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...fellow aeronauts made the first transatlantic crossing in the silvery Double Eagle II; in a balloon crash; in Brückenau, West Germany. After amassing a mining fortune, Anderson took up ballooning as "a way of entering history." In his final flight, Anderson and frequent Co-Pilot Don Ida, 49, were desperately trying to land before drifting into East Germany when their gondola became detached and the two adventurers plunged 2,000 ft. to their deaths...
Experts who had never met the winsome lady read the correspondence and found it compelling. "These new letters," said Poet Carl Sandburg, perhaps Lincoln's most famous biographer, "seem entirely authentic? and preciously and wonderfully coordinate and chime with all else known of Lincoln." Muckraking Journalist Ida M. Tarbell, who had also written a Lincoln biography, wrote to Sedgwick: "You have an amazing set of true Lincoln documents?the most extraordinary that have come to us in many, many years." After publication of the Atlantic's first installment, however, a storm of criticism erupted. "You are putting over...
...Social Security check No.1 for $22.54 went in January to Ida Fuller of Brattleboro Vt. who had paid a total or $22 in Social Security taxes. Fuller drew her last monthly check for $112.60 in December 1974 shorty after her 100th birthday. By then she had collected $20,944.42 in return for her $22. *Secretary of the treasury Donald Regan, Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan, and secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker
...past year, the Soviets have singled him out for punishment by slow starvation. After a closely monitored two-hour meeting with Shcharansky in early January his mother, Ida Milgrom, reported: "He looked so pale and so thin. For one year he has been starving. If he remains in this present situation he won't survive...
...family, for instance, one learns that his mother was a delicate child, "spoiled by her gaunt mother, who would secretly give her the giblets on the rare occasions when there was a chicken." Further on, the poultry perspective continues, as one finds Odets's mother "still confiding to Ida Mae her longing for her dead mother (who had saved bits of chicken...