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...White House portico rolled a borrowed automobile. Crowds gaped at the front seat, stacked with two suitcases and a worn valise, and at the back seat, occupied by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh & Wife. They got out, entered the White House. Governor Leslie of Indi- ana, loitering in the lobby, stepped forward for a handshake. Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh marched on to the Executive Offices where President Hoover waited for them. Col. Lindbergh placed himself at the President's left. Government officials connected with aviation pressed close to watch President Hoover pull out a large $1,500 gold medal* voted by Congress...
...Harry Augustus Garfield, president of Williams College, and Mrs. Garfield went for their first airplane ride, soared over the Berkshire Hills. Their pilot: Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, a speaker at the Williamstown Institute of Politics...
Heroes at the luncheon included Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, first non-stop trans Atlantic aviator, who flew with the late Sir John Alcock from Newfoundland to Ireland eight years before Lindbergh; slightly grizzled Louis Bleriot, first to fly the English Channel, now a millionaire French planemaker; Squadron Leader Augustus H. Orlebar, holder of the world's speed record (357.7 m. p. h.); Flight Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn, winner of the Schneider Cup (1929). Wingless heroes included Herbert Wilbur ("Bunny") Austin, British tennis player; Robert Cedric Sherriff, insurance broker, author of Journey's End; John L. Baird, inventor...
...Colonel Roscoe Turner. Average flying time was 179 m.p.h., sometimes as high as 240. Pilot Hawks complained of headwinds over most of the course, varying between 20 and 30 m.p.h. He prepared to attack the west-east record of 14 hr. 45 min. set last Easter by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh with Mrs. Lindbergh...
Lest any doubt remain in the minds of U. S. newspapermen just why it is that Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh disapproves of certain U. S. newspapers.* Editor Marlen Edwin Pew of Editor & Publisher (trade weekly) last week reported a talk which "I chanced to have . . . with the best-known, most-loved young man of this generation...