 check assortment) ^ PRO-LIFE ZINGERS (4 check assortment)but he promises it in a gripping narrative and the disappointments are not his fault...
...These women played a part in the survival of a feminist impulse without their even having to swear allegiance to the cause," she sniffs...
...But in 1993 it was the Indian of Bill Clinton's P.C...
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...Her big chance came in 1928 when she was employed as a social worker in Boston...
...built for Amelia on tiny Howland Island...
...the first woman to fly across the Atlantic...
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...Idealists who go all gulpy and we-the-peoplish over images of citizens happily browsing at will through any pile of government documents that strikes their fancy will be devastated by Brink's account of his struggles to pry loose the pertinent material...
...One part deposit slips and check register are included in each order...
...In other words, they were not willing to rip up the social fabric in the name of outcome-based equality...
...It sounds to me as if the woman might have lived in New York, and of course she had been fiendishly well-coached, but Amelia—never...
...Another problem with Brink's account is his conflicting descriptions ofthe landing field the U.S...
...Born in 1897 in Atchison, Kansas, to an upper-crust mother who married beneath her, Amelia remained above the battle as her alcoholic father drank up the family fortune...
...And if so, would he have wanted Amelia found...
...Amelia Earhart had the intriguing distinction of being the only female oddball ever to bring conformist America to its knees in worship...
...He could have written a novel instead...
...On page 75 he writes: To this day, although three impacted coral runways remain as firm and perfectly smooth as asphalt (the longest a mile long), no airplane has ever touched down on the airfield at Howland...
...They squirt out of her like ink from a squid...
...A "gender feminist," Ware credits Earhart & Co...
...The real fault, Ware concludes, lay with the conservative politics of the 1920s and the "increased cultural and social imperatives toward heterosexuality" that made career women suspicious of the good old days of same-sex this and that...
...Not only that, she was photographed fingering the pearls—a quintessentially feminine gesture...
...A mad genius of public relations, he was intrigued by stories of "the social worker with a pilot's license" and struck by Amelia's physical resemblance to Charles Lindbergh, who had flown the Atlantic the previous year...
...The most dramatic concern the drinking problem of Jim Noonan, Earhart's navigator on the last flight...
...I hope I've just got to never make it public...
...Unfortunately, that introductory premise Wayne Michael Sad' is the author of The Little Bighorn Campaign, March-September 1876, and co-editor of The Custer/Little Bighorn Battlefield Advocate...
...and columnist Dorothy Thompson...
...She correctly identifies the quality as the secret of Earhart's appeal...
Vol. 27 • April 1994 • No. 45
