Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late that night the News appeared with a full front-page picture of Baby Lindbergh (and with the comment that the baby looked less like its father than like its mother). This News picture looked exactly like the pose given the A. P. It bore no credit line. A few hours afterward the Mirror, American, Journal and Graphic were on the streets, each flaunting a front-page picture apparently identical to the one in the News. The four papers quoted no source, but one way of obtaining the picture would have been to photograph the front-page of the News...
...Curtiss Condor biplane, taxiing to its hangar at a Long Island airport, suddenly ground looped, plowed into a crowd of holiday spectators. The whirling propellers killed a man and a wife. The plane bore the insignia of T. A. T.-Maddux Air Lines. Col. Lindbergh is technical adviser of T. A. T.-Maddux. Daily News screamed in full width headlines: LINDBERGH LINER KILLS...
Only Mrs. Wiley, the Anna Campbell Kelton who married him in 1911 when he was 66 after aiding him for years at the Department of Agriculture, who bore him two sons and to whom he dedicated his Autobiography, realized last month that Dr. Wiley was sick unto death, and in no fit condition to testify...
...sister Elizabeth Jane also became a doctor, married a doctor, bore Harvey Wiley Corbett, famed Manhattan architect...
...will get a fine kick out of it, as inspired prophet of coming events. About Mr. Hughes' literary tastes he says: "For the past twenty-four years Mr. Hughes has cultivated Dumas, and knows more about Athos, Porthos, D'Artagnan and Aramis than did the mothers who bore them...