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...Charles Augustus Pratt Jr., of New Bedford...
Seven years ago Augustus D. Juilliard, Manhattan textile manufacturer, died, leaving some $20,000,000 as the largest bequest ever made to music...
Michigan. Mayor John W. Smith of Detroit called for support from drinkers, bootleggers, "speakeasy" men. Candidate John C. Lodge, grand-uncle of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, called for no one's support. He made no speeches, signed no campaign literature, made no promises. His friends elected him Mayor of Detroit by a margin of 12,188 votes. Mayor-elect Lodge announced he would not sweep Mayor Smith's appointees out of office wholesale, would not countenance Prohibition "snooping...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh went last week to aviation school. By direction of President Coolidge, he was assigned to active duty with the Army Air corps at Selfridge Field, Mich. He will fly the latest army pursuit plane; participating as an ordinary military pilot in routine gunnery training exercises; concentrating on machine gunnery fire at stationary targets and targets towed by other planes...
...bowed low as if for great applause, smiling. Now, at 62, there was little voice, little vitality for a Troubadour song, for d'Hardelet's "Lesson of the Fan," for "Swanee River" and "The Spirit of the Air," words and music by herself, dedicated to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. "L'amour est une oiseau rebelle. . . ." The customers at the Palace sat alert for the "Habanera" of the World's Greatest Carmen, but the high comb would not stay in the thin bobbed hair, and the flaming shawl was strangely dull. True there was a hint...