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20 [[image - black & white photograph of Amelia Earhart and Carl Allen having a discussion at the Miami airport]] [[caption]]Under a wing, with a gentle Florida breeze, Carl Allen talks with wayfaring Amelia Earhart at Miami airport(20) before her second and last attempt to fly around the world. May, 1937, photograph was taken by husband, George Palmer Putnam.[[caption]] 21 [[image - black & white photograph of Carl Allen working at his typewriter Aboard a San Francisco-Manila Clipper flight, October, 1936]] Carl Beaty Allen Being a pioneer of the printed word is not easy. The editorial contributions of Carl Allen have done much to bring the scope and wonder of aviation to millions of readers. His colleagues--and words of praise from fellow journalists are hard to come by-- considered him the best aviation news reporter in the country, "probably." Probably or not, Carl had one beautiful batting average! He was aviation editor for the New York World from 1923 to 1931, aviation editor for the New York World-Telegram from 1931 through 1934, and held the same position with the New York Herald Tribune from '34 through 1953. He was friend, confident, and professional wet nurse to a small army of greats and near-greats. "C.B.," as he was called, had the charm of a prince, and a lasting capacity for friendships. One famed aviatrix of the late 1920s and early '30s said of him, "I do not know of any more honest person. He never had a bite of meanness in him." In March, 1927, C.B. had a story in his paper about a chap named Lindbergh, an airmail pilot from west of the Mississippi. He had filed an entry for the TransAtlantic race. Something about he planned to make the flight alone. No one paid it much attention. "I always enjoyed covering the trophy races," C.B. said. It was the special pleasure of a reporter who was also a pilot. [[image - small drawing of a propeller]] Carl Beaty Allen: born Moorefield, West Va., July 18, 1896
