Word: aeronauticana
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When Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in 1927, no one was more excited than a large lady who lives on Manhattan's Park Avenue and keeps a vast collection of aeronauticana. The Park Avenue lady proceeded to surround herself with Lindbergh portraits. She owns a cup & saucer used on the first Graf Zeppelin flight. Her name is Bella Landauer and she is the wife of Isidor Nathan Landauer who makes Sealpacker-chiefs. Last week at Manhattan's Old Print Shop Mrs. Landauer exhibited one of her prize possessions-a collection of aeronautical songs...
...that the aerial wedding stunt is something like 100 years old. Publicly-loving couples of the 19th Century used to get married in balloons decked with satin, festooned with ribbons and banners. Historians of these phenomena are Mrs. Bella C. Landauer, Manhattan bibliophile and only important woman collector of aeronauticana, and Harry Bischoff Weiss, associate editor of the American Book Collector...
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