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Critic John Ciardi's boorish assault on Anne Lindbergh's verse [Feb. 18] sounds suspiciously like the hysterical protest of one who fears that readers may be lured away from the jabberwocky school of modern verse, of which he considers himself the grand high panjandrum...
...Spirit of St. Louis (Leland Hayward-Billy Wilder; Warner). Based on Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Pulitzer Prizewinning book (TIME, Sept. 14, 1953) -which was sold to Producer Leland Hayward and Director Billy Wilder for a share of the picture's profits-this excellent film takes as its story line the simple, glorious trajectory of the flight itself. The essential facts of Lindbergh's early life-he was the son of a well-known Minnesota Congressman, barnstormed as a boy pilot, made top of his class as an Army flying cadet, was flying the mail between St. Louis...
Once the spectator has caught the tail of Lindbergh's kite, he will hardly dare to let go-Director Wilder sees to that. He worries the last quiver of excitement from the facts-from the time Lindbergh fell asleep in mid-Atlantic, from the fishing boat he hailed ("Which way is Ireland?"), from the landfall at Ireland's Dingle Bay, less than three miles off course after 3,000 miles of flight by dead reckoning. And always there is the thrilling sight of the little plane as it flashes through the air as clean as a sword...
...hoking do not seriously impair the moviegoer's sense that he is sharing in the execution of a great and significant event. And Actor Stewart, for all his professional, 48-year-old boyishness, succeeds almost continuously in suggesting what all the world sensed at the time: that Lindbergh's flight was not the mere physical adventure of a rash young "flying fool," but rather a journey of the spirit, in which, as in the pattern of all progress, one brave man proved himself for all mankind as the paraclete of a new possibility...
Warner Bros, polled the audience at a sneak preview of The Spirit of St. Louis, found with pained surprise that hardly anyone under 40 knew or cared anything about Charles A. Lindbergh (now 55) or his solo flight across the Atlantic 30 years ago. Determined that the younger generation should not confuse the Lone Eagle with Sitting Bull, or with Jimmy Stewart, 47, the film's Lindbergh, the studio detailed Tab Hunter, 25 (who does not appear in Spirit), to tout the movie in high schools and colleges, and give a from-the-heart sell to the Missile...