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...fact that Olson plays defense has made it possible to avoid sibling rivalry while playing on the same team as his younger brother, Greg, something he has done ever since his junior year at Hopkins Lindbergh High School...
...summer of 1936, Helms covered America's greatest hero, Charles Lindbergh, who became frightened by German air might after Hermann Göring showed him the huge air force he was building. That September, Helms was in Nuremberg at the Nazi Party Congress, where uniformed ranks roared their devotion to Hitler and flights of new bombers thundered endlessly overhead. In all his subsequent years in and around power, Helms has never seen anything quite like...
Analysis of the election will continue for weeks and months to come, but at week's end our political correspondents could all echo MacNeil as he summed up: "I feel like Lindbergh as he approached Paris. In his words, 'I've got some gas left, but I might as well stop here...
...Flambeur seems wonderfully ancient because it is. The film was made back in 1955, which means Lindbergh, Le Car and Yoplait had an easier time getting across the Atlantic. The director and co-screenwriter Jean-Pierre Melville (who died in 1973) was born Grumbach, but his passion for America led him to change his name in honor of the great American author...
DIED. Tubal Claude Ryan, 84, inventive aviation designer whose Ryan Airlines Inc. built Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis in 60 days in 1927 for $15,000; in San Diego. A complete flying enthusiast, Ryan created and manufactured the first U.S. high-wing monoplane (the M-1), established the first regularly scheduled year-round passenger airline in the U.S., and ran an aeronautical school that trained more than 10,000 World War II pilots. During the Viet Nam War, he provided pilotless jet spy planes and pioneered the V/STOL, a vertical-and short-takeoff-and-landing plane...