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That night, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh slept in the temporary White House at Dupont Circle...
...shining. King George, Queen Mary and Edward of Wales sat in a box. Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his host, Lord Lonsdale, sat in another. A man with a megaphone at a crossroad was announcing the second coming of the Lord and flaying gambling. Approximately every fifth person in Great Britain was gambling. A dentist's assistant in Capetown, South Africa, had a valuable slip of paper in his pocket. Some 300,000 people were watching 23 horses. It was Derby Day at Epsom Downs, where hills scallop the landscape and a dimple among them makes a natural bowl...
Porter. New York Central officials deny that there is any distinction between Century sections. There is, they say, no "first," no "last," save as the trains are spaced a block* or two apart on the runs. Nevertheless, should Calvin Coolidge or George V or Charles Augustus Lindbergh signify a desire to travel as a private citizen (i. e. not in a private car) between Chicago and Manhattan, he would undoubtedly be assigned space on the section conducted by Conductor Kennedy or Conductor Hendrix, the section called "first" only for convenience, perhaps, but invariably attended...
...training in the Army during Wartime, barnstorming, stunt flying. Then he got a backer and a superbly designed Wright-Bellanca monoplane. He shattered the endurance record by remaining in the air (with chunky Bert Acosta) for 51 hours. He was ready to conquer the Atlantic long before Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh came out of the West, but bickerings disturbed his camp...
Inhabitants of France, Belgium, England and the U. S., heaping glory, poetry and publicity upon 25-year-old Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh, found him so natural and so tactful that they predicted he would never unmake his fame. Was not the same immortality predicted for 61-year-old Admiral George Dewey...