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...Spirit of St. Louis, a Book-of-the-Month Club choice for September, Airman Lindbergh. 51, gives a full and earnest account of how he planned and piloted his plane to international fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An American Epic | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

Last week an Air Force court-martial in Korea sentenced the officer of the guard, Lieut. George Schreiber, 25, to life imprisonment. At the same time, the life sentence of Airman Thomas L. Kinder, 21, the guard who fired the fatal shot, was reduced to two years. No one questioned the sentences, or the military's right to try Kinder and Schreiber. who are still in the Air Force. But the case of Bob Toth, a civilian, is a different matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Crucial Case of Murder | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

...continue for months to come. The latest word is that the Queen, the Queen Mother and Margaret herself have agreed to do nothing until the Queen and Philip return from a visit to Australia next May. The royal family apparently hopes that by then Margaret's ardor for Airman Townsend-now neatly isolated in an air attache's job in Brussels -will have cooled. Margaret apparently hopes that her steadfast devotion to Townsend will be so plain to everyone that a way will be found to bless the marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blood of the Battenbergs | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...propriety of even discussing it. Unabashed, London's tabloid Daily Mirror charged boldly into the heart of the matter by conducting a poll of its readers. Of 70,142 Mirror readers who wrote in, 67,907 urged that Princess Margaret be allowed to marry her divorced airman if she wished to; 2,235 said that she should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Princess & Her Public | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...wing commander of the R.A.F. in Malaya brought Mrs. Elizabeth Parsons the news: her airman husband, Flight Lieut. D. R. Parsons, had just been killed in a bombing strike on the Malayan Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: A Most Exceptional Case | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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