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...Charles Augustus Lindbergh called on War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, offered to serve his country as a soldier, preferably in the Air Corps. Mr. Stimson gave Citizen Lindbergh a job as a civilian expert, doing research on a mysterious "commercial project" for the War Department...
Last week reality caught up with Charles Augustus Lindbergh. From his hideaway on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., he offered his services to the Army Air Corps from which he resigned last April, after Frank lin Roosevelt had pegged him as a new-day "Copperhead." At his age (40 next month), Lindbergh probably could not get a job as a combat flyer. If he were given a commission-for which, as a new applicant, he would have to wait his turn-he could serve his country usefully as a specialist in aviation. He knows a lot more about that subject...
...Major Augustus Thorndike, associate in Surgery, Surgeon to the Department of Hygiene, and Surgeon to the Harvard Athletic Association, will desert his post as chief medico at Soldiers Field in order to become assistant chief of the Surgical Service of the Base Hospital Unit...
...Prolonged Study." Most apathetic spot in the country was the territory served by isolationist Chicago Tribune, where the Tribune's editorials and Charles Augustus Lindbergh's shrill "they can't touch us" had all but drowned out OCD's weak little toot. Last week the Midwest had just begun to yawn and stretch. In Wisconsin it was announced that plans for civilian defense were going to be given "prolonged study." St. Louis declared that it would get around this week to enrolling some 50,000 volunteers which it figured it might need...
Harvard's other stellar injury victim, Loren Mackinney, did not exert himself beyond a little light work, but he will be ready for Princeton Saturday without doubt, according to Dr. Augustus Thorndike...