Fred Noonan an interest in starting a navigation school. In March, he divorced his wife, Josie, in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Two weeks later, he married Mary Beatrice Martinelli (born Passadori) of Oakland, California. Noonan was rumored to be a heavy drinker. That was fairly common during this era and there is no contemporary evidence Noonan was an alcoholic, although decades later, a few writers and others made some hearsay claims that he was. Amelia Earhart met Noonan through mutual connections in the Los Angeles aviation community and chose him to serve as her navigator on her World Flight in the Lockheed Electra
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?, internationally released as Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?, is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Ettore Scola. Production of the film started in 1965, with the working title "Mister Sabatini, suppongo" ("Mister Sabatini, I suppose"). It inaugurated in Italy a brief vogue of kilometric titles. The film was the sixth highest grossing release at the Italian box office in the 1968/69 season. The