Word: lindbergh
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...Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh...
...well-stocked with self-confidence, he took just half an hour to talk himself into a job on the New York Herald (now the Herald Tribune). By 1928, he was city editor. And for seven loud years, he steered the newsroom through a stirring and gaudy time. Speakeasies flourished. Lindbergh had just hopped the Atlantic; Babe Ruth had just hit 60 home runs. J. Pierpont Morgan posed for photographers with a lady midget in his lap. Resting peacefully in his room at the Park Central Hotel, Manhattan Gambler Arnold Rothstein was dispatched by a murderer's bullet...
...Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh...
Died. Harry F. Reutlinger, 66, longtime newsman on Hearst's Chicago American, who started as a copy boy in 1914 and, on the strength of such scoops as the Black Sox baseball scandal and the Lindbergh kidnaping ransom note, climbed to city editor (1936-51) and managing editor (1951-60); of cancer; in Chicago. In 1938, guessing that a daredevilish pilot named Douglas Corrigan might not fly to Los Angeles from New York as he had told civil aeronautics officials, Reutlinger put in transatlantic phone calls to major Irish airports. Reaching Corrigan just after the flyer landed his single...