Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California's Arlett, Chicago's Ridenhour and a host of other more or less militant collegiate editors who have incurred the wrath of their institutional administrations, forgets a host of professionals who far outshine the college editors in sensationalism. Balance the above list with the tabloidal handling of the Lindbergh case, with the New York Times' high powered and exclusively sensational reports of Admiral Byrd's progress in the frozen wastes, and with the fevered and unreliable dispatches to the metropolitan dailies from the World War front, which were rushed into extras by the most conservative publishers and hawked about...
With the Captain was a lanky young woman of cultured mien. Her tousled blonde mop, high cheek bones and wide, tight mouth made her look remarkably like Charles Augustus Lindbergh, particularly when her hat was off. Her name was Amelia Earhart. She was working in a Boston settlement house but she had learned in California how to fly. With admonitions to keep her hat off as much as possible Publisher Putnam, whom Amelia Earhart soon learned to call "G. P." or "Gip," bore her off to Mrs. Guest. She got the job. Few months later "G. P." was able...
...rarely been far in the background of her career. He had backed her flying and, astute about publicity, nurtured her fame when she by her reticence might have let it languish. Two years ago he married her. Now she was flying toward Paris on the fifth anniversary of Lindbergh's flight...
...newsreel company's plane hurried to meet her, flew her to London to sleep at Ambassador Mellon's house, even as Lindbergh slept at Herrick...
...this anniversary, Col. Lindbergh was at his Hopewell, N. J. home, watching sleuths re-enact the kidnapping of his baby...