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...sensitive Essay on Charles Lindbergh [May 26]. God love and bless the man for his many contributions to mankind and for the agony he so nobly endured. Bad cess to his detractors...
...bitterly disappointed with the conclusions you reach. To admit Lindbergh's admiration for and connections with Hitler's Germany and Nazism, then to label this aviator "a great man" and "a hero," is a fantastic journalistic somersault. Physical courage (or foolhardiness) is not to be equated with intellectual maturity. And political imbecility does not create a hero in any democracy...
...first glance, the 27th Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport seemed to belong to the U.S. Not only was the U.S. exhibit the biggest around, but it had an extra impact: it was a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's historic transatlantic hop to that very same airfield...
...Lindbergh is still almost pathological about guarding his privacy, though age and a receding hairline have made him almost indistinguishable from other commuters in Darien, Conn., where he has lived in recent years. He has five grown children (three sons, two daughters). Occasionally he appears in Washington's Smithsonian Institution and gazes up at the Spirit of St. Louis, dangling there, fragile but painstakingly guarded against rust and oblivion. He is seldom recognized. Yet any associate or friend who talks to a reporter about him is deprived of the light of his countenance. Typically, he refused to have...
...difficult man. A gifted man. Probably a great man. But certainly a hero. The usual fate of heroes is to be frozen in history at the moment of their triumph. At 65, Lindbergh may find the 25-year-old boy as awkwardly remote as would any other aging hero facing his youth. Yet it is significant that he was able to move on to do other things, live other lives-to be active, useful and himself. The quiet foreground formed by his recent years renders the memory all the brighter: the memory of the youth with the world...