Word: jon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American. He is apt to receive reporters in his underwear, reading a mystery novel. At various times he has played a ukulele, guitar, saxophone. The golf-bug has bitten him. Nothing is more fun for him than to roar out a lusty song (favorite: My Name Is Jon Jonson, I Come From Wisconsin), especially at formal dinners. At parties he sits on the floor if he can. When he drinks, it is not much; when he smokes, it is a Hatamen cigaret-cheap brand the coolies...
...France. When her late husband ran for the Senate from New Jersey she stumped the State for him. When her grandson, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped and murdered, she was a tower of strength to her family's morale, later stood guard over Grandson Jon Morrow Lindbergh. Last week, at 66, dainty-sturdy Mrs. Morrow was chosen for another man-sized job: acting president of Smith College...
After that other incidents meant little. Once photographers in an automobile crowded the Lindbergh car off a New Jersey road trying to get a shot at Baby Jon Lindbergh. Once there was another kidnap alarm because a canvas-covered truck, parked in front of the Morrow home in Englewood, drove away hastily when it attracted attention-police later discovered that it contained movie photographers. Finally on a December night in 1935 Charles Lindbergh and his family left the country. When they were at sea, his friend "Deke" Lyman of the New York Times broke the story of their exile...
...When Mrs. Lindbergh returned last month to the U. S. on the Champlain, during the voyage an International News photographer aboard, unobserved, took pictures of Jon and Land Lindbergh (born in England). He took to his office a series of shots worth $5,000 to any big U. S. newspaper. Because the Hearst press had been most criticized for its part in harrying Lindbergh out of the country, the pictures were suppressed. Clients were told they would be released only if Lindbergh okayed them for publication...
Among the Glamor Guys should be prolific Floyd Davis, Jon Whitcomb, Walter Klett, Gilbert Bundy, The New Yorker's Galbraith, and the Glamor Gal Ritchie (Barbara) Cooper...