Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3 9780988502512, 0988502518, 9780988502543, 0988502542
This fresh look at Hollywood's "Queen of Screwball," Carole Lombard, presents a first-ever examination of
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Prologue: All Uphill
1. A Perfectly Routine Friday Night
2. Perpetual Motion Machine
3. The Radiating Halo
4. The Long Road
5. A Long and Grim Weekend
6. Merely Physical
7. A Perfect Flying Experience
8. Inflexible Fate
9. Jimmy Donnally Lands His Plane
10. Calculated Mayhem
11. Flight 3 Is Down
12. A Man in a Man's Body
13. The Plane That Fell
14. Somber Hymns and Cold Marble
15. Hoping Against Hope
16. Certified Bombs
17. The Plain, Black Night
18. Malaise
19. Road King
20. A Flame to Many Moths
21. Fool's Errand
22. The VIPs
23. Gleaming Silver
24. The Coin Flip
25. The Computer
26. Stranded
27. The Glamorous Life
28. I Won't Be Coming Home
29. There's No Rush
30. Caring Enough to Climb a Mountain
31. The Entire Gang Showed Up
32. Groaning Pines
33. Unfixable
34. I Still See It in My Dreams
35. The Fatal Flaw
36. The Complication
37. Just a Few Yards Apart
38. All in a Day’s Work
39. The Little Boy Was Gone
40. Flying with Full Acceptance
41. The Under Side
42. Even the Unfortunates
43. The Cream of the Crop
44. Skyrocketing
45. Mangled
46. If I Can Do It, So Can You
Epilogue: High-Energy Impact
Fireball: The Story in Pictures
Chapter Notes
Selected Bibliography
About Robert Matzen
