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Reporting. Best reporting job the Pulitzer judges spotted this year was turned in by spectacled Lauren D. ("Deac") Lyman of the New York Times, who learned of the Lindberghs' flight to England, kept it a secret four days, scooped the country after they put to sea (TIME, Jan. 6). Exclusive publication of this big story was regarded as a personal favor from Colonel Lindbergh to Reporter Lyman. who in 1927 made the Times's first contact with obscure young Aviator Lindbergh before he flew to Paris. Reporter Lyman is $1,000 richer for his pains...
...Lindbergh had offered no public explanation of his departure, and radiograms sent to him on the American Importer were returned with the notation "Addressee not aboard," the Times' story remained the scripture on which the week's exegesis was built. It was written by bespectacled Lauren D. ("Deac") Lyman, who as the Times' aviation editor befriended obscure young Aviator Lindbergh before his flight to Paris in 1927. Throughout the week Reporter Lyman stoutly refused to reveal the source of his scoop. But Colonel Lindbergh's hatred of certain sensational newspapers, and his corresponding affection...
...story RCA Building for a bargain-driving tenant. National Broadcasting Co. With everything in readiness despite a last-minute flurry of confusion, one rainy night last week NBC dedicated its new quarters with a gala program. Bland words were spoken by NBC's President Merlin Hall ("Deac") Aylesworth, RCA's Board Chairman James Guthrie Harbord, GE's Board Chairman Owen D. Young, RCA's President David Sarnoff (speaking from London) and Sir John Reith, director-general of British Broadcasting Corp. with whom the tycoons chatted across the sea. Some 1,200 invited guests, mostly radio advertisers...