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...roaring '203 Roosevelt Field, only 20 miles from Manhattan's Times Square, was America's "Cradle of Aviation." There one rainy dawn in May, 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh took off for Paris; within the next 40 days Clarence Chamberlin set out for Berlin and Richard Evelyn Byrd took off for the Continent, landing in the French surf. Roosevelt saw Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly off in the Winnie Mae one June day in 1931, return eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes later, having set a new round-the-world mark; seven years later Douglas Corrigan roared...
Reischauer speaking before an H.L.U. forum in the Lowell Junior Common Room, directly contradicted William Henry Chamberlin, editor of the "New Leader." Chamberlin had said that the war in Korea "exploded the whole idea of collective security that is the basis...
...Chamberlin and Reischauer also conflicted over disposition of anti-Communist North Korean prisoners. Reischauer felt that the Communists misunderstood the prisoners' wishes. "To them, all common people were on their side. This violent refusal to return is most embarrassing to the Reds, and a potent propaganda weapon...
...Chamberlin was diametrically opposed to this view, and said, "We cannot in good conscience admit the men who have tortured and killed so many humans...
Working round the clock, Ryan gets The Spirit of St. Louis built in 60 days. In the meanwhile, Flyers Clarence Chamberlin and Bert Acosta, preparing for a hop of their own, set a new endurance record, staying aloft 51 hrs. 11 min. 25 sec. Lindbergh frets, but death, accidents and delay soon begin to scratch the other entries. Two Navy pilots nose into a swamp on take-off and are killed. Chamberlin damages his Bellanca in a routine test flight. Commander Richard E. Byrd, with his Fokker and four-man crew all set, waits at Roosevelt Field for the word...